Weekend Long Read – American Greatness

The Treason of the Intellectuals & ‘the Undoing of Thought’

Roger Kimball — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 09:00:41 +0000

Last week, the commentator Lee Smith had me on “Words That Matter,” his show for Epoch TV. He had recently come across an essay I […]

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Cloud Cuckoo Land

Jeffrey Keltz — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 15:01:16 +0000

The following is an illustration of what a Leftist utopia might look like if Republicans don’t wake up and take back the White House in […]

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If We See the Constitution in its Proper Light, We May Begin to Honor it Again

Anthony Esolen — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 10:00:28 +0000

Much is to be forgiven of youth. When I was an undergraduate at Princeton, full of my own foolish ideas, I got into an argument […]

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A Century of Impotency: Conservative Failure and the Administrative State

Theo Wold — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 03:02:03 +0000

James Landis is widely credited with crafting the theoretical architecture supporting President Roosevelt’s radical reconstruction—and expansion—of the federal government. Landis shrewdly both established and legitimized […]

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Conservatives and Our Queer Constitution

Scott Yenor — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 03:03:23 +0000

For the last 50 years, the Republican Party has professed the family to be, as its election-year platforms state, “the foundation of the social order” […]

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The People’s Justice on Brumfield v. Cain

Amul Thapar — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 03:03:26 +0000

To anyone else, January 6, 1993, looked to be an ordinary day. But for Betty Smothers, it was a day she had dreamed of for […]

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COVID-19 Was a Biological 9/11

Brandon J. Weichert — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 03:01:09 +0000

Coronaviruses can be “artificially manipulated into an emerging human disease virus, then weaponized and unleashed in a way never seen before,” wrote 18 Chinese People’s […]

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This Is No Way to Run a Government

David Bernhardt — Sun, 28 May 2023 03:03:52 +0000

What follows is a stress-tested perspective on the challenges faced by political appointees whose attempts to navigate the bureaucratic swamp and drive change are met […]

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The Antidote To Dependence Is Building

Josh Hawley — Sun, 21 May 2023 03:03:05 +0000

My father is one of three boys in his family, the middle son. His older brother is my Uncle Bruce. He and my father are […]

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How Multiculturalism Toppled Rome

Jens Kurt Heycke — Sun, 14 May 2023 03:01:00 +0000

Nearly 2,000 years ago, the Roman emperor Gaius assembled a massive invasion force and marched it across Europe to the English Channel. The elite of […]

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American Despotism

Kevin Slack — Sun, 07 May 2023 03:00:27 +0000

While not every member of the neoliberal order, which still employs well-intentioned bureaucrats, has agreed to support a despotic agenda, the regime’s character forces one […]

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Inside Women’s Studies

Bruce Bawer — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 03:01:34 +0000

The setting: Town Hall in New York City on the evening of April 30, 1971. The event: a debate about “Women’s Liberation,” occasioned by Norman […]

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No To Conservative Accommodationism

John Fonte — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 03:03:33 +0000

Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a leading figure of the establishment Right in education, asks if Americans can find “common ground in […]

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The Jolly Green Giant and the JFK Mystery

Edward Jay Epstein — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 03:03:31 +0000

The curse of the JFK mystery was its propensity to change its shape. On March 1, 1967, I learned that it was far from over. […]

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Antonin Scalia, Ready for His Close-up

James Rosen — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 03:03:11 +0000

For President Reagan, this was it: the “most significant move” of his presidency, as an aide told the Wall Street Journal. On this, the morning […]

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The Empire That Never Was

Spencer Klavan — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 03:01:41 +0000

America is starting to feel like an ailing republic at home and a failed empire overseas. America, and the liberal order it imposed and upheld […]

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How Communist China Does Your Thinking for You

Col. Grant Newsham — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 03:05:15 +0000

On November 28, 2020, Di Dongsheng, vice dean of the School of International Relations at Renmin University in Beijing, gave a videotaped lecture in which […]

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An American System for America Prosperity

Curtis Ellis — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 03:03:07 +0000

Our founders understood that America could not be independent and strong if we relied on other nations for our manufactured goods. They understood the United […]

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The Triumph and Tragedy of Abba Eban

Rick Richman — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 04:00:05 +0000

Abba Eban was a key member of Israel’s government for more than a quarter century—from 1948 to 1974. In Israel’s first decade, he served for […]

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The Lincoln Miracle

Edward Achorn — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 04:03:17 +0000

In the chaos, nothing but shouting and cheering could be heard, a correspondent for the Buffalo Daily Courier reported. “Western fellows” were different from Easterners, […]

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Harry Jaffa vs. Willmoore Kendall Redivivus

Edward J. Erler — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 04:01:43 +0000

Intellectual leadership of what people are pleased to call the “conservative movement” is in disarray, with numerous champions vying for the crown or recommending that […]

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The Perils of Historical Ignorance

Timothy S. Goeglein — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 04:00:49 +0000

A while back, I came across an interesting, and disturbing, article written by the personal physician to the late David McCullough, a noted historian and […]

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Tocqueville in Arabia: The Anxieties of the Democratic Age

Joshua Mitchell — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 04:00:36 +0000

The American mood, giddy and triumphal after the 1991 Gulf War, darkened into intermixed rage and despair after the ghastly live-broadcast death spectacle in New […]

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Franklin’s Warning: A Republic . . . If You Can Keep It

Elizabeth Eastman — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 04:00:22 +0000

“Well Doctor what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” is one of the more famous questions in American history. Elizabeth Powel asked this […]

