It is not time for conservation, but for restoration. The post Turn Back appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture Turn Back It is not time for conservation, but for restoration. “Turn back, O man, forswear thy foolish ways,” begins an old Episcopal hymn, from the time before that church became a Vestals cult. Conservatives know our country is declining at an ever-increasing pace. But many seem not to understand how to reverse that decline: turn back to what worked in the past. Common sense should tell us what worked then can work now. Elections provide an example. President Donald Trump has made the electoral process an issue, for good reason. Electronic voting, with everything else electronic, is subject to endless manipulation,…Open
Britain’s late leading playwright existed in the realm of literature, beyond pat political agendas. The post Tom Stoppard: Conservative, Liberal, Englishman appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture Tom Stoppard: Conservative, Liberal, Englishman Britain’s late leading playwright existed in the realm of literature, beyond pat political agendas. In the kind of official occasion now vanishingly rare, on July 9 King Charles and Queen Camilla, leading a large slice of the great and the good in British arts and culture, paid tribute to the playwright Sir Tom Stoppard at a memorial event at the National Theatre in London. Indeed, the death of Stoppard eight months ago (his funeral in Dorset was a small family affair), has been the most resonant cultural news story in Britain in the past several years for reasons both…Open
Remembering Vito Marcantonio, before the DSA panic sets in. The post You Want a Real Commie? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics You Want a Real Commie? Remembering Vito Marcantonio, before the DSA panic sets in. Fox World is all a-twitter because a handful of members or fellow travelers of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are about to be elected to the U.S. Congress and various state legislatures. They’re “godless communists,” according to President Trump, and what with inflation, an insane war, and Trump family grift, we’ll be hearing about commies all election season. Michael “The Other America” Harrington, founder of DSA, was about as threatening as the Mills Brothers. The current DSA candidates seem, at first glance, as…Open
The British state cannot admit that different children require different schools. The post Britain’s Educational Class Warfare appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage Britain’s Educational Class Warfare The British state cannot admit that different children require different schools. UK Special Coverage Photo by Jacob King/PA Images via Getty Images Of all countries on Earth, the UK should be the easiest one to spell. Fortunate, as the country has a new ed-ju-cay-shun sekrettary, Lucy Powell , who thinks spelling tests are “draconian” attempts to “micro-manage” the minds of children, and that “creativity” in such matters ought to be encouraged instead. If she was ever admitted to hospital needing an operation on her ilium , but came out…Open
A new book surveys the right’s dramatic transformation since 2015. The post Why Is This Highly Respected Commentator Smiling? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Books Why Is This Highly Respected Commentator Smiling? A new book surveys the right’s dramatic transformation since 2015. Photo by Mark Makela/Getty Images Whitepill: The Online Right and the Making of Trump’s America by Scott Greer, Passage Publishing, 2026 264 pgs. $34.95 Last month I received an email even more bothersome than the average inbox fodder of a magazine editor. It wasn’t a barely English, 3,000-word cold submission on “the political philosophy of Sydney Sweeney’s subversive sex appeal,” which, come to think of it, would probably do numbers for the website. It was instead about a piece already…Open
A book from one of the architects of Leave shows how accidents of circumstance and a few personalities determined the UK’s future. The post The Brexit Miracle, Ten Years On appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs The Brexit Miracle, Ten Years On A book from one of the architects of Leave shows how accidents of circumstance and a few personalities determined the UK’s future. Ten Years On: The Untold Story of Brexit – Reflections on a Life of Campaigning, by Matthew Elliott “Even now, people call the Brexit vote a victory for right-wing populism … They are right that Brexit was a victory for populism; they are wrong to think it was for the right-wing kind,” says Matthew Elliott in Ten Years On, which is certain to be the most insightful and honest telling of…Open
On the first and second days of his second term as president of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump issued two Executive Orders, “Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing” on January 20, and “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” on January 21. These two directives serve as a watershed […] The post Trump’s Successful Campaign Against DEI appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Politics Trump’s Successful Campaign Against DEI The administration has made serious progress toward ending antiwhite racism and restoring equality under the law. On the first and second days of his second term as president of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump issued two Executive Orders, “Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing” on January 20, and “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” on January 21. These two directives serve as a watershed and turning point in, and arguably the end of, a…Open
Michael Anton’s new book on the early modern political theorist has much to recommend it, dubious gematria aside. The post The Straussian Machiavelli? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture The Straussian Machiavelli? Michael Anton’s new book on the early modern political theorist has much to recommend it, dubious gematria aside. Michael Anton, Studies in Machiavellian Political Philosophy (New York City and London: Encounter Books, 2026) 451+XVI pp. Reading Michael Anton’s book of well-wrought essays is like eavesdropping on a private conversation. A deeply committed Straussian, Anton addresses others of his persuasion, among them Tom West, Harvey Mansfield, Leo Paul de Alvarez, and the tutelary spirit of the movement’s founder, Leo Strauss (1899–1973). Although the central theme of this anthology seems to be a proper reading of Machiavelli’s The Prince and Discourses,…Open
It is not difficult to project what comes next in Gaza. The post Conquest, Expulsion, Settlement appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Conquest, Expulsion, Settlement It is not difficult to project what comes next in Gaza. This article is adapted from the introduction to a new edition of Creating Facts: Israel, Palestinians and the West Bank, published by the Institute for Palestine Studies. The maximalist agenda of Israel’s settlement movement has been energized by the calamity of the Second War for Palestine. The “Conquest” of Gaza, the “Expulsion” of its 2.1 million residents, followed by the “Settlement” of the Gaza Strip are the unabashed objectives of the ideological vanguard of Israel’s twenty-first century settlement…Open
The administration is trying to make fundamental, long-term changes to how personnel are selected. The post Can Trump Change the State Department for Good? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Can Trump Change the State Department for Good? The administration is trying to make fundamental, long-term changes to how personnel are selected. Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Andrew Crapuchettes is a man with a mission. He wants to bring patriotic values to government employment recruiting, and he wants to personally help implement Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s mandate to reform the Department of State to better represent those values abroad long past the end of the Trump administration. Can he do it? Crapuchettes earlier this spring received an almost $1 million contract to act…Open