Category: Weekend Long Read › American Greatness

Natural Law Liberalism—An Ideology for the Republican Party

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November 27, 2021

Unless Republicans anchor their political value system in the absolute truth of inalienable individual rights granted by God the Creator, the Left will eventually win.

Taking Advantage of the COVID Pandemic to Change the Way We Vote

By John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky

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November 21, 2021

There was no need to vastly increase the number of absentee ballots or to push the public to vote by mail.

Is the United States in Decline?

By Joseph F. Johnston, Jr.

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November 12, 2021

None of our recent setbacks is irreparable, but it is dismaying that they continue to happen and no one does anything to reverse course. A strong nation can do better.

Does the Navy’s New Emphasis on ‘Diversity’ Put the Nation At Risk?

By Phillip Keuhlen

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November 5, 2021

Dogma, not facts, risks the Navy’s readiness to defend the nation.

Very Fine People

By Peter W. Wood

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October 29, 2021

These are the times that try men’s souls. Some will be found wanting. Others will come through with a pure and noble wrath.

Migration Crisis Overview: Americanists vs. Transformationists

By John Fonte

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October 22, 2021

Biden’s immigration policy represents an existential conflict; at stake is our life or death as a self-governing republic.

Taking on the Establishment

By Mollie Ziegler Hemingway

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October 15, 2021

In January 2020 Trump’s opponents would need a miracle to stop him. But Democrats would soon get their lucky break.

What Kind of Movement Is BLM?

By David Horowitz

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October 8, 2021

The anti-American revolution they are advancing would destroy the most equitable, inclusive, tolerant, and free society that has ever existed.

Dissecting the Monsters of Modern Revolutions

By Donald T. Critchlow

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October 1, 2021

These monsters wore the masks of liberators, hiding the malevolence of hubris that comes when men attempt to create heaven on earth.

Antifa and the Mainstreaming of Antifascism

By Paul Gottfried

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September 24, 2021

Through violence and its ability to create extensive support systems, Antifa looks very much like early National Socialism.

The Project Is Launched

By Mary Grabar

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September 17, 2021

The ‘1619 Project’ is not just bad history, it is a danger to our national life, replacing the idea, goal, and reality of American unity with race-based obsessions.

The Return to ‘Reality’ Was the Greatest Casualty of 9/11

By Anis Shivani

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September 10, 2021

From the perspective of a self-described “hardcore leftist,” the thing we lost after 9/11 was our postmodern escape from reality. Now that it’s back, we are still paying the price.

Bullets, Ballots, and Books

By Glenn Ellmers

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September 5, 2021

What Harry Jaffa teaches is neither easy nor comforting. Rather than offer his students and readers idle chatter or shallow patriotism, he sought to reveal how natural right remains a living force.

Envy as the Path to Political Power

By Anne Hendershott

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August 20, 2021

Because envy is ever-present, a society’s ability to achieve greatness depends on its ability to control this highly destructive emotion.

The Tyranny of Experts

By Ronald J. Pestritto

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August 13, 2021

Understanding the origins of the administrative state goes a long way towards grasping how policy is really made today in American government

Historians Selling Out for Leftist Star, Nikole Hannah-Jones

By Mary Grabar

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July 24, 2021

Backpeddlers like Leslie Harris and Sean Wilentz, who are both reputable historians, have allowed themselves to be compromised by their solidarity and sympathy with their political tribes.

‘We Will Not Pay’

By Ned Ryun

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July 10, 2021

On the eve of the Revolution, tensions in Boston mount between the American patriots defending their rights and the royal governor in Massachusetts.

Incommensurability in 2021 American Politics

By Kenneth Levin

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July 2, 2021

The two, incommensurable, political paradigms of pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary America coincide with two different comprehensions of human nature.

Dissenting from Woke Superstition

By Jay Whig

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June 25, 2021

There will be an opportunity to finally discredit our modern religion of wokeism, and to build anew on its collapse with creditable notions of both the natural and the supernatural.

The U.S. Needs Measured Confrontation with China

By Bradley A. Thayer and Lianchao Han

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June 18, 2021

China is not a status quo great power. It is a revolutionary great power that seeks fundamental and permanent changes to the contemporary order in international politic