Accommodation Is Capitulation
The fight over new civics education standards isn’t a mere academic squabble. It’s about resisting and rejecting a corrosive left-wing view of America.
A Political, Not an Academic Argument
Fonte responds to Allen: “The arguments over Educating for American Democracy and the controversies over the teaching and learning of history and civics in our schools are not academic arguments.”
No To Conservative Accommodationism
The Right concedes ground to the woke revolution and gives bipartisan legitimacy to a progressive project that aims to diminish the moral capital of historic America.
Make Washington’s Birthday Great Again
It is called “President’s Day” and that implies that Millard Fillmore is as significant a chief executive as Washington.
Migration Crisis Overview: Americanists vs. Transformationists
Biden’s immigration policy represents an existential conflict; at stake is our life or death as a self-governing republic.
A Trojan Horse for Woke Education
The Educating for American Democracy project’s “action civics” is the latest in the Left’s efforts to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.”
What the Unholy Left-Right Alliance Undermining Immigration Enforcement Means for the 2020 Election
There is no doubt that the election on November 3 will have a momentous effect on all the issues related to immigration policy.
Why the Double Standard With Hungary?
What matters to transnational progressives is not “government by the consent of the governed,” but the elite consensus developed and refined in unelected judicial-administrative bureaucracies.
A Jaundiced Take on National Conservatism
Serious democratic conservatives in America, Britain, Israel, and Europe should be under no illusions about the contempt directed at them by Anne Applebaum and her bloc of liberal internationalists who claim to be the great arbiters of democracy in the world today.
Who Makes the ‘Rules’ in a ‘Rules-Based’ Liberal Global Order?
On both fronts, externally and internally, we are now involved in a conflict that will determine, not simply the direction of politics, but the existence of the democratic nation-state in America, Britain, the West, and throughout the world.
A Transformation of the American Regime?
Almost all observers agree that America is profoundly divided. This intense polarization has been described by the Claremont Institute’s Angelo Codevilla as a “cold civil […]
Making Immigration Great Again
In 1794 president George Washington wrote to Vice President John Adams on the necessity of assimilating immigrants to the new American republic’s way of life. […]
The Virtues of Patriotism
The elections to the European Parliament underway now through Sunday present a major war of ideas between the “Europe of Nations” and the “Europe of […]
Democratic Self-Government or Mass Migration?
Editor’s Note: The following is drawn from remarks delivered in late March at the Mathias Covinus Collegium International Conference on Migration in Budapest, Hungary. If […]
The ‘Trump Doctrine’ Is the Future of Conservative Foreign Policy
For the past two years we have seen the emergence of a coherent Trump doctrine in both words and deeds. align=”right” Weekend Long ReadThere is […]
Trump Explains Sovereignty and Ronald Radosh Loses It
My old friend Ronald Radosh, writing in the Daily Beast about President Trump’s recent United Nations speech, notes, “there was a critical word tucked into […]
Trump and Bolton Take On the International Criminal Court
Twenty years ago—the night of July 17-18, 1998 at the United Nations conference in Rome establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC), to be exact—an American […]
One Nation
Editor’s note: This essay appears in the Spring 2018 issue of the Claremont Review of Books. Reprinted by kind permission of the Claremont Institute. In 1993 the president of […]
Trump Enforces Immigration Law
Americans could view immigration policy three ways: Through the lens of a citizen, a client, or a consumer. First, there is the small r-republican view […]
Make Washington’s Birthday Great Again
We once celebrated the individual greatness of George Washington on his birthday, February 22. Historian James Thomas Flexner called George Washington the “indispensable man,” because […]