American Mind

Columbus Day ought to provoke reflection as much as celebration—and not just because the White House is emphatically committed to the latter. It was…

A young person wanting to learn something of American history could do worse than to watch the works of director John Ford (1894-1973). One…

With 2025’s V-E Day and V-J Day anniversaries behind us, the Second World War will soon be 80 years in history’s rearview mirror. Very…

The assassination of Charlie Kirk was not just evil, it was cowardly—and above all, dishonorable. That an action might be dishonorable used to bother…

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…

The Trump Administration’s approach to the government shutdown is aimed above all at recovering the unitary executive as envisioned by the framers of the…

Loyalty can elevate or enslave. Placed in truth, it anchors. Placed in tribe, it distorts. Though I have known both, I abandoned the latter…

Some years back during a conversation with Charles Murray about his justly praised book Coming Apart, Bill Kristol made perhaps the single most outrageous…

Last week, the federal government “shut down” because the Senate could not get the required 60 votes to invoke cloture and pass a continuing…

At Wired, Laura Bullard writes that “Among the relatively few people associated with National Conservatism who do cite Schmitt openly in their own work…