Nationalism & Globalism in American Politics

By |2025-06-28T19:41:06-05:00June 27th, 2025|Categories: American Republic, Donald Trump, Globalism, Nationalism, Politics, Presidency, Teddy Roosevelt|

In both rhetoric and substance, the ideologies of globalism and nationalism have been playing a major role in current events and controversies. How have they shaped American and world attitudes and actions over centuries? Introduction The current controversy about the violent riots in Los Angeles and President Trump’s military response to them is part of [...]

Remembering Ronald Reagan

By |2025-06-04T11:52:11-05:00June 4th, 2025|Categories: Barbara J. Elliott, Conservatism, Leadership, Presidency, Ronald Reagan, Timeless Essays|

Ronald Reagan was truly a great president who led our nation through a critical period in our history, demonstrating tenacity, courage and faith. He faced down an enemy and never blinked. He inspired Americans to look to our better angels and reminded us that we hold the potential within us to do great things, with [...]

How Should We Rank the American Presidents?

By |2025-02-16T18:58:39-06:00February 16th, 2025|Categories: American Founding, American Republic, Books, Constitution, Featured, Presidency, Stephen M. Klugewicz, Timeless Essays|

Traditional rankings of the American presidents ask whether our chief executives did what was necessary for the good of the country. But should we look to their fidelity to the Constitution as a better way to evaluate their behavior in office? 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America: And Four Who Tried to Save Her, by [...]

Donald Trump and Daniel Boorstin’s “The Image”

By |2025-02-06T10:21:16-06:00February 6th, 2025|Categories: Books, Donald Trump, History, Presidency|

“The book that explains Trump’s dominance may well have been published in 1962.” Or so contend the editors of the Atlantic Monthly. Amazon apparently agrees, since its blurb to promote current sales of Daniel Boorstin’s The Image borrows directly from the editors of the Atlantic and their leap into an increasingly distant past. But is [...]

Lee Edwards: A Life in Pursuit of Liberty

By |2025-01-30T15:13:05-06:00January 30th, 2025|Categories: Books, Conservatism, Federalism, Libertarians, Presidency|

If a single descriptor would define conservative activist and scholar, Lee Edwards, it would have to be Lee Edwards, anti-communist. And that would be anti-communism at home and abroad. Just Right: A Life in Pursuit of Liberty by Lee Edwards. (378 pages, Regnery, 2024) If the repeated call of the old Popular Front was “no [...]

The Second Trump Administration: Back to the Future?

By |2025-01-24T01:24:07-06:00January 19th, 2025|Categories: David Deavel, Donald Trump, Government, Hope, Politics, Presidency, Senior Contributors|

Donald Trump has a second chance, with a much better understanding of how things work in Washington and whom to trust there, to have a transformative presidency. The absurdity is finally over. Almost. The insanity of the national Democrats we have seen over the last four years, particularly since Donald Trump’s November defeat of Kamala [...]

Hail to the Chief! Music for American Presidents

By |2025-01-20T17:44:48-06:00January 19th, 2025|Categories: Audio/Video, Music, Presidency, Stephen M. Klugewicz, Timeless Essays|

We Americans like to think of ourselves as anti-monarchical; most of us on the Right are self-styled small-r republicans, while Leftists think of themselves as small-d democrats. In addition, we all, Right and Left, fancy that what unites Americans is devotion to a set of ideas to which we all adhere, and which are best [...]

Jimmy Carter & John Lennon’s Leftist Anthem

By |2025-01-12T12:01:44-06:00January 12th, 2025|Categories: Christianity, Communism, Dwight Longenecker, Music, Presidency, Religion, Senior Contributors|

Jimmy Carter was a nice, good man who epitomized American Christianity’s reduction to Moralistic, Therapeutic Deism. As such, the singing of John Lennon's atheistic "Imagine"—Carter's favorite song—at the former president's funeral was entirely appropriate. Last week at former president Jimmy Carter’s funeral, country singers Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood sang ex-Beatle John Lennon’s song Imagine, [...]

JFK’s Other Assassination

By |2024-06-30T18:18:51-05:00June 30th, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, Foreign Affairs, History, Joseph Pearce, Presidency, Senior Contributors, Unsung Heroes of Christendom, War|

Ngo Dinh Diem, the first President of South Vietnam, and JFK were both Catholics, though Catholics of very different persuasions. Landscape The assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963, was one of the landmark moments and one of the most remembered events in twentieth-century history. The assassination of President Diem of Vietnam [...]

The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt

By |2024-06-24T16:55:37-05:00June 24th, 2024|Categories: Books, History, Presidency, Progressivism, Republicans|

It’s entirely possible to imagine Theodore Roosevelt becoming President of the United States, even a Rushmore-eligible president, with an entirely different set of female loves. But it’s much less likely. The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President, by Edward F. O’Keefe. (446 pages, Simon and Schuster, 2024) Try as he might, [...]

Should We Celebrate Presidents’ Day, or Washington’s Birthday?

By |2024-02-18T16:09:00-06:00February 18th, 2024|Categories: American Republic, Constitution, George Washington, Gleaves Whitney, Presidency, Timeless Essays|

People ask why a few of us presidential junkies would like to see Presidents’ Day changed back to Washington’s Birthday. The technical explanation has to do with a misguided law called HR 15951 that was passed in 1968 to make federal holidays less complicated. The real answer is simply this: George Washington is our greatest [...]

The Measure of Abraham Lincoln

By |2024-02-11T23:10:29-06:00February 11th, 2024|Categories: Abraham Lincoln, Conservatism, Essential, Featured, Presidency, RAK, Russell Kirk, Timeless Essays|

Abraham Lincoln never was a doctrinaire; he rose from very low estate to very high estate, and he knew the savagery which lies so close beneath the skin of man, and he knew that most men are good only out of obedience to routine and convention. Whatever the result of the convulsion whose first shocks [...]

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