2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (859+ words) The American Conservative Netflix’s 9/11 Documentary Is Too Big for its Runtime Turning Point never settles on what it’s actually arguing. Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Much of the director Brian Knappenberger’s…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (217+ words) The conflagrations in France provide an occasion for deciding what is actually valuable. I was prey to strange thoughts and emotions. My library, for example, is in effect an autobiography that only I can read. There is evidence in it…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (604+ words) Teetotaling youngsters may find they are missing out on an important part of life. Older adults, according to new data from the UK, are 50 percent more likely than those under 40 to be regular drinkers. Alcohol consumption in the USA, meanwhile,…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (258+ words) In a 2011 Labor Day column, our co-founder Pat Buchanan described the transformation of the American social contract in the postwar period. “What happened to this idea that made America a self-sufficient republic, producing almost all it consumed, a nation that…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (784+ words) The American Conservative Democratic Stupidities of America The same old revolutionary canards may find new purchase in a battered middle class. A friend of mine, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, wrote a seminal book on democracy some time ago called Democracy: The God…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (653+ words) theamericanconservative.com The GOP’s John Fetterman Wildcard In the Senate, Democrats could win a majority and still end up losing. With just over two months until the midterms, there is good reason to believe polling that suggests Democrats will win…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1620+ words) It is easier to describe problems than to solve them. The post Burnham’s Parliamentary Debut: Successful Diagnosis, Unclear Prescriptions appeared first on The American Conservative. Burnham’s Parliamentary Debut: Successful Diagnosis, Unclear Prescriptions It is easier to describe problems than to…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (329+ words) The Brits have to pay for their mind-addling soap opera with their tax money. Here’s an ex-editor of mine—who once told an owner who wanted me fired that if Taki went so did he, and who later also served…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (468+ words) Covid and peak woke deepened the right’s antipathy to social dictates. Conservative intellectuals have spent the past month fiercely debating the “common good.” On one side are those who believe that government policy should operate on this principle (however it’s…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (413+ words) Other historical analogies offer more relevant lessons. In 1919, John Maynard Keynes left the Paris Peace Conference convinced the Allies were making a blunder of historic proportions. In The Economic Consequences of the Peace, he prophesied that the terms imposed by…...