Jeremy Corbyn’s Globalist Ambition Tour
Anyone remotely familiar with British politics won’t be surprised to learn that Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party leader, isn’t particularly well-furnished between his ears. A new […]
Conservatives
Let ‘Reaganism’ RIP
One of the biggest takeaways from the 2016 election was the unmistakable political and intellectual malaise that had gripped movement conservatism. Reagan-era policies, which had […]
California Republicans’ Munchausen By Proxy Problem
To paraphrase the oft-misquoted Mark Twain, rumors of the death of the California Republican Party are greatly exaggerated. The results of the November 2018 elections, […]
A State of the Union 75 Years in the Making: Trump Answers FDR
No mere spectacle, President Trump’s State of the Union address will set the course of his campaign into 2020. The basic divide he sees—whether this […]
Own the Libs, or Let the Libs Own Us?
Brandon Weichert, whose excellent writing has caught my eye for a while now, exhibits his worthy independence from party orthodoxy with his article on Monday […]
What We Still Have to Lose
In September 2016, the Claremont Review of Books published Michael Anton’s essay, “The Flight 93 Election,” which became one of the most controversial and discussed […]
Why a Primary Challenge to Trump Would Be a Good Thing
Serious primary challenges to a sitting president are usually a harbinger of electoral doom in the general election. Senator Eugene McCarthy’s challenge to President Lyndon […]
Why Liberals Don’t Call Out Democrat Hate
Last month’s attack on the Covington Catholic High School boys should be one of those electrifying moments of correction, as when Senator Joseph McCarthy was […]
Ideas Have Consequences
For those who came of age during the postwar era of “movement conservatism,” there was something of a canon of serious books that provided common […]
One of These Genocides Is Not Like the Others
The story of America as told by the American Left is one of unremitting exploitation, enslavement, and genocide. A country founded on the backs of […]
The ‘Red Tory’ Moment
Just a few miles from my hometown sits the Welsh Rust Belt—the south Wales Valleys. Stamped onto those verdant galloping hills is what remains of […]
Putting Families First to Trump the Ruling Class
The country class victory over the ruling class in 2016 with its election of Republican President Donald Trump was momentous. For the ruling class, however, […]
It’s Time to Get Real About Our Enemies
Out here in Realville, to borrow from Rush Limbaugh, Donald Trump’s supporters could be very happy. For ordinary Americans—from the top to the bottom of […]
Against Trump: Three Years Later
Three years ago this month, National Review published its controversial and now infamous entreaty, “Against Trump.” The issue was singularly devoted to making a case […]
Reject the ‘Wrong on Both Sides’ Dodge
Now that the media, the Left, and their usual conservative allies have failed to destroy young Nick Sandmann and the other Covington Catholic High School […]
A Better Guide than Elite Opinion Is Public Revulsion at It
Some expert in Bayesian probability ought to come up with an algorithm that would enable us to determine which of the multifarious daily outrages are […]
George Will’s Spleen Defeats His Good Sense
Once again, it is my unpleasant duty to take issue with my friend of nearly 40 years, the eminent commentator George Will. On January 18, […]
Understanding the Democrats’ Vote Alchemy
Legend says a humble French scribe named Nicolas Flamel discovered the philosopher’s stone—the alchemical secret to physical transmutation. To immortality itself. After turning a half-pound […]
An Artful Immigration Deal Would Trade ‘Amnesty’ for the Wall
Ann Coulter’s tweets blasting President Trump’s immigration speech Saturday surely heartened many Trump enthusiasts. But they are going to have to get used to a […]
What the Covington High Schoolers Taught America
What is the real lesson of the Covington Catholic School incident last week at the Lincoln Memorial? Decent Americans are rightly appalled at the deliberate […]