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 […]
Book Reviews
Why Trump the Peacemaker Won’t Win the Nobel Prize
In this age, when it has become fashionable to hate the land of our birth and our forefathers, Robert Spencer’s new book is a bracing reminder that America has indeed been great—and can be great again.
Charles Reich, R.I.P.
Remember Charles Reich? Probably not. But you probably do know the phrase “the greening of America.” It is Reich’s coinage, the title his fruity 1970 […]
Resisting the Politics of Victimhood
We are a self-contradictory people. In our private lives, we affirm, or at least speak as if we affirm, the virtues of personal responsibility, self-reliance, […]
Smiling Through the ‘Apocali’
On the whole, the Right does little in the culture war but bitch. Intrepid individuals have endeavored to check the Left; and, if that individual […]
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. […]
‘That We Here Highly Resolve . . . ’
Part memoir and part history, U.S. Senator Tom Cotton’s Sacred Duty recounts in vivid detail the stories of the men and women who make up […]
A Man for This Season
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From ‘Flight 93’ to Air Force One
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] [fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] Michael Anton, author of the most consequential pro-Trump article […]
Defender of the Faith
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] [fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] Since World War II, the war against Christianity that […]
Soul, Man
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] [fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] The soul is the most difficult and paradoxical thing […]
Defending the Nation
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The Mental State of the Ruling Class
In some ways, Todd Henderson is living the dream. He has worked as an engineer, a management consultant, a practicing lawyer, and ended up as […]
Nationalism Is Virtuous—Hazony’s Is Not
In his book, The Virtue of Nationalism, Yoram Hazony attempts to provide a much needed defense of the widely misunderstood and much maligned word. align=”right” […]
Enough Masculinity to Make Any Soy-Boy Clutch His Pearls
It’s a dead certainty that any wispy-beard wearing a “This is What Feminism Looks Like” t-shirt will be first-eaten in the zombie apocalypse. One only […]
A G.I. General in Full and at Last
Review of Omar Nelson Bradley: America’s G.I. General, 1893-1981, by Steven L. Ossad (University of Missouri Press, 492 pages, $36.95) Until now most of what […]
Frankly, I Do Give a Damn: Thomas Frank’s Essays About America
If America has a rendezvous with doom rather than destiny, if our end lies not in physical destruction but in moral decline and material decadence, […]
Getting Right with Alexander Hamilton
Why should anyone study the life of Alexander Hamilton? According to the Left, studying “dead white males” perpetuates racist, patriarchal, and heterosexual power structures that […]
The Great Junker: Bismarck’s Lessons for Today
We Germans fear God but otherwise nothing else in the world and that fear of God causes us to love peace and cultivate it.” — […]
Why Trump Is a President Like No Other
Conrad Black’s erudite biography of Donald J. Trump is different from the usual in mediis rebus accounts of first-year presidents. He avoids the Bob Woodward […]