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 […]
Social Compact, American Style
And the “debate” rages on. Mostly in nitpicky and unproductive directions. But a new attack by Robert Tracinski raises the grave and misunderstood question of the social […]
Why Do We Need More People in This Country, Anyway?
As Capitol Hill Republicans attempt for—what, the eighth? ninth?—time in the past two decades to jam through an amnesty that their voters have explicitly, loudly […]
Michael Anton on a Fusionism for Our Time
Michael Anton was a senior contributing editor at American Greatness from July 2016 until January 2017 when he became deputy assistant to the president for […]
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 […]
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 […]
Meet the ‘Oligogues’
The favorite pastime of our oligarchy is to harp on endlessly about the supposed faults of the people who elected Donald Trump president. According to […]
How to Win Our (Un)Civil War
Ken Masugi, whom I have known and respected since we met while studying under the late Harry Jaffa during President Reagan’s first term, thinks my […]
Flight 93 Has Not Landed
Like many readers of American Greatness, I have watched the unfolding debate over what can only be called “the Flight 93 question” with equal parts […]
Romancing Reactionaries: Andrew Sullivan, the Left, and Not Getting It
“Donald Trump is not being reasonable…. But, then, man does not live by reason alone, fortunately. Trump, who believes that excess can be a virtue, […]
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Ridiculous ‘100 Days’ Report
The Southern Poverty Law Center is at it again. At the hundred-day mark of President Trump’s administration, the center has released a report that purports […]
A Potty-Mouthed Legacy Journalist
The malignity is easy to read. “Oh, Mike Anton, I recognize your quotes and so will Jared,” tweeted the hard-line NeverTrumper John Podhoretz yesterday morning. […]
Rod Dreher, Meet Leo Strauss and Friends
Rod Dreher has discovered an exotic tribe known as the Straussians. Dreher, in case you’re not aware, is a blogger at The American Conservative and […]
Conservatism: What is it Good For?
Paul Mirengoff of PowerLine has been kind enough to reply to my recent essay on the state of modern conservatism. To get the brown-nosing out […]
Bannon Vindicates John Marini
Even before Michael Anton (writing as Publius Decius Mus) published the most famous essay of the 2016 campaign season, “The Flight 93 Election,”—indeed, even before […]