Last week, “conservative” Michael Anton at American Greatness published a lengthy hit piece on yours truly. He didn’t like my attack on the 1776 Commission in Chronicles magazine, and he was clearly personally insulted that I called out some of the people who wrote the report. These are his friends, and he circled the wagons. I can respect that. I do the same for my …more
“Conservative” historian Allen Guelzo thinks he has an answer to the modern debate over American monuments. First, anything that honors John C. Calhoun should not just be destroyed, it should be put on a rocket and launched into the sun. Second, he has a five point test to determine if a monument is good or bad. You can imagine how this is going to go. …more
In 1896, conservative Democrats bolted the part and formed a splinter party known as the National Democratic Party, or NDP. They produced a “campaign handbook” outlining their political principles, and they focused on real issues and constitutional restraint. How refreshing. They also nominated a truly “national” ticket for the time by selecting John Palmer for President and Simon Buckner for Vice-President. Palmer was a Union …more
Book publishing isn’t an easy game. Most books never sell more than one thousand copies. Nonfiction is the most difficult market of all, and with the proliferation of self-publishing, everyone has a book. This isn’t a bad development. Many people have an idea they want to market and they work hard to do it. The recent brick and mortar book store apocalypse has made getting …more
Glenn Ellmers wonders if America is too unified. This is a stunning confession. Ellmers is a disciple of Harry Jaffa. If you don’t know Jaffa, he long argued secession was illegal. Ellmers still thinks so, but if the other States agreed to boot out some of the red States, then perhaps secession could be constitutional. That would be the only way, however. This is a …more
Joe Biden took center stage last week on the eve of his “100th day” in office. We can thank FDR for such idiotic benchmarks. No one asked Washington what we hoped to accomplish in his first 100 days. That would have been an interesting question then, but as the president was never intended to be everything in chief, no one bothered to bring it up. …more
Fisher Ames had a devastating wit and used it quite effectively against his opposition, often Southern members of Congress. I don’t often agree with what Ames had to say, but even when I don’t, he could be very funny. Ames would have given Trump a run on Twitter. Ames had two redeeming qualities: he detested democracy and he favored secession. All of the our little …more
The term “originalism” can be a bit confusing. What does this actually mean? Are the terms “originalism” and “textualism” the same thing? If someone calls themselves an “originalist,” does that mean they think women shouldn’t vote and that black Americans should be counted as 3/5ths of a person toward representation? Of course not, but this is how progressives like to play emotional games with stupid …more
Florida is reading leftist losers the riot act. I love it. They hate it. Ron DeSantis has been doing a great job pushing back against wokism for the last several months and in the process has taken on the corporate press and all the sludge it drags with it. Most normal Americans would look at the Florida anti-rioting act and think, “Sure, we shouldn’t allow …more
Senate Democrats are going to vote on making Washington D.C. the 51st State. House Dems already have. Well, sort of. They actually know this would be illegal, so as a work around they’re going to carve out a small portion of the city to leave as the federal capitol and take the rest to make the “Washington Douglass Commonwealth.” This is a pipe dream for …more
Most Americans recognize a few of the Founding Fathers—Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, Franklin—but what about some of the important but forgotten men who have been lost to time? They have great stories that need to be told. Here are ten whose fantastic lives are in many ways better than fiction.
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