Publication: The American Conservative

The American Conservative

Lloyd Austin’s little unauthorized jaunt is just the administrative state’s latest adventure in unfettered power.

The American Conservative

The popular, earned-benefit programs have strengths on the merits.

The American Conservative

The politics that produce the most children win.

The American Conservative

It is vital to make the moral argument to the American people.

The American Conservative

Did anyone ask you—or at least Congress—if it was O.K. to go to war again in the Middle East? After literal decades of fighting in that troubled part of the world, it looks like the U.S. is, without discussion, never mind vigorous debate, already at war in various sub-theaters of someone else’s conflict.

The American Conservative

He is both convinced the system is fully unfair and equally aware that the more trouble he seems to get into the faster his poll numbers rise. Each courtroom defeat, small and procedural or a full-on guilty verdict, simply fans the flames for rally crowds.

The American Conservative

The argument being made by those presidents who refused to speak out against the October 7 attack is that it’s acceptable to promote ideas which contradict the nation’s underlying moral sensibilities.

The American Conservative

We should thank her for exposing the lunatic id of GOP hawkism.

The American Conservative

A combination of mass migration and economic woes is likely to crack the firewall around AfD, with wide-reaching consequences not only for Germany, but for Europe.

The American Conservative

If this really was an attempted coup, it must have been organized by Monty Python.

The American Conservative

Around 2.6 million years ago, humans started eating meat and, up to today, we have not stopped. Thanks to this, our brains became bigger and more developed. Under the guise of slowing climate change, environmentalist campaigns, the U.N., the Davos Club, and lots of progressive governments’ efforts against the livestock industry and meat consumption have grown.

The American Conservative

The former president has proven more difficult to kill off than Rasputin—although not for want of effort from his enemies.

The American Conservative

It isn’t clear that the political payoff for impeaching Biden balances the lost opportunities for real legislative progress.

The American Conservative

The threat of reviving lockdowns and mask mandates appears to increase with every passing day.

The American Conservative

By Vivek Ramaswamy: I will go to Moscow in 2025. I will deliver peace in Ukraine under the only terms that should matter to us—terms that put American interests first.

The American Conservative

Forty-nine years ago this month, Richard Nixon resigned. With him went one of the most successful presidencies in American history. But so too did his unique philosophy of government. Contrary to the progressive presidencies that came before him, Nixon did not believe that government was the solution to every problem.

The American Conservative

The bottom line or lesson sure to be learned—if not by him now running for a second term, then by someone else—remains: You can go to jail for losing.

The American Conservative

As the criminal cases against Trump unfold, remember that the 45th president made the political world we’re living in. Right, left, and center, his policies have become the air we breathe. In a word (or two), Trump won.

The American Conservative

America’s Prigozhin is not a single person, but a subterranean ecosystem of permanent national security bureaucrats.

The American Conservative

Unlike Biden, RFK, Jr. is a breath of fresh air for a chagrined voting public.

The American Conservative

Across Europe, right-wing and national-conservative parties have scored remarkable victories in recent elections and are riding high in the polls. Disgruntled voters come in droves. Some liberal observers express fear of a coming right-wing “tsunami” in Europe. 

The American Conservative

Most of the riots are carefully planned and organized on social media, whether by BLM and Antifa in Kenosha or Minneapolis, or in the mosques in the French banlieues and suburbs. At some point sane minorities will have to mention in public that uncontrolled mass migration is a curse that often imports incompatible cultures.

The American Conservative

Gavin Newsom couldn’t ask for a better setup to a presidential run.

The American Conservative

Donald Trump will ride his narrative to the polls, campaigning even if in handcuffs and on an ankle monitor. He is, he will make clear, the victim of a Democratic plot to weaponize “justice.”