This year The American Conservative turns 15. In a lengthy piece in the May/June issue, Scott McConnell, the magazine’s founding editor, explains its history and purpose. McConnell writes that back in 2002 and 2003, “what passed for conservatism in the United States wasn’t conserving much of anything.” Gung-ho forays into forever wars in the Middle […]
American Culture is Norman Rockwell Not Constitutional Scholars
Writing at The American Conservative, Emile Doak explains that even though America is a young nation, with an underdeveloped culture, those cultural practices Americans do have should be cherished as pieces of the “American idea.” He writes (abridged): This past weekend, there was a wedding some 4,000 miles away that nonetheless captivated the American psyche. […]
The Armed American Family, Part VI
Originally posted on July 28, 2015. “We’re bringing back the One Million Gun Challenge with a twist,” says Ruger CEO Mike Fifer. Between the 2015 and 2016 NRA Annual Meeting, Ruger’s goal is to sell 2 million firearms. As part of the challenge, Ruger will donate $2 to the NRA for every new firearm sold […]
Rural Americans Voting GOP
The rural urban divide in America is more pronounced than ever, reports Gracy Olmstead in The American Conservative. America’s geographic, cultural and political polarization is growing even more pronounced. Olmstead writes: A new Pew Research poll suggests that this polarization—across geographic, cultural, and political lines—is growing even more pronounced with time. Our political differences are […]
What do We Americans Stand for Now?
Pat Buchanan, writing at The American Conservative, asks what do we Americans stand for now. With Europe splitting along East-West lines and Russia offering a clearer defense of Western tradition than Western Europe, what is America’s cause in the world? He writes (abridged): What is going on? A scholarly study sums it up: “The statistical […]
“Promises Made, Promises Kept.”
From John Burtka, Executive Director of The American Conservative: Since his inauguration, President Trump has touted the slogan “Promises Made, Promises Kept.” Earlier this afternoon, the president kept a longstanding promise by announcing his intention to pull the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal. Here at The American Conservative, our writers and editors seek to make sense […]
Is Western Civilization Really so Bad?
Robert W. Merry, writing in the 15th anniversary issue of The American Conservative, explains that much of the assault on Western civilization today is really a “political maneuver to favor the so-called victim class.” That victim class, especially on college campuses, has taken wholeheartedly to the idea that it has been oppressed, and that the […]
Thomas Jefferson: Radical and Mischievous?
The American Conservative’s scholar-in-residence, Bradley Birzer, explains that Thomas Jefferson’s favorite works, by Isaac Newton, John Locke and Francis Bacon, were highly intelligent, when grouped together they were also somewhat “radical and mischievous.” This is descriptive duo is apt for the reading material of a man who would help lead his country into one of […]
Tucker Carlson Getting it Right
Writing at The American Conservative, Alan Pell Crawford calls Tucker Carlson a “Grand Inquisitor with a boisterous sense of humor.” And, adds Pell Crawford, despite his mostly mainstream conservative thinking, Carlson challenges traditional thought wherever he sees problems with dogma. He writes: He remains well within the ideological tent on many red meat controversies of […]
The War on Conservative Media
The Internet is filled with stories about conservative web sites and media outlets getting their content banned on social media or YouTube!. But Rod Dreher, writing at The American Conservative lays out just how deep this blacklisting of conservative web sites goes. He writes: Conservatives, old-fashioned liberals, and all other Enemies Of The People had […]
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