American Mind

The assassins who conspired against Julius Caesar could have stabbed their victim in the street, but they chose to commit their crime in the…

D.C. wasn’t supposed to be like this. Hard as it is to believe today, the capital was set apart as its own district not…

“Ana minkum wa ileikum,” shouted 34-year-old Zohran Mamdani, newly elected mayor of New York, to the heaving crowd in Brooklyn’s Paramount Theater just before…

As part of its celebration of the 250th anniversary of American independence, the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life has published…

Foreign policy and international relations are not disconnected from domestic politics—they are intimately intertwined. As I previously argued at The American Mind, the downsides…

One of the most striking features of the Trump Administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy is not merely what it argues, but how it argues….

Ladies and gentlemen: it is a great pleasure to be with you tonight in the People’s Republic of New York. Two days ago the…

The American Mind’s ‘Editorial Roundtable’ podcast is a weekly conversation with Ryan Williams, Spencer Klavan, and Mike Sabo devoted to uncovering the ideas and…

Conservative jurisprudence has been casting about for over 40 years, trying to find an anchoring ground or even a stable definition of “originalism.” But…

The Trump Administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) provides a rare official statement on the main threats facing the United States, as well as…