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Triumph Regained

Mark Moyar — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 04:03:47 +0000

The village of Van Tuong lies on the seacoast of Quang Ngai Province, atop the narrow strip of rich soil that drew Vietnamese noblemen and […]

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Lies, Damned Lies, and Gun Statistics

Larry Correia — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 04:00:20 +0000

What can we say to the “I’d be more comfortable if you gun people were forced to have more mandatory training” crowd? This is a […]

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The Unbearable Lightness of Pining Backward

Michael Anton — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 04:00:26 +0000

DISCLAIMER: Nearly everything I say in this essay I have already said at least once and, in most cases, more than once. At the same […]

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An Age of Decay

Chris Buskirk — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 03:00:24 +0000

America ran out of frontier when we hit the Pacific Ocean. And that changed things. Alaska and Hawaii were too far away to figure in […]

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An American Awakening

Joshua Mitchell — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 04:03:53 +0000

The seemingly novel developments of the last several years have not taken me by surprise. When I completed American Awakening in May 2020, the national […]

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Eat, Drink, and Be Merry

Michael P. Foley — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 04:01:25 +0000

Christmas would not be Christmas without its seasonal meats and treats. The traditional English observance of the holiday was so tied to breads, cakes, and […]

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Natural Right and the Traditional Reproach

Michael Anton — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 04:04:46 +0000

The “new Right,” or whatever we want to call that part of the Right that rejects the bromides of Conservatism, Inc. and supports Trump (or […]

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The Things We Believe In

Helen E. Krieble — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 04:00:03 +0000

Rosa Parks was one of America’s indispensable civil rights icons, Rita Hayworth one of its great actresses, Ronald Reagan one of its most consequential presidents, […]

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The 1980s on Trial

Mark Judge — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 04:01:30 +0000

During the hurricane that was the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, it wasn’t just my high school friends and I who were on trial—it was an entire […]

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Highways to Utopia

Roger Kimball — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 06:15:21 +0000

Every “Age of Enlightenment” proceeds from an unlimited optimism of the reason . . . to an equally unqualified skepticism. —Oswald Spengler, The Decline of […]

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Hollywood Movies Still Missing

Lloyd Billingsley — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 04:02:32 +0000

Every so often someone in Hollywood uses his power to break the movie colony’s rules. Consider this year’s “Total Eclipse.” Odd as it may seem, […]

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The Next American Economy

Samuel Gregg — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 04:01:04 +0000

In few areas is economic policy’s inseparability from politics more manifest than in global trade. In the period immediately following ratification of the U.S. Constitution, […]

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Why Do Humans Have Rights?

James Franklin — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 03:03:31 +0000

“What a piece of work is man,” says Hamlet. “How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, In form and moving how express and admirable, […]

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Our Digital Panopticon

Aaron Kheriaty — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 03:00:53 +0000

The biomedical security state that emerged during the COVID pandemic requires the power to monitor and control the movements and behaviors of an entire population, […]

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Mobs and the Weaponization of Loneliness

Stella Morabito — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 03:01:25 +0000

Vaclav Havel observed that the totalitarian is himself trapped within his own web, and the regime is captive to its own lies. He’s stuck in […]

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Hiding Hunter’s Laptop

Jim Hanson — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 03:02:48 +0000

Near the end of the 2020 presidential campaign there was an October Surprise. A shocking and provocative story that could potentially alter the outcome. That […]

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Religious Liberty and the American Founding

Vincent Phillip Muñoz — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 03:00:08 +0000

In the past few years, the U.S. Supreme Court and America as a whole have divided over whether prayers can be said at city council […]

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Electric Mania

Karen Hunt — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 03:00:08 +0000

Electricity! It’s magical. It’s mystical. We’ve been obsessed with harnessing its power for thousands of years. As far back as 600 B.C. Thales of Miletus […]

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The French Exit: A Detroit Love Story

J. Eric Wise — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 03:04:13 +0000

A French exit, as they sometimes call it, is synonymous with “ghosting.” One simply disappears, without farewells. Detroit was once one of the top four […]

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Yokel Wokeism

Andrew Cuff — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 03:04:40 +0000

On April 8, a Hillsdale College professor named David Azerrad gave a spirited lecture at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, advancing arguments conservatives have […]

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Woke Kidnapping

Lloyd Billingsley — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 03:00:51 +0000

Peter D’Abrosca recently charted the “quiet epidemic of judicial child trafficking in America,” based on a bogus therapy that subjects people to “an utter almost […]

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Exposé: The Quiet Epidemic of ‘Judicial Child Trafficking’ in America

Peter D'Abrosca — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 03:00:12 +0000

There is a quiet, and largely unreported, epidemic unfolding in the American family court system. More and more parents, mostly mothers, are experiencing firsthand the […]

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A Land Without Heroes

Jeremy S. Adams — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 03:00:29 +0000

For almost 20 years, I have had a mild obsession with “The Thomas Jefferson Hour.” The format of the NPR radio show/podcast is simple: listeners […]

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Ukraine’s War Today: Are We Winning or Losing?

George S. Bardmesser — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 03:00:44 +0000

Commentary on the Right—and some on the Left—is in agreement: the Russia-Ukraine war is essentially hopeless; it’s not our fight; Ukraine can’t win anyway, and […]

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The Stigmatization of the Ordinary

John Agresto — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 03:00:58 +0000

Over 60 years ago, we were introduced to the idea of “the two cultures” in higher education—that is, the growing rift in the academy between […]

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What Would Joan Rivers Do?

A.J. Rice — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 03:02:38 +0000

What would Joan Rivers do? Some right wingers can’t get through the day without asking what Reagan or Thatcher would do. Not me. I can’t […]

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