2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (822+ words) These are battles in a larger fight over who constitutes the American people, one that escalated with President Biden’s decision to actively facilitate the mass importation of illegal aliens into this country by land, air, and sea. American politics is…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (443+ words) Johann Kurtz’s essay on why younger generations feel left behind economically, even while official statistics from GDP to stock markets send signals that our economy is thriving, touched a nerve. The result is a measurement failure: cheap electronics and rising…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1205+ words) With the release of Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, mankind’s foremost moral authority—a Chicago-born priest and the absolute monarch of the longest-running institution in history—addressed a technology so advanced that even its creators struggle to comprehend it....

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (370+ words) Celebration of the semiquincentennial will not be complete without remembering the only president of the United States born on the Fourth of July: Calvin Coolidge, our 30th president, who was born on July 4, 1872. Like the 6th and 16th presidents, Coolidge saw all of…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (358+ words) You can take the American 20th century as one huge emotional and moral arc. Starting in 1900 and continuing for the ensuing 45 years, our country had its optimism for the future hammered out of it. It was in this era that Jim…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (379+ words) In America, storytelling is not reserved for intellectuals or academic elites. It is a civic practice woven into public life—the task of the people, done by the people, for the people. You are expected to know how to explain…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (557+ words) Trump v. Barbara begs that question. Given several notable parallels between immigration-related exclusions to birthright citizenship and cases poised to arise concerning immigration-status-related exclusions to the apportionment base, it is fair to examine what a future case may hold based on…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (360+ words) Narcissism has given itself a new name: socialism. It shouldn’t come as any surprise that the generation that has grown up scrolling through social media feeds tends to be self-obsessed. This is evident in fewer marriages, lower birth rates, and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (577+ words) This transformation did not happen by accident. It emerged from a series of political choices made over decades, as Maine shifted from a purple state with divided partisan loyalties to a solidly blue state. Environmental organizations, regulatory agencies, political leaders,…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago   (86+ words) What follows is an excerpt from Allen C. Guelzo’s book review, “The Roots of Equality,” from the Summer 2026 issue of the Claremont Review of Books. Read the rest here. The decay of the First Amendment is on display in Virginia. Even…...