Republicans: Stand with Trump on the Wall
At his spirited rally in Phoenix, Arizona on Tuesday, President Trump reiterated his threat to shut down the government to force Congress to fund his […]
Trump White House
Does Anyone Have a Real Afghanistan Strategy?
Donald Trump’s recent address to the nation portends several more years of our soldiers inconclusively slogging through the hills of Afghanistan. While the speech was […]
Ben Boychuk on Trump’s Afghanistan Speech
American Greatness Managing Editor, Ben Boychuk, joined Chris Buskirk on the Seth and Chris show last week to discuss the president’s proposed “new strategy” in […]
The Gift of Anti-Trump Irrationality
Several polls released over the past few days have gauged not just what Americans think about Donald Trump’s response to the violence in Charlottesville, but […]
How the Media Smeared Trump on Charlottesville
As many have pointed out, since about 4 p.m. on August 12, the media coverage of Charlottesville has been much more about President Trump’s statements […]
Adam Smith, Closet Bannonite?
Adam Smith is universally recognized as the father of free market economics and modern globalist free traders like to point to him as the “first […]
Trump’s Critics Give White Supremacists the Notoriety They Crave
“Why Won’t Trump Denounce White Supremacists?” Steve Hayes asks in a Weekly Standard essay published shortly after the president’s first statement about the Charlottesville ugliness. […]
It’s Not Trump They Hate—It’s Us!
A storm gathers over the United States, threatening to inundate the very foundations of our civic edifice. In the heat of recriminations over the events […]
Why I Wouldn’t Change a Word of Trump’s Statement
President Trump on Saturday first addressed the alarming violence that was then unfolding in Charlottesville, Virginia, between neo-nazi nationalists and their opponents, the alt-Left “activists” […]
Should Presidents Follow Expert Military Advice?
The question arises because of widespread allegations that President Donald Trump should be constrained, somehow, to bend his foreign and defense policy to the advice […]
Bannon is the Avatar of the Trump Agenda
The long knives are out for Steve Bannon. Again. Or maybe it’s still. Every month the media narrative pits the president’s Chief Strategist against some […]
The Anti-Trump Bourbons: Learning and Forgetting Nothing in Time for 2020
Just seven months into Donald Trump’s administration we are already bombarded with political angling and speculations about the 2020 presidential race. No one knows in […]
Blame Game is Only Played One Way
Having revealed himself to be the biggest jerk in the world, and getting himself thrown out of the White House, Anthony Scaramucci is casting himself […]
Don’t Let Venezuela Distract from the North Korea Crisis
President Donald J. Trump has marched headlong into another escalating crisis—this time with the imploding Venezuela. And this one is altogether avoidable. Although the growing […]
Tariffs, Trade, and the NeverTrump Nightmare
In his brief but thoughtful piece, “Raise Tariffs, Secure the Nation,” Spencer P. Morrison recently asked a vital question: “[W]hy the disconnect over tariffs between […]
Steve Bannon, Superstar: Are You Really What They Say You Are?
Let’s face it: nothing pleases the Left more than Republican-on Republican-violence—especially when it aids the Regressive agenda. So, if you’ve discerned snickers and smirks amidst […]
Trump Just Gave In to the Swamp Creatures and It’s Ugly
President Trump on Wednesday signed legislation sanctioning Russia for its purported hacking of last year’s presidential election. The new law not only needlessly threatens to […]
America: Four Possible Futures
Back in August 2016, I was pleased to have been able to amaze the world with an important literary discovery: a hitherto unknown manuscript by […]
McMaster and Mattis Are Rare Assets—Not Deep State Liabilities
There is a larger context concerning the recent controversies among the architects of Trump’s national security team and agenda, and the criticism of National Security […]
Sanctions Squeeze: We’re Headed for World War
Washington is atwitter with talk of sanctions. Lawmakers left and right are riding high, as they “cry havoc!” and let slip the dogs of economic […]