Our Media Occupies the Moral Playground
President Trump on Sunday accused the Wall Street Journal of misquoting him invidiously in an interview published last Thursday. The newspaper attributed the following phrase […]
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The Democrats’ Dilemma: Immigration and the Welfare State
The Democrats used to be the party of the working class: they supported trade unions and believed in the welfare state. Their goal was to […]
More Than an Idea—a Nation
Both the far Left and the neoconservative Right were appalled by Donald Trump’s reported skepticism about taking in immigrants from “shithole countries.” The usual script […]
Trump is America’s Plumber
Donald Trump is not an ideological man. He ran by appealing to the sentiments that unite most working-class Americans, much like Ronald Reagan did in […]
View from Britain: Bonfire of the Pieties
Liberals haven’t taken the election of Donald Trump in stride. No, the seemingly grown adults who’ve spent the last 12 months donning pussy hats, then […]
DACA Doublespeak
In an extraordinary move last week, President Trump brought congressional leaders to the White House for a vigorous discussion of immigration policy. What made the […]
‘Shithole’-gate and Toxic Double Standards
In the wake of President Trump’s “shithole” comment (which may have been misreported), CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked a predictably leading question of Republican “strategist” Ana […]
Tax Cuts and Wars Are Not Enough, Mr. President
In 2017, the president had a handful of successes that should make all Trump supporters proud. He managed to engage in the greatest rollback of […]
The Left Goes “Bananas”
Given Hollywood is a bastion of the Left, it is not surprising their “narratives” are oft recycled by Democrats into political fictions, fantasies and plots. […]
Trump’s Conservative-Realist Approach Will Outlast Trump
Anne Applebaum laments the death of Wilsonian world order, in her latest column for the Washington Post. Let us for a moment skip over the […]
Is Trump Really Crazy?
Michael Wolff’s sensational exposé of the supposed chaos of the Trump White House is no doubt largely a mix of fantasy, exaggeration, and some accidental […]
To Tweet or Not to Tweet
I am about to do something all who know me will consider nearly impossible: Admit I was wrong. (Please do not alert my husband or […]
I Voted for Trump, Not Bannon or Kushner
“Steve Bannon was a man of vision,” the columnist David P. Goldman told Alex Marlow of Breitbart News in August. Certainly. Goldman also is sound […]
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 […]
A Special Prosecutor Should Probe Democrats’ Malfeasance
When the 2016 presidential election ended, the media somehow found the time to expose one of the greatest scandals of that or any other election […]
Back to the Future: From Scooter Libby to Donald Trump
Do we remember today the media hysteria between 2003 and 2007 that surrounded the special counsel’s investigation, prosecution, and trial of Scooter Libby? During the […]
A Great Week for the President and a NeverTrump Crack-up
This week has been a vindication for much-maligned Trump supporters. Not only did the president have the best week of his administration, an internecine feud […]
With Dignity, Trump Crosses the Delaware
The tax-cut bill is the beginning of the end of the Cult of Victimization. With its passage, the Republican majority in Congress, however tenuous, has scored […]
Good Riddance to the Blue State Model
A few years ago, Walter Russell Mead published an insightful article titled, “The Once and Future Liberalism” in which he described two models of governance […]
The Jig is Up for High Tax States
With tax reform finally on its way to President Trump’s desk, it’s safe to say that the Left is unlikely to let up on its […]