What Donald Trump Can Learn From the Clintons
You have to hand it to the Clintons. They understand power. At least, Bill does. Hillary may be too much an ideologue to excel in […]
Trump Critics Exude Desperate Political Nihilism
I am glad that Donald Trump skipped the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday and instead went to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for a rally commemorating his first […]
The NEH Can’t Be Mended, So End It
My friend Rob Koons is less cynical than I am. He thinks that a “reformed [National Endowment for the Humanities] could be the spear point […]
Kate O’Beirne 1949-2017
The news yesterday that Kate O’Beirne—longtime Washington editor for National Review, quick-witted talk-show debater for CNN— had died was sad but not surprising. I had […]
How Trump’s First Three Months Point the Way to Three Percent Growth
The great nineteenth-century man of letters William Dean Howells once made a remark that I have long cherished as a sort of personal motto: “The […]
Trump’s Realism: America First Not America Alone
Is Donald Trump a student of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand? Some of Trump’s recent actions suggest that he is, at least intuitively. I am thinking […]
“What if?” The Evelyn Farkas Fracas
[fusion_imageframe image_id=”6022″ style_type=”none” style bordersize=”” border borderradius=”” align=”none” lightbox=”no” gallery_ lightbox_image=”” alt=”” link https://amgreatness.com/app/uploads/2017/04/W8oYryL-copy.jpg[/fusion_imageframe] I’m sure you’ve noticed that conservatives and Republicans (no, they are […]
The Art of the Possible in an Age of Recrimination
As Otto von Bismarck several times had occasion to observe, “Politics is the art of the possible.” On at least one occasion he added, “the […]
A Government of Laws, Not Men
I suspect that nearly all readers of American Greatness are familiar with John Adams’ famous statement about the rule of law in his Constitution for […]
A Modest Proposal For Shrinking The Government
Writing this month in The New Criterion, I noted the great angst emanating from the “Arts Community” over speculation that the Trump Administration might cut […]
The Middlebury Meltdown
Future historians of the liberal arts in American academic life will be able to pinpoint the time and place of its death with remarkable accuracy. […]