An Independent America
Who are the friends of America? Who are the real enemies who hate America to the core of its being? In trying to answer these […]
Defense of the West
Leftism Is Like the Cult of Cthulhu
The most merciful thing in the world, I think,” wrote the American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft in the opening to The Call of Cthulhu, […]
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 […]
Duke University: Polyglot Boarding House
Middlebury College is widely renowned for their top-quality, immersive foreign language learning programs. Central to the Middlebury curriculum is the infamous language pledge, a promise […]
Who Wants These Professors?
Last year, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the industry periodical for academia, published a commentary under the title “The Whitesplaining of History Is Over.” The […]
Desperate Embrace At Europe’s Core
Europe’s most powerful personages on Tuesday signed a treaty for the “unification,” of Western Europe’s biggest countries. French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela […]
Trump Notwithstanding, U.S. Deploys Only Words Against Missiles
Official Washington has refused to defend America against ballistic missiles, especially from Russia and China, while spending some $300 billion pretending to be trying. For […]
Church vs. Temptation
Our civilization, and especially our country, is based on “the laws of nature and nature’s God,”—standards of right and wrong independent of earthly power—preached by […]
Rashida Tlaib’s Progressive Window Dressing
U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), following the lead of the insufferable Keith Ellison, opted to be inducted with a copy of the Koran for her […]
Chinese Biotech Threatens America
Modern medical science is simply extraordinary. The advent of biotechnology has allowed for truly innovative research, discovering cures for some of the most complex and […]
Letter from Brasilia: Now We Do
I am very worried; he talked too much about God.” So said a prominent Brazilian political commentator on TV after hearing President Jair Bolsonaro’s victory […]
Permanent Things: Russell Kirk’s Centenary
Mark the uncanny hand of coincidence. When I began thinking about putting together a conference about the legacy of Russell Kirk last spring, I knew […]
Good Riddance, Syrian Civil War!
The media and the political establishment’s excoriation of President Donald Trump for his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from the battlefield of eastern Syria has […]
How America Can Liberate the West Again
America’s domestic debates over immigration, and Democrats’ hysteria over Trump’s tweets, obfuscates the larger crisis unfolding in the West. Trump’s traditional nationalism is pitted against […]
Remembering the Patton Speech That Helped Win the War
World War II history is rich with some of the finest, most historically significant speeches of the 20th century. President Roosevelt’s “Day of Infamy” speech […]
Trump’s Syria Withdrawal Hinges on Turkey
Whether pulling the remaining U.S. troops from Syria turns out to be a bold and beneficial move or a stupid, harmful one depends on what […]
Western Leaders Pervert History in Recalling World War I
No sooner was President Trump derided for “brightening” upon Vladimir Putin’s arrival at the Armistice Day centenary last month than he canceled his planned meeting […]
The Globalist Mindset: They Hate You
Against what or whom is the contemporary Western public pushing back? The French non-Parisians against new green taxes on already unaffordable gasoline? Broke southern European […]
The ‘Trump Doctrine’ Is the Future of Conservative Foreign Policy
For the past two years we have seen the emergence of a coherent Trump doctrine in both words and deeds. align=”right” Weekend Long ReadThere is […]
Free the Kidnapped Canadians in Communist China
Last week, we discussed the national security threat to the United States and her siblings in the family of free nations that is posed by […]