Subverting the Irrational Narrative of America
Christopher Flannery’s podcast “The American Story” works to dispel the irrational leftist narrative about America, one true and beautiful story at a time.
After the Flight 93 Election
Michael Anton, in the preface to his just released, After the Flight 93 Election: The Vote That Saved America and What We Still Have to Lose, […]
Democrats Have Become the Party of ‘Basic White Bitches’
Sometime around 2009, the term “basic bitch” or—with extra salt—“basic white bitch” began to creep into common American parlance. In essence, it means “a female […]
Slurping Reaganism from the Can
Cosmopolitan conservatives who think they can slurp Reaganism from the can don’t understand America, don’t understand politics, and don’t really like Americans. So why should […]
Still Confused About Why Trump Won?
An illustration for the still-perplexed.
John McCain: Fake Maverick
John McCain’s Republican Party is over, perhaps before it even got started. That’s the argument Daniel McCarthy makes at Spectator/USA. It is worth considering. McCain […]
Conservative Establishment Still Fails to Understand Trump
In the recent issue of Modern Age Frank Buckley has a fabulous essay detailing the many ways that the conservative establishment failed in 2016 (and is still […]
Why Paul Ryan Failed as a Politician
Ryan’s plans explained the price of everything but the value of nothing,” so concludes Henry Olsen in an important piece for the Manhattan Institute’s City […]
Outraged Federal Employees Shocked to Discover Elections Matter
Politico reports on the personal and professional woes of career bureaucrats—conditioned as they are to believe that their expertise and prejudices should, by right, govern […]
Every History Textbook My Kids Have Ever Brought Home
Looks in one way or another like this. This is one of those things that everyone who pays any attention and understands this stuff just […]
Leftist Generational Politics
Mackubin Thomas Owens, who is a sometime contributor to American Greatness, has written a terrific column at Providence Journal titled, “Celebrity Students Don’t Speak for […]
Can Normal People Live in California?
Tucker Carlson claims they can’t. I can assure him that some do, though increasingly, they do so unhappily and while looking for the exits. Not […]
Making Politics Possible Again
There is a remarkable assumption behind the argument that the best—maybe the only—reason to have voted for Donald J. Trump was that he “was better […]
Is the Department of Homeland Security Submitting to Jihad?
After an extensive career as a scientist working and studying in the Middle East, Philip Haney decided to put his extensive expertise and experience with […]
Make Democrats American Again!
Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Henry Olsen—one of the few analysts who correctly gauged the 2016 election results before they were in—predicts ongoing electoral […]
Democrats Just Can’t Quit Identity Politics
Imagine you’re a Democrat. Now imagine waking up on November 9, 2016 to the realization that your god is dead. The central idea animating your […]
CPAC, Chris Buskirk, and the Americanist Movement
American Greatness publisher Chris Buskirk spent the better part of this week in the belly of the beast, or at least near to it, in […]
Bannon Vindicates John Marini
Even before Michael Anton (writing as Publius Decius Mus) published the most famous essay of the 2016 campaign season, “The Flight 93 Election,”—indeed, even before […]
Michael Novak, RIP
It is with sadness that we at American Greatness note the passing of the accomplished writer, thinker, and theologian Michael Novak—a man whose influence extended to […]