Publication: American Conservative

American Conservative

In light of 2021’s record violence, there is reason to think some on the left are rediscovering the importance of self-defense.

American Conservative

The Novak Djokovic saga did not come out of nowhere, but perfectly exemplifies a once-liberal-democratic country’s embrace of lawless Covid-zealotry as a pretext to impose a draconian style of government.

American Conservative

Last month it was reported that Bruce Springsteen had sold his song catalogue to Sony for $500 million, the biggest deal of its kind in music history. Springsteen has thrown most of the principles propounded in his songwriting out the window. His music gave voice to America’s blue-collar workers, and chronicled the struggles of protagonists such as “tramps like us” on “a last chance power drive” in “Born to Run.”

American Conservative

Russia hoax booster and January 6 hawk Adam Schiff doesn’t let reality get in the way of his political goals.

American Conservative

Extremist political cycles seem to have a natural lifespan, but it requires real political will to overcome them.

American Conservative

Oh happy day! That creep Jussie Smollett, who claimed that he was attacked in a gay-bashing, was convicted today by a Chicago jury of five of six counts of lying about it…Frauds! Clowns! You BLM racists care nothing about the truth, only about loyalty to a narrative. Anybody who gives BLM money after this deserves to be laughed at as a fool.

American Conservative

Whether they realized it or not, the prosecutors who went after Rittenhouse and the McCloskeys were following a template created in South Africa. On paper, South African citizens have the legal right to own firearms and to use those firearms in self-defense. In practice, citizens who shoot an intruder face a tough legal investigation and are regularly arrested on the spot.

American Conservative

A new book looks at the Democratic Deep State’s tactics to remove three Republican presidents. “The Nixon Conspiracy: Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President,” argues that there was a conspiracy to bring down the 37th president—who was, of course, a Republican.

American Conservative

Biden is floundering, but not as grievously as his subordinate.

American Conservative

Bradley Devlin: What if I told you that some of the most prominent American political and business news outlets aren’t owned by Americans, but Germans. Sounds like something out of the middle of last century, but it’s true.

American Conservative

What the death of rock shows us is that the cultural revolution to which it was among the greatest contributors is over. There is a new establishment in place, and popular music exists to prop up the consensus it has established, not to overthrow or even to question it in the mildest possible terms.

American Conservative

Everybody get ready, Netflix is in the process of caving to Big Trans.

American Conservative

Laws contrary to the human good are not only false laws, but acts of violence against the human person which can be disobeyed.

American Conservative

Perhaps the only way Americans can become a better people is to become a less powerful people.

American Conservative

It would look more like Northern Ireland’s “Troubles.”

American Conservative

Hungary continues to take the lead in making family and family policy a focus of political life. American conservatives should pay attention.

American Conservative

Give up more freedom for safety, trust the government, and treat your neighbors as potential threats.

American Conservative

He is ambitious, incompetent, progressive, and wildly self-assured. The General is a walking answer to the unasked question, “What if Jim Mattis were fat and dumb?”

American Conservative

In the Netherlands, citizens must now show their papers to live a normal life; it will not stop with Covid.

American Conservative

Is this Clown World? The top US military officer called his Chinese counterpart to promise a heads-up before future war.

American Conservative

Blame China for its Covid-19 coverup all you want, but America’s expert class could share at least some culpability for the pandemic.

American Conservative

Whether imposed by government or the private sector, vaccine passports must be resisted.

American Conservative

Sports have transformed from an arena for the near-superhuman to one more venue for political performance.

American Conservative

Already tethered to the digital by devices that used to be novelties, we face the prospect of a vaccine-enabled “Paper’s please!” future.