Crossing the Trump Rubicon
We are in a veritable war of competing visions. The strife inside the two parties is irrelevant—when compared to the larger existential war for the […]
American Conservatism
The NeverTrump Nerds’ Quest to Save Mueller
The shrewd, erudite club of NeverTrump “conservatives” has finally hatched a plan to reclaim the Republican Party from Donald Trump and win the hearts and […]
Conservatism Needs a Reformation
Yesterday was the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s start of what became known as the Protestant Reformation. The Reformation was launched and gained traction because […]
The Ravin’: A Tale of Establishment Terror
With apologies to Edgar Allen Poe . . . Politics, corrupt and dreary, left me discouraged and weary, Pondering a faltering nation none seemed willing […]
Thinking Clearly About Russia
It is fair to say that the American Left as whole was “soft” on the Soviet Union during the last 25 years of the Cold […]
NeverTrumping to Oblivion
Every few generations, American politics undergoes an intense realignment. Today, America is experiencing a consequential change in its politics. Scholar and writer, F.H. Buckley, refers […]
Trick or Mistreating
Tell me, have you picked a costume for your campus Trick-or-Treating? Nowadays, it bears repeating, you had best take special care. The occasion may be […]
Jeff Flake Shoots Blanks
One of the easiest ways to gain 15 minutes of fame as a Republican is to attack another Republican. The cameras will roll, the pundits […]
Willful Ignorance
For the first time since the president’s inauguration, I broke my vow to shun all faux conservatives—you know, the type for whom personality was more […]
Sabo and Liebsohn on Missing the Action on the Right
Mike Sabo, a Mount Vernon Fellow of the Center for American Greatness, joined American Greatness contributing editor, Seth Leibsohn last week on the Seth and […]
Scandals Expose Empty Barrel NeverTrumpers
We are days away from the first trickle of columns and commentary on the one-year anniversary of the most shocking and disruptive presidential election in […]
Toward a Winning American Majority
The world is obsessed with Donald Trump. Hardly a day goes by without my receiving an email, a call, or a tweet from someone, somewhere […]
Persian Globalists Meet the First Greek President
After killing a usurper to the Achaemenid throne in 522 B.C., the Persian conspirators responsible for this act debated what form of government should replace […]
Put Up or Shut Up: Bill Kristol in 2018
In 1994, I ran for precinct committeeman in DuPage County, Illinois. At the time, it was one of the strongest Republican counties in the nation. […]
Gorka to Values Voters Summit: ‘This is a National Movement to Retake Our Country’
Sebastian Gorka on Saturday addressed Focus on the Family’s annual Values Voters Summit in Washington, D.C. Gorka is a U.S. military and intelligence analyst, and […]
John Locke, Closet NeverTrumper?
The fissures that led to the crackup of modern conservatism run deep. The most visible sign of this reality was the election of Donald Trump, […]
Henry Olsen Discusses Working Class Republicans
Author and elections analyst, Henry Olsen, joined American Greatness Publisher Chris Buskirk to discuss his new book, The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return […]
Ponzi and Leibsohn on “Muscular Americanism”
American Greatness Senior Editor Julie Ponzi joined AG contributing editor Seth Leibsohn yesterday on The Seth and Chris Show to discuss the ways conservatives continuously cave to the […]
Conservatives Need to Stop Indulging Leftist Narratives
The Daily Wire recently posted a short, satirical video (since removed) mocking those who gleefully take offense at the most imperceptible of slights. In this […]
Message v. Messenger: The Trump Enigma
About 90 percent of Republican voters eventually supported the political novice Donald Trump by November 2016. Most conservatives saw him as the preferable alternative to […]