Trump’s Doctrine: ‘Principled Realism’ Comes to the Fore
Congress requires every administration to submit an outline of its national security strategy. This is usually a behind-the-scenes exercise, carried out by the national security […]
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Does Trump Threaten Science? Part 1
The American Association of University Professors has issued a short thunderclap of a report accusing President Trump of undermining the natural sciences. By itself, this […]
Trump Hastens Media Meltdown
Few things are better than watching the media weep in despair as President Trump continues to deliver on his promises. One of those things, however, […]
Chris Buskirk on PBS News Hour Discussing the Alabama Race
American Greatness publisher, Chris Buskirk, joined Judy Woodruff on PBS News Hour yesterday for a panel on the results of the Alabama Senate special election […]
Civil-Military Relations in the Age of Trump
Healthy relations between America’s civil and military populations depend upon the mutual trust, respect, and understanding between civilian and military leaders. This promotes the exchange […]
Good Taste Returns to the White House this Christmas
Though the hate-filled press would like you to think otherwise, this Christmas we have witnessed a return to a classic sense of style at the […]
An America First National Security Strategy
The Trump Administration continues to run circles around its detractors. In an historically unusual move, President Donald Trump will be unveiling his administration’s first National […]
Comey Exemplifies the Effort to Get Stupid
Former FBI Director James Comey is tweeting about justice and liberty. He accompanies his tweets with creepy selfies, and the context suggests he is colluding […]
Sarah Sanders is Above the Shame Game
Mika is mad. Mika Brzezinski, otherwise known as the future Mrs. Joe Scarborough, went ballistic Tuesday on her MSNBC morning show over comments by White […]
What Will It Take to Get Serious About Missile Defense?
North Korea’s possession of mobile-launched missiles that can deliver nukes anywhere in the United States shows that, nowadays, anybody can make lots of pinpoint-accurate missiles […]
Is Tolerance a Virtue?
We know what the Left hates about conservatives. In her losing campaign for president, Hillary Clinton articulated her litany of the deplorables: “racist, sexist, homophobic, […]
Make America Grateful Again
As we celebrate Thanksgiving with our families and friends, we should set aside time to recognize the higher purpose for which we gather together around […]
President Trump’s Religious Rhetoric
Donald Trump is a famously paradoxical figure: A nonpolitician who vaulted directly into the nation’s highest political office. A billionaire who seeks to speak for […]
The Insults Will Be Televised
A year after his election, Trump haters are out baying at the sky like a pack of Iditarod sled dogs. For others, it hasn’t fully […]
NeverTrump Makes a Left Turn
National Review in February 2016 published “Against Trump,” a special issue that made a reasoned case for why conservatives should oppose Donald Trump’s nomination as […]
About Trump’s Death Penalty Tweets
Outraged that New York bike path terrorist, Sayfullo Saipov, (no, I’m not going to call him a “suspect”) had insolently asked to hang an ISIS […]
“Nothing to See Here!”: The Crackup of the Democratic Party
Last night’s Democratic victories in Virginia and New Jersey have caused pollsters and pundits to focus all of their attention on the potential looming troubles […]
Crossing the Trump Rubicon
We are in a veritable war of competing visions. The strife inside the two parties is irrelevant—when compared to the larger existential war for the […]
The Tax Debate to Date: Stay Out of the Weeds!
It is never wise to get down in the thick of the swamp, for that’s where the predators feast. Wade too deeply in the policy […]
Trump Has Broken the Apology Hypnosis on Race
He broke me,” Kathy Griffin famously said of our 45th President as she gazed, narcissistically, upon her self-inflicted wounds after incomprehensibly and symbolically decapitating the […]