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 Arabic culture and language to use for the American government after 9/11 by becoming a founding member of the Department of Homeland Security. But as the years advanced, Haney noticed that
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 disaster for the Democrats. Olsen is spot on when he argues that Democrats, whether they mean to regain lost electoral ground or to lay claim to new ground, will have
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 political party—nay, your entire sense of purpose and justice in the world—has betrayed you as a fraud. The thing you championed and nurtured and fertilized with a care better spent
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 Washington, D.C., at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Chris had a seat on "Radio Row" through his gig as the Chris half of the Phoenix area drive-time program, "The
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 Donald Trump was considered a serious presidential contender—John Marini was formulating the arguments that would culminate in what remains the most powerful and the best affirmative case for Trump. Marini’s
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 everyone from statesmen, to popes, and intellectuals, to the common man. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, praised him and Pope John Paul II called him a friend. He was wise, but
Mark Steyn joined Chris Buskirk today on the Seth and Chris Show to discuss many ways the Left's long march through the institutions has undermined American education and worked to erode civic trust. This has had a bad effect not just in America, but even in terms of the example America sets for the rest
Robert Curry—American Greatness contributor and author of Common Sense Nation: Unlocking the Forgotten Power of the American Idea—appeared on the Seth and Chris Show yesterday to discuss his recent article, "Replacing Scalia and Replacing Constitutional Rights." The theme of Curry's work may help us to understand how we, the American people, can begin once again, to exercise
Liberty without civic understanding and virtue remains impossible. American Greatness publisher Chris Buskirk and contributing editor Seth Leibsohn on Tuesday featured George Mason School of Law professor, F.H. Buckley on their radio show to discuss his recent New York Post column, "How Trump Can End Brainwashing on US Campuses." The article is a reflection on this newly
"Saturday Night Live" no longer airs before my bedtime and, I'm told, it's most often no longer funny. But thanks to YouTube (and a few friends with insomnia), I've discovered at least a couple of pretty cutting and amusing bits of cultural commentary. Take this now famous example: https://youtu.be/vKOb-kmOgpI And my new personal favorite: https://youtu.be/Ef_33wIEeds But
