A Ghastly and Tasteless Escalation of Tensions…With Ourselves
The response to the Helsinki meeting has been so extreme on all sides that questions about the maturity, stability, and intelligence of the entire American […]
Americanism
Trumping Experts and Russia
Watching the political class melt down on Twitter and in the media in the wake of President Trump’s Monday press conference with Vladimir Putin, I […]
Trump Must Navigate in a Wilderness of Mirrors
So the Straight Arrow has now gone and indicted a dozen members of the Russian military intelligence service, the GRU, on charges relating to—stop me […]
Trump Will Win This Round With the Deep State
When the cant and emotionalism subside, the Helsinki summit will go down in history as a turning point in this American president’s struggle to disembowel […]
Immigrants Change Cultures, For Good and Ill
The most frequently used description of America by those who advocate for large numbers of immigrants—those here legally or illegally—is “America is a nation of […]
What Critics Missed About the Trump-Putin Summit
When Presidents Trump and Vladimir Putin ended their joint press conference in Helsinki, the punditocracy predictably swarmed all over it like ants around a pile […]
Maxine Waters is the Face of the New Progressive Democratic Party
The most noteworthy thing to emerge from the recent Maxine Waters dustup wasn’t her call for mob harassment tactics against Trump Administration officials, nor the […]
Coming to Some Reality on Crimea
As President Trump sits down for his first one on one meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, some history and perspective are in order. […]
What Good Is NATO?
The old aristocracy was born of battle, a warrior aristocracy. Then the reins were handed off to the bourgeois, the wealthy capitalist class. Today we […]
NATO Now Serves the Interests of the Transatlantic Ruling Class
If we’re to believe the recent NATO summit’s communique and the mainstream media’s commentaries about it, the alliance serves roughly the same essential purpose today […]
Deploy Good Humor to Defeat the Left
In 2016, the pollster prophets, after examining the innards of a statistically significant sample of free-range chickens sacrificed under a full moon, asserted that Hillary […]
Saving the American Dream
It was winter and the streets of Vienna were covered with snow. The plows were busy for most of the night, and I watched them […]
American Greatness Turns Two!
Today marks the second anniversary of the launch of American Greatness. In the heat of the election of 2016, it was clear that there was […]
Mayday for Brexit
President Trump managed to ruffle a few feathers during his visit to Great Britain this week before Air Force One even stroked the runway. Then, […]
Reciprocity Is the Method to Trump’s Madness
Critics of Donald Trump claim there is no rhyme or reason to his foreign policy. But if there is a consistency, it might be called […]
NeverTrump Bait and Switch: They Hate the Ideas, Not the Man
Michael Gerson, President George W. Bush’s head speechwriter, paid me the ultimate writer’s compliment last week: he attacked me in print. I count Michael as […]
USDA Moves to End Rent-Seeking in Poultry Industry
The U.S. Department of Agriculture in December ruffled a few feathers by withdrawing a regulation published on the final full day of the Obama Administration […]
Kavanaugh Gets the Call: Get Ready for the Smear
Twelve days ago, Justice Anthony Kennedy stepped down and Monday night the pick to replace him was in. President Trump named D.C. Appeals Court Judge […]
Not Your Father’s Supreme Court
President Trump on Monday announced that he was appointing D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court. Not […]
You’re Not a Member, Robinson, Beat It
Conservatives who’ve tried to make it in academia and other cultural circles have heard this many times: “You don’t really belong here.” It doesn’t matter […]