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Current Issue: Summer 2026

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Bill Clinton, Jeffrey Epstein, and the Questions That Won’t Go Away
by Ellie Gardey Holmes
Green Energy Reels From Major Defeats, but the Battle Continues
by Buck Throckmorton
Champagne Socialism Comes to America
by Anne Bradley
Celebrate Good Times
by Wlady Pleszczynski
America on the Brink
by Melissa Mackenzie
Be Not Afraid: Fear, Pope Leo, and Donald Trump
by Paul Kengor
The Left’s War on Tips Is Making Everyone Worse Off
by C. Jarrett Dieterle
What Post-Woke America Must Learn From the Fall of the Soviet Union
by Neeraja Deshpande
In an Age Hungry for Meaning, the Cello’s Voice Lingers
by Lars Møller
Eric Swalwell and the Decline of Media Objectivity
by David Catron
The Continued Case for Trump
by Jeffrey Lord
Why Young People Need a Patriotic Education
by Mike Pence
Why the West Needs the American Founding
by Samuel Gregg

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Past Issue: Spring 2025

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Trump’s Reinvigoration of the Monroe Doctrine Informs His Turn to Greenland
by Francis P. Sempa
Trump’s Electric Vehicle Rollback Helps Consumers, Won’t Hurt Climate
by Steven Greenhut
Trump’s Bold AI Blueprint
by Leonora Cravotta
Why Trump Should Act Against Abortion
by S.A. McCarthy
Trump’s Strong-Arm Tactics Convince Mexico to Take Action Against Cartels
by Daniel J. Flynn
Real Military Reform Begins
by Gary Anderson
Your Facebook Friends Are Wrong About Educational