Why Conservative Intellectuals Support Trump – A Reply To Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart is a bit late to the party in excoriating “Trump’s intellectuals.” It’s not just that the theme has been done to death, months […]
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Donald Trump & The Conservative Cause
[Editor’s Note: Reprinted with permission from the Claremont Review of Books. The reply by Dr. John Marini should be read as well.] A political party that […]
The Crisis in American Constitutionalism with Dr. Larry Arnn (PODCAST)
Dr. Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, joined me today for the better part of an hour to discuss the crisis unfolding in American politics. […]
Trump’s Unqualified So…Evan McMullin?
Trump is unqualified. He’s no conservative. He’s a vulgar, know-nothing boob who cannot be allowed to sit on the furniture in the White House. At […]
Learning From Reagan Without Nostalgia with Steve Hayward (PODCAST)
We’ve been talking about the death of Reaganism for a few weeks now – but we do not lament. The Reaganism of the 1980s was […]
Hey Bud, Let’s Uniparty!
I don’t usually write about life hacks but here’s one: If you have a secret, don’t tell Bill Kristol. The Weekly Standard editor and #NeverTrump […]
National Review Fluffs A Drug Dealer For President As The Pro-Life Candidate
Ah, National Review, we thought we knew ye. But that was before Trump Derangement Syndrome (“TDS”) set in and WordPress logins were handed out to […]
What Comes After Reaganism?
Reaganism has been the state-religion of the American Right for over 30 years. And like most official religions it has been diluted and twisted beyond […]
Death of the Reagan Revolution
What would Ronald Reagan do? That has been the question—actual or implied—on the lips of every Republican for the last 30 years. From the squishiest […]
Why Voting Trump Is Morally Good – Interview With Theologian Dr. Wayne Grudem
Dr. Wayne Grudem is a well known evangelical Christian theologian. Educated at Harvard, Cambridge, and Westminster Seminary, he is currently a professor at Phoenix Seminary […]
John Marini explains the American Crisis: Part 1
An article at the Claremont Review of Books by John Marini, the scholar who literally wrote the book on the ways the administrative state is […]
Towards A Better American Conservatism – A Discussion With Ben Boychuk
Ben and I started what we hope to make a weekly discussion that we will publish here and on iTunes. We began with a theme […]
With Malice Toward None
Many thanks to Carl Eric Scott at National Review’s “Postmodern Conservative” blog for taking note of our efforts here at American Greatness and for his […]
Our Declaration of Independence from the Conservative Movement
American Greatness aims to be the leading voice of the next generation of American Conservatism. Divisions made evident during the 2016 Republican primaries made the […]
But Bill, Why Were They In Babylon?
The Republican Party is broken. On that, at least, Bill Kristol and I agree. Kristol published a piece in The Weekly Standard this week that […]
Sorry, David Brooks and Others: You’re Massively Wrong About Globalism Being “Massively Right”
At the American Interest, Jason Willick writes perceptively about Samuel Huntington’s prediction, more than two decades old, that the political order in the West would be turned upside […]
Their Essex Man, Our Reagan Democrat
Readers of American Greatness will not want to miss this Powerline Podcast with Steve Hayward interviewing Henry Olsen of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Olsen is the […]
Mike Lee’s Dangerous Flirtation
The NeverTrump movement went out with a whimper rather than a bang. After months of posturing, wrangling, scheming, and way too many public tantrums, the […]
Donald Trump is Right About ‘America First’
From my column in Friday’s Sacramento Bee: “America First” is rooted in the nation’s founding principles. The idea finds its voice and inspiration in no […]