American Identity is Not Globalist
In a column this week for The Washington Post, Michael Gerson laments the passing, at least in his imagination, of a time when America was […]
Conservatives
The Whipped-Cream Boys of Affirmative Action
Wouldn’t it be marvelous if there were some public policy by which the United States could mitigate the shameful legacy of slavery? The descendants of […]
Why November May Spell Doom
Since the special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District, Democrats have been giddy, while Republicans have tried to conjure some reason—any reason—why the PA-18 result […]
President Trump: Rocking the Swamp With Who’s Next
The president’s administration was in chaos in a time of national crisis, one in which the very fate of our free republic hung in the […]
The Lord Helps Evangelicals Who Help Themselves
Michael Gerson, former chief speechwriter for George W. Bush, writes ruefully in the pages of The Atlantic about “The Last Temptation” of evangelical Christians. Over […]
American Happiness, Divine Damnation?
As Passover and Easter near, the heart and mind turn more intently to questions of the divine. How do we in the grubby business of […]
The Irrelevance of Stormy Daniels
Is Stormy Daniels relevant? The latest attempt by progressives and their kept media allies to attack President Trump involves a purported “hush-money” payment (in politer […]
Lessons for Republicans from the Pennsylvania Special Election
Voters in Pennsylvania’s 18th congressional district today will decide whether to elect Republican Rick Saccone or Democrat Conor Lamb in a special election, the result […]
Poison-Pill Migration
Beginning in the 1970s, the Republican Party’s center of support shifted from the Northeast and Midwest to the Southwest and Southeastern United States. For many […]
Banned in Britain
This past weekend, the United Kingdom showed every American why we should be proud to have thrown off their rule. First, the British Home Office […]
Power Line/American Greatness Celebrate American Julie Day
Once again, American Greatness teamed up with our friend Steven Hayward of PowerLine, for an episode of the PowerLine Podcast. In this edition, Steve is joined […]
Tariffs: An Allegory
Suppose you run a company with lots of employees. For a long time, among your employees have been a couple of your nephews. If you’re […]
Tariffs, Trade, and Patriotism
President Trump’s recent decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum in response to what he (and most Americans) view as the routinely unfair trade […]
Republicans Should Be Tired of Being Number Two
In two prior columns, I showed that the Republican Party has been America’s second-place party since the 1930s and that Ronald Reagan was the only […]
Trump is Reviving American Republicanism
Late on election night, as befuddled pundits finally accepted that Trump, against all predictions, had been elected president, the question arose: “What then should this […]
The Rapid ‘Progress’ of Progressivism
Not long ago I waited for a flight to board. The plane took off 45 minutes late. There were only two attendants to accommodate 11 […]
Rules for Right-Wingers on Facebook
Are the left-leaning engineers at California based social media giants plotting to censor right-leaning people? Perhaps. Are right-leaning people on Facebook being targeted or silenced? […]
The Great Social Media Purge: No One Is Safe
Social media is often abuzz with politics—from immigration and gun control to infrastructure and tariffs. Rarely is the social media itself the topic of discussion. […]
Chilling Sommers: Another Blow to Discourse
Among contemporary public intellectuals, Christina Hoff Sommers is among the most attacked by our illiberal Left. In the latest episode, student groups at Lewis and […]
Russia is Destabilizing America with Democrats’ Help
Colonel Stanislav Lunev defected from Russia to America in 1992. He came with a warning: Never mind the end of the Cold War. Russia was […]