American Conservative
Another Trial in New York
Once upon a time, one of the most famous people in the world went on trial in New York. This person ...View More
A Missed Off-Ramp for Failed U.S. Policy Toward Venezuela
Governments often act at cross-purposes with themselves—a delicate way of saying that governments of ...View More
Biden’s Middle East Posture Courts Insanity and Endangers U.S. Troops
The crisis in the Middle East remains one step from major escalation. In the aftermath of Iran’s unp ...View More
Japan’s Subordination to Washington Is a Disgrace
On April 11, 2024, Japan’s Prime Minister Kishida Fumio stood at the dais in the United States Congr ...View More
Rehabilitating Syngman Rhee
There’s a scene early in The Birth of Korea, Kim Deog-young’s new film defending the legacy of South ...View More
Georgia’s ‘Foreign Influence’ Law Is Reasonable
The U.S. State Department recently condemned a bill that the parliament of Georgia is preparing to p ...View More
Vice President Burgum Would Undercut a Second Trump Administration
It’s one of those weeks where you find yourself asking, of no one in particular, What the hell is th ...View More
Is the Mexican President’s Denunciation of the U.S. Human Rights Report Right?
Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is again blasting the gringos, and perhaps this time ...View More
Will Florida Legalize Weed?
Ohio may be Trump country now, but conservatives are still losing in the Buckeye State. Just last No ...View More
A Burgum Vice Presidency Will Undercut a Second Trump Administration
It’s one of those weeks where you find yourself asking, of no one in particular, What the hell is th ...View More
Biden and Blinken’s Timorous Israel Policy
Long after the current administration passes from the scene, President Joseph R. Biden and Secretary ...View More
For Whom Do Biden and Blinken Work?
Long after the current administration passes from the scene, President Joseph R. Biden and Secretary ...View More
How to Deter a War with China Over Taiwan
Europe is suffering its largest land conflict since the Second World War in Ukraine. This fight coul ...View More
Inside the Battle to Keep Only Citizens Voting
Voter suppression is real—and it’s happening in blue states and ultra-“progressive” cities across Am ...View More
Citizen-Only Voting Is Winning in 2024
Voter suppression is real—and it’s happening in blue states and ultra-“progressive” cities across Am ...View More
Kevin McCarthy’s Opera Bouffe Primary Maneuver Against Matt Gaetz
Kevin McCarthy wants his revenge. What is left of the former House speaker’s political operation se ...View More
The Hur Memo and the Tragedy of Joe Biden
Two men sit across a table. One is just there to listen. The other, an 80-something who never got ar ...View More
Are the Democrats Facing 1968 Redux?
A question that has occasionally tickled political scientists’ brains is whether antiwar protests pr ...View More
The Biden Admin Is Trying to Guarantee a Forever War in Ukraine
As of two weeks ago, $61 billion would supposedly make the difference in the defense of Ukrainian so ...View More
Nanny-State Menthol Ban Runs Aground on Politics
President Biden’s political and policy instincts are better than his staff’s. This is one of the str ...View More
Is the Navalny Intelligence Leak an Olive Branch to Putin?
In the world of spy vs. spy, things are always murky. The public got a glimpse into that shadowy wor ...View More
DEI Was Never About Profitability
McKinsey & Company—the largest management consultancy in the world, the alumni of which include ...View More
Abortion and the American Seriousness Deficit
However one feels about it, abortion is a serious issue. Unfortunately, many Americans are not serio ...View More
Torch the Higher-Ed Sector
Frankly, I don’t care about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. I am agnostic, and so have no special ...View More
The Only Question That Matters in the Trump Trial
The critical element in the Trump “hush money” trial, and the factor most likely to result in a reas ...View More
Giorgia Meloni Is Better Than You Think
When Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party won the largest share of the vote in September 2022, t ...View More
Covid and the Good-Time Economy
It may feel like a century ago, but barely four years have passed since the severest days of the Cov ...View More
Why Are the Charities Enabling Illegal Immigration Still Tax-Exempt?
As the extent of America’s illegal immigration problem under President Biden has become clearer, so ...View More
