American Conservative
Apocalypse Soon?
As if things weren’t bad enough, the ongoing wars in Gaza and Ukraine have, in recent days, occasion ...View More
Antony Blinken Is Rockin’ in the Free World
Antony Blinken, b. 1962, is the Secretary of State of the United States. He’s also a baby boomer (al ...View More
Trump and Biden Agree to First Presidential Debate in June
On May 15, the former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden announced an agreement to a Jun ...View More
The 1990s Were a Decade of Failure
Like many people of my age and looming decrepitude, I have developed a nostalgia for the 1990s. The ...View More
What Does Richard Nixon’s Prophet Tell Us About 2024?
The late Kevin Phillips is the most underrated theorist of American populism. The brilliant strategi ...View More
Russell Kirk and the Providence of Permanence
When I find myself in times of trouble, Russell Kirk comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, “Permane ...View More
China’s Economic Malaise
According to a recent op-ed in the New York Times, China’s economy is not doing so well; in fact, it ...View More
Not Your Parents’ Protests
The most salient elements of the anti-Israel student protests are their radicalness and timing. Timi ...View More
Putin’s New Defense Minister Could Be His Successor
Vladimir Putin removed the longtime Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu from his post on Sunday as part o ...View More
Free Speech Still Applies at Universities
My conundrum begins with the base concept that there is no such thing as hate speech according to th ...View More
Sound Retreat!
No element of the art of war is so misunderstood as the retreat. It is commonly thought to be synony ...View More
Joe Biden Doesn’t Act Old Enough
Joe Biden is really old. For conservatives, this is practically an article of faith, and for ...View More
Anti-Establishment Pressure Builds as EU Elections Loom
For the first time in two decades, the EU’s parliamentary elections will coincide with America’s pre ...View More
What’s the Matter With Germany?
A scandal has shaken Germany and threatens to split apart the ruling coalition of Chancellor Olaf Sc ...View More
Are the Pro-Palestine Protesters Winning?
For President Joe Biden and his administration, the conflict in Gaza is already a two-front war.&nbs ...View More
Victimhood Puts Art Beyond Criticism
How can you critique, contend with, or question a work of art centered on the ill or the dying? Thir ...View More
Is RFK Jr. an Abortion Radical or Not?
It’s been a bad week for RFK Jr.’s presidential campaign. Not only has he faced copious memes that ...View More
Can Britain’s Left-Wing Next Foreign Secretary Find ‘Common Cause’ with Trump?
David Lammy, Britain’s all-but-certain next foreign secretary, is talking to J.D. Vance, says D ...View More
Teaching in the Age of the Smartphone
Everyone has the occasional bad class, but my worst run of sustained teaching failure came during th ...View More
Race Hustlers Are Destroying America
The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart, Jeremy Carl, Regnery, 256 pag ...View More
Conservative Media Outlets Are Beating Back the State Department
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Jeremy D. Kernodle rejected the Biden State Department’s request to ...View More
Trump Is Right: We Should Raise Tariffs on China
Newly enacted tariffs on China would hurt the U.S. economy, experts warned in 2018, right before the ...View More
Which Way, GOP?
In the two weeks since the passage of the Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan aid packages, the contours of ...View More
Biden Offers to Turn U.S. Military Personnel Into Saudi Royal Bodyguards
President Joe Biden has made a habit of putting the interest of foreign governments before that of t ...View More
MTG Triggers the Motion to Vacate
The clock has started for the House to hold a vote to vacate House Speaker Mike Johnson. Wednesday ...View More
Hoosier Daddy?
The Indiana primary came and went Tuesday night without much fanfare. Nor were there that many surpr ...View More
Trump’s Libertarian Convention Speech a ‘Head-Scratcher’—for the Libertarians
Weeks before the former President Donald Trump is scheduled to accept the Republican presidential no ...View More
America’s Public Transit Nightmare
Americosis: A Nation’s Dysfunction Observed from Public Transit by Sam Forster (2024, Sutherland Hou ...View More
