Making Sense of the American Founding with Thomas G. West
What makes American freedom unique in the world? What have Americans forgotten in the 21st century that America’s Founders knew and took for granted? How […]
American Conservatism
Conservatives Need a Remedial Course in Sovereignty
Daniel Henninger, the usually perceptive deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, says he’s stumped when it comes to President Trump’s “thoughts on […]
Ben Boychuk with Chris Buskirk on Conservative Culpability
American Greatness Managing Editor, Ben Boychuk, AG publisher, Chris Buskirk, last week on The Seth and Chris Show to discuss the ways in which conservatives and Republicans are […]
‘Bama Blowout Signals the End of the McConnell Era
Judge Roy Moore’s substantial defeat of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s handpicked, well-financed candidate, “Big Luther” Strange in the Alabama Republican Senate Primary is a […]
Who’s the Con: Trump or . . . Ann Coulter?
As long ago as April 2011, I argued Donald Trump would stand a good chance of winning if he decided to make a serious run […]
Conservatives Have Many Fronts But Little Fight
With the announcement that John McCain will not be voting in favor of the Graham-Cassidy bill that would repeal major portions of the Affordable Care […]
To Secure the Blessings of Liberty, Rein in the ‘Permanent State’
The following are remarks delivered by Dr. Sebastian Gorka at Hillsdale College’s eighth annual Constitution Day celebration in Washington, D.C. on September 19, 2017. Good […]
Ben in Berkeley Scolds the Poor
Democracy is still new to conservatives in certain ways. Even so, it’s strange for a democratic people to see full-throated moralism denouncing the poor from […]
Trump, the Republicans, and 2018
President Trump recently shocked the Republican establishment by making a deal with the Democrats over the debt ceiling. The logic behind the move was, if […]
Jonah Goldberg and the Republican “Land that Time Forgot”
The deal President Trump struck this week with Democratic Party leadership has sent the conservative commentariat into a rage spiral. Trump, snubbing the Republican “leadership” […]
‘Party of Lincoln’ No More
One of the most prominent clichés that passes for wisdom among the GOP Establishment and conservative intellectual elite is that the Republican Party is the party […]
Republicans Cower in Charlottesville’s Aftermath
Last month’s events in Charlottesville have given our Republican elected officials an excellent opportunity to educate the public on the violence of the hard Left […]
The Black Hole of Modern Conservative Rhetoric
At one of the big summer events that enthrall those who dwell inside the D.C. bubble, interns from Conservatism, Inc. square off against interns from […]
Trump: Not Your Old Codger’s Republican
The Washington Post last week published an op-ed by John Danforth, a former U.S. senator from Missouri. His piece—“The real reason Trump is not a […]
Trump—Compared to What?
Tu quoque is a classical Latin term for “you too.” It is sometimes considered a logical fallacy: you do not defend your position, but instead […]
How Small Government Rhetoric Misses the Mark
Modern conservative politics is largely divorced from reality, preferring abstraction and utopian schemes that wither in the face of the Left’s endless crusade against civil […]
Tackling the Statue Issue
In my youth, I played football at Catholic Central High School. I played both the offensive and defensive line. As a defensive lineman, the goal […]
Why I Cancelled My Subscription to The Economist
As a teenager I was enthralled by The Economist—the logic of liberal economics was elegant, almost beautiful in its simplicity. I was a student. I […]
Adam Smith, Closet Bannonite?
Adam Smith is universally recognized as the father of free market economics and modern globalist free traders like to point to him as the “first […]
A Deplorable Conservative Response to Charlottesville and Bannon
President Donald Trump’s responses to the violence in Charlottesville have garnered the typical reactions from all the usual suspects in the conservative sphere of influence. […]