Trump’s Bitter-Ender Critics Are Consumed With Projection
Friedrich Nietzsche famously warned, “he who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster.” Judging from the ongoing neoconservative meltdown in […]
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Meryl’s Bad Memory
“I am a righteous bitch, aren’t I?” –Meryl Streep as Kate Mundy in “Dancing at Lughnasa” Meryl Streep on Sunday brought all her righteousness to […]
The Elite Cosmopolitanism of Russell Moore
One of the more sanctimonious Never Trumpers this election season has been Russell Moore, the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of […]
The Greatness Agenda and American Greatness
American Greatness and, more generally, new means of promoting the Greatness Agenda are generating quite a bit of media attention this week. And there is more to […]
Libertarian Judicial Activism Isn’t What the Courts Need
Were the Founding Fathers anarchists? Did the ideas contained in John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty, published in 1859, somehow inspire the delegates to the Constitutional […]
The New Yorker on the “Greatness Agenda”
The January 9, 2017 edition of The New Yorker features a story titled “Intellectuals for Trump,” which highlights the work of Publius Decius Mus and […]
Decius Won A Sidney!
A crown of laurels is due to our own Publius Decius Mus. He won a Sidney Award from David Brooks in the New York Times for […]
Glasnost and Perestroika for American Higher Education
In 1986, Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev announced two new policies: glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring). Five years later, Communism’s 74-year-long domination of Russia came to […]
The Trump Court: SCOTUS Could Stand Some Disruption
During the campaign, Donald Trump vowed to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C. He was referring primarily to halting the “revolving door” now used by […]
The Gift of the MAGA: An AG Symposium on Great Reads for the Greatness Agenda
Darren Beattie Martin Ford’s book, Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, is unsettling, and unsettling in just the right […]
Winning the War and Losing the Peace
The campaign didn’t end on election night. That’s the message for America from the bipartisan uniparty headquartered in Washington, D.C.—the one that Trump supporters voted […]
The Fall and Fall of Evan McMullin
Thought the #NeverTrump fiasco was kaput now that the election is over? Think again. Though many Never Trumpers have abandoned the field and are cautiously […]
Calhoun U: “Safe Spaces,” Trigger Warnings, and Echoes of the Old South
In his congressional career, John Quincy Adams famously fought the “gag rule.” The rule prohibited consideration of anti-slavery petitions by the House of Representatives. Any […]
Desperately Demeaning DeVos
America’s teachers union leaders typically don’t like secretaries of education. At all. They see the cabinet position as a teenager views a chaperone—a scold who […]
The Art of Economic Warfare (Part 5): Using a Bad System For Some Good
In the last week, Right- and Left-wingers alike have been picking up on an old theme: Can one serve a greater good by engaging in […]
The Common Sense Trump-Has-Been-Elected Survival Guide
With Donald Trump’s election, a growing number of websites, organizations, survival guides—and even elected officials—have issued statements of fear, stoked notions of dystopia, and promoted […]
Sanctuary Cities and Marquess of Queensberry Rules
In a controversial 1992 free-speech case, Justice Antonin Scalia famously proclaimed that the government may not “license one side of a debate to fight freestyle, […]
Great Reads for Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016
Back by popular demand, “Great Reads” henceforth will appear on Tuesdays and Fridays. Forty-four days until the inauguration. Only on American Greatness: Julie Ponzi lauds […]
The Conservative Victory in the Trump Administration is Already Here
The exact shape of President-Elect Donald Trump’s administration and cabinet is not yet fully formed or defined but of this there can be no doubt: Whatever […]
We’re Just Getting Started. Help Us Succeed
The election is over. The transition is underway. Barring an extraordinary turn of events between now and January 20, Donald J. Trump will be the […]