America Humbled
After decades of drift and decline, a humbled America turns to Trump—renewed, resolute, and ready to reclaim its purpose under God.
Americanism
America’s MVPs for 2024? The Amish Have Delivered In More Ways Than One
If America is considering nominations for the Most Valuable Players of 2024, the Amish community would qualify as serious contenders for helping to deliver the […]
Jason Aldean’s Primal Scream
On July 13, 2023, a country western artist little known outside his genre stepped into the national spotlight when he released a video of a […]
Boomers and Their Dismal Legacy: Talking with Helen Andrews
Helen Andrews new book, Boomers: The Men & Women Who Promised Freedom & Delivered Disaster is a tour de force. She joins me to discuss […]
The End of Watch Call
Jesus said, “Blessed are those pure of heart, for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8). Our country is filled with unheralded heroes. Those that don’t […]
A Transformation of the American Regime?
Almost all observers agree that America is profoundly divided. This intense polarization has been described by the Claremont Institute’s Angelo Codevilla as a “cold civil […]
Why 1984 Was the Best Year in American Pop Music
Thirty-five years ago, America was enjoying a bit of a patriotic swoon. The go-go ’80s were underway as the country finally emerged from a debilitating […]
Midwestern Values: May We Never Lose Them
I spent nearly a week in June in the flyover part of the country—Topeka, Kansas, to be exact—and found it to be a refreshing change. […]
Lincoln on the Independence Generation: ‘They Were Iron Men’
Abraham Lincoln delivered this address, which has come to be called “the electric cord” speech, in Chicago on July 10, 1858. Now, it happens that […]
Calvin Coolidge: ‘If All Men Are Created Equal, That Is Final’
The following is an excerpt from Calvin Coolidge’s (lengthy) speech in Philadelphia on July 5, 1926, marking the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. […]
The Lessons of the Declaration of Independence
The colonists’ quest for independence from the British in 1776 began with a goal: “to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal […]
‘Real America’ Inside the Beltway
It is often said our nation’s capital is filled with wealthy college-educated elites operating in a company town where everything is transactional. They are a […]
Making Immigration Great Again
In 1794 president George Washington wrote to Vice President John Adams on the necessity of assimilating immigrants to the new American republic’s way of life. […]
Reparations and Diversity Are Not the Path to Equality
The revival of reparations talk signals an opportunity for a serious discussion of the revival of republican self-government or strong citizenship. Instead, we get the […]
The New Social Contract We Must Reject
America’s public life is disordered; our discourse toxic. Competing lists of scandals and abuses (calls for impeachment, “nuclear options,” attacks on free speech, and so […]
Democrats Are Just Monkeys With Bananas
African natives use a simple method to catch monkeys: take a heavy jar with an opening just large enough for the monkey to fit in […]
Inclusive Nationalism
In response to the latest hysteria from the Left—the suppression of anything that in their blinkered judgment even remotely smacks of “white nationalism”—it is appropriate […]
How the Mueller Report Covers for Clinton and the Conspirators
On April 10, Attorney General William Barr got to the heart of the Russia collusion hoax in a delicate and understated manner. “Well, I guess—I […]
A Modest Proposal for Felons’ Rights
Socialist savant Bernie Sanders has propounded, and Senator cum footwear model Kamala Harris has endorsed, the notion that felons ought to be able to vote. […]
To Conquer Chaos, Court It
For all of the rhetoric about our supposed liberal international order, the world is more chaotic and unstable than it has been since World War […]