The United States Of America: The Good – The Bad – The Ugly
The United States of America has been passing through an exceptionally complex set of domestic and foreign crises since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the beginning of the…
To Renew America, Look to the Past
America is disjointed. Its people have split into factions. The government is dysfunctional, and the economy is beginning to sour. Nearly two-thirds of the nation say things are on the…
The Curious Case Of The United States Of America
Geza Hofi, the brilliant late Hungarian comedian, in one of his politically charged monologues, delivered in the Madach Kamara Theater in Budapest, described post-Communist Hungary in the late 1990s thus: “The…
Mystic Chords of Memory: Learning From the American Story
Every generation of Americans, from the beginning, has had to answer for itself the question: how should we live? Our answers, generation after generation, in war and in peace, in…
So Long, Tom Terrific
A bit of my childhood died this week, when I learned Tom Seaver, the Hall of Fame pitcher and greatest Met to ever wear the uniform, had died on Monday, reportedly from…
Democratic Capitalism: The American way
Before Capitalism Through most of human history, there have been two ways by which humans have organized themselves: tribal and totalitarian. Tribes were based on families which came together to…
Rediscovering the Wisdom in American History
Professional American historiography has made steady advances in the breadth and sophistication with which it approaches certain aspects of the past, but those advances have come at the expense of…
American Nationalism: It’s Real…and It’s Spectacular
On Tuesday night my CNN colleague Chris Cuomo correctly asserted that I, and people like me, embrace terms such as “nationalist” and “America First” — phrases that are, in his view, “stained.”…
On The Fourth of July, We Celebrate the Uniqueness of America — Defined in the Declaration of Independence
By Andy Puzder • Fox News On the Fourth of July we proudly celebrate the day 13 colonies became states and those states became a nation. But there was far…
Restoring American Exceptionalism
President Obama has dangerously surrendered the nation’s global leadership, but it can be ours again—if we choose his successor wisely. By Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney • …
The Idiocy of Modern American Politics
by Dr. Miklós K. Radványi Politics, with its ambition for boundless expansion into the lives of individuals and societies, is a human activity that overwhelmingly attracts narcissists of all types…
American Ineffectualism
Every American ally is cringing with embarrassment at the amateurishness of the last month. by Mark Steyn For generations, eminent New York Times wordsmiths have swooned over foreign strongmen, from…
America is Exceptional
by Carl M. Cannon The evidence that Vladimir Putin — and not his American public relations firm — really wrote the pugnacious New York Times op-ed on Syria that infuriated…
Around the World: Why Obama gets no respect
by Linda Chavez President Obama’s decision to cancel his planned trip to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin was the right thing to do in light of Russia’s…
Why the Founders Matter: Securing the Blessing of Liberty to Ourselves and Our Posterity
A Vision of the Spirit and Promise of Our Founding Fathers by Scott L. Vanatter The things of politics and public policy are of deep import. It takes time, experience,…