Celebrating American Greatness in the Shadow of 9/11
Something really interesting has been going on over at Malpaso Productions, Clint Eastwood’s movie production company. The three most recent films Eastwood produced and directed […]
Something really interesting has been going on over at Malpaso Productions, Clint Eastwood’s movie production company. The three most recent films Eastwood produced and directed […]
President Trump has called for $1.8 billion over 10 years to build the wall securing our southern border. That amounts to a total of $18 […]
Common observation and a plain understanding is the source of all art. —Joshua Reynolds I hope you haven’t let anyone talk you out of seeing […]
About a century ago, the Progressives got busy in America just as the Communists got busy in Russia. For a moment, the Progressives were in […]
On Sunday, my wife and I went for a walk in a park located in an affluent area near where we live. We were struck […]
Are they doing it on purpose? Of course they are. America’s progressive elite has disdain for Americans who refuse to embrace their globalist, “borderless world,” and […]
To the extent that America may be said to have a central idea, common sense is the key to understanding it. America’s Founders used the […]
The Founders’ gift does not demand much of us. As citizen-sovereigns, we need to exercise common sense and hold dear the common good. Little more […]
In his article “Intellectuals and Thugs: the Russian Revolution,” George Friedman marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution of 1917 by analyzing the inherent […]
In my recent article, “What’s the Matter with Germany?” I argued that under the leadership of Germany, “Europe is committing ‘suicide by Islam.’” Adolf Hitler […]
What is common sense and why does it seem to be so uncommon today? Our country was founded on the basis of the self-evident truths […]
Germany is making trouble again. This time it is not sending young men in uniform swarming across its borders to conquer Europe. Instead, it is […]
In a previous article at American Greatness, I addressed the history of American higher education from the Founding until our time. This history, I suggested, […]
It happened on campus. Once upon a time, the foundation of an American college education was common sense. Common sense realism was the philosophy young […]
Please don’t misunderstand. If you haven’t already seen the movie, my intention is not to persuade you to watch it. It is not even to […]
“Will our Republic survive?” It is a fitting question for Memorial Day. For, as Abraham Lincoln noted in his Gettysburg Address, “It is for us […]
Our political reality is no longer Left versus Right. It is now the Left versus common sense—and that change is changing voting patterns in this […]
I have a friend who is a retired public school teacher. She is very likeable and in some areas an independent thinker. One day in […]
I recently received an e-mail—you may have seen it, too—from a person who has been a prominent spokesman for the GOP and now is a […]
I suppose we must prepare ourselves for more pseudo-intellectual drivel about the Enlightenment from people who oppose Donald Trump. David Brooks of the New York […]