Is Islamism an Ideological Threat to Europe?
Few names have had more maledictions heaped on them by the pro-Islamic media than that of Dutch politician Geert Wilders. In particular, the incendiary politico has faced…
Suburban Reactionary: An Interview with Peachy Keenan
Peachy Keenan is the author of Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture Wars (Regnery, 2023). She is a regular contributor to The American Mind.…
The Tyranny of Localism?
According to a recent survey, those who are happy value community involvement.[1] A mere 12% of Americans now claim to be very happy, the lowest reported number…
The Blessings of Liberty: Reminders from Aristotle and Livy For Our Troubled Times
Let [the reader] follow in his mind how, as discipline broke down bit by bit, morality at first foundered; how it next subsided in ever greater collapse…
President James Monroe and Republican Virtue
Whatever his failings as an imaginative thinker, President James Monroe’s own convictions were rooted deeply in the spirit and the letter of the U.S. Constitution. As he…
Liberalism after Liberalism
In 1998, Robert Greene released his now famous The 48 Laws of Power. The book became extremely popular, eventually selling over 1.2 million copies and having a…
Liberalism and Its Discontents: Waller R. Newell’s Tyranny and Revolution: Rousseau to Heidegger
Today’s political discourse is rife with the prognosis that liberalism is in trouble, evidenced by the rise of anti-liberal and post-liberal thought, each of which maintains that…
Cosmopolitan Europe or a Europe of Nations?
There is a fairly common attitude among Eurocrats that a good crisis should not go to waste. And the ideal solution to a crisis is to move…
Electric Birds
Out in that vast dark we had to keep sight Of what brought us to that desert kingdom, Beneath which swam the darkest currency. Soldiers to the…
Consolation and Lamentation in the City of Man
Of late, much ruckus has been raised around the “feverish city” we currently endure. Within the intellectual civil war currently taking place in the conservative movement, it…
The Good Old Days of the Good Old Boys
Throughout the America of the twenty-first century there is a strong sense that the media is biased and purely spreading propaganda in support of one of the…
Values vs. Virtue
Today’s discourse is all about values. We shouldn’t obey certain laws or enforce certain policies because they are against “one’s values” the common saying goes. We send…
Nino Scalia, The Making of an Originalist
Few names are more significant in conservative legal philosophy than Antonin Scalia, or Nino as he was known to his friends. The first Italian-American Supreme Court justice,…
Have Conservatives Misunderstood Allan Bloom?
The Closing of the American Mind is not conservative, especially not in the sense of preserving the foundational values and beliefs of Western Civilization. Nonetheless, it is…
The Wisdom of the Ancients
“The west does not die when nations do.” In his classic 1991 tome Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Marxist philosopher Frederic Jameson presents…