“A Culture of Snitching” is the Result of the Failures in American Civic Education
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 […]
Robert Curry: Americanism Is In Our Bones, If Not In Our Intellects
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 […]
Making Aliens of Our Own Citizens
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 […]
When You Just “Can’t Even”
“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 […]
The Intellectual and Spiritual Poverty at the Heart of the Phony Diversity Cult
When Providence College Professor of English, Anthony Esolen, wrote an article in September for Crisis Magazine detailing the poverty of spirit and intellect at work behind […]
Why Actors Shouldn’t Command Attention When They’re Off Script
That Vice President-elect Mike Pence was booed and subjected to an obnoxious harangue last night at a performance of the Broadway production, Hamilton, is by now old […]
Three Reflections on the Post-Election Reaction
Some scattered thoughts on the reaction of the Left to the Trump victory: 1) I went to bed last night as reports were coming in from Los […]
Freedom in the Absence of Virtue
Conservatives fret rightly about the state of popular culture, education, declining civility, and the effects these things combined have on Americans’ capacity to govern themselves. […]
Constitutional Piety Rings Hollow if it Can’t Resonate with Today’s Issues
When defending Donald Trump and Trump’s supporters from those who claim to have an earnest concern for “conservatism” and “conservative principles,” a common theme American […]
After this Election Conservatism Won’t be the Same
American Greatness Contributing editor, Seth Leibsohn, hosted Claremont Review of Books editor (as well as a signer of theScholars and Writers for Trumpstatement), Charles Kesler, […]
Hillary Clinton as Mitt Romney
If you tuned in to last night’s debate because you were expecting a substantive examination of the great issues facing our country and about which […]
Alt-Right Agonistes
Some months ago, Communist Party USA chairman John Bachtell endorsed Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders for president. The announcement received little fanfare and one is […]
The 9/11 Awakening That Still Needs to Happen
Five years ago, on what was the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks on our country, I offered this reflection as I recalled the […]
American Candidates Abroad
It is difficult to imagine a better day on the campaign trail for Donald Trump than August 31, 2016. Future historians will recall it as […]
A Cosmopolitain Hillbilly Tries to Understand the Race Problem in America
When I saw that J.D. Vance, the author of the widely (and justly) acclaimed Hillbilly Elegy, had written an essay examining why racial relations in […]
A Tale of Two Kinds of White Racists (Not to Mention those of Other Hues)
Elsewhere on our site,Ken Masugiwrites about Donald Trump’s impressive speech last week in Milwaukeewhich, in addition to addressing the important question of law and order, […]
Trump Speak 101
American GreatnessManaging Editor,Ben Boychuk,writes a column in the Sacramento Beeexploring the many supposed “gaffes” of the Trump campaign and begins to note in them a […]
What the Failures of American Indian Policy Can Teach Us About the Injustice of Divisive Tribalism
Naomi Schaefer Riley’snewly-released book,The New Trail of Tears: How Washington Is Destroying American Indians,looks to be more than just an interesting examination of an isolated […]
Free Trade Ideologues Morph into a Faction
David Griswold, a fellow at George Mason University’s free-marketMercatus Center, had an op-ed in the Los Angeles Timeson Mondayarguing that globalization has not hurtU.S.manufacturing but, […]
John Marini explains the American Crisis: Part 1
An article at the Claremont Review of Books by John Marini, the scholar who literally wrote the book on the ways the administrative state is […]