The GOP Foreign Policy Establishment is Getting Schooled
If you asked the leading foreign policy experts in the Republican Party—those great minds who have dedicated their lives to the history, the economics, the […]
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Suicide of the Conservative Movement
Jonah Goldberg appeared recently on “Conversations with Bill Kristol” to discuss his new book, Suicide of the West. During his chat with one of the […]
Fear of the Left: The Most Powerful Force in America Today
The dominant force in America and many other Western countries today is fear of the Left. This is a result of the fact that the […]
Evan McMullin: A Colonoscopy
Here is a trivia question that no one will get right in the coming years: Name a Republican candidate for president in 2016 who attracted […]
An Imminent Counterattack Begins the Fight of Our Lives
Unparalleled government abuses of power are about to become public. The question is what we, the people, will do in response to this overt attempt […]
Rogue Ruling Class Grabs Power, Removes the People’s Sovereignty
Famed civil libertarian and attorney Alan Dershowitz said recently of the ongoing shenanigans surrounding Robert Mueller’s investigation: “Just as the first casualty of war is […]
Calexit 2020? Yeah, Right!
California sometimes reminds me of an old Mad Magazine novelty record, “It’s a Super-Spectacular Day.” Maybe you remember it. The song starts out as a […]
Devin Nunes Is a Badass
Devin Nunes, the eight-term Republican congressman from California, is taking on the world’s most powerful law enforcement and intelligence apparatus to uncover exactly what happened […]
Kevin Williamson, Abortion, and Extremism
This weekend, Kevin Williamson finally offered his side of the story in his predictable firing by the Atlantic in the Wall Street Journal. In his […]
How Kevin Williamson Was Blinded by the Right, Fired by the Left
Kevin Williamson’s primal whine of a weekend essay in the Wall Street Journal reported that he was fired by the Atlantic magazine after serving an […]
Primary Trump is Making a Comeback
When Donald Trump first announced his candidacy during the infamous escalator ride of June 16, 2015, his speech was unconventional, to say the least. In […]
The Fiery Angel, Western Culture and Its (Dis)Contents
This week, I’m in Washington, D.C. giving a series of lectures and seminars at the Institute of World Politics, a small postgraduate school that specializes […]
The Conservative Renaissance Has Begun
As President Trump continues to remake the Republican Party in his image, calls for last rites to be given to American conservatism are not just […]
Michael Anton Addresses His Critics, Affirms Support for Trump
Michael Anton was a senior contributing editor of American Greatness from July 2016 until January 2017 when he became deputy assistant to the president for […]
Who Will Regulate Our Regulators?
The New York Times in an article reporting on President Trump’s efforts to dismantle the regulatory state, hit upon a divergence of thought on the […]
The Blair Kitsch Project
The insufferably honest chap who cajoled Great Britain into the Iraq War based on “intelligence” not even Buzzfeed would credit, thinks his countrymen’s historic vote […]
Living With Politics as War
Whoever was surprised by the hate-fest against the National Rifle Association and conservative Americans in general that followed the Parkland, Florida school shooting must not […]
Is Ryan’s Exit the End of the Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party?
Paul Ryan’s announcement Wednesday that he is not running for re-election from his hitherto safe district in Wisconsin, coming as it did amidst the media-fueled […]
Good Riddance, Mr. Speaker
In 2016, Wisconsin turned red for Donald Trump but Paul Ryan’s Janesville remained stubbornly blue—so perhaps it is no surprise that the speaker of the […]
Mueller at the Crossroads
Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel in May 2017 in reaction to a media still gripped by near hysteria over the inexplicable defeat of Hillary […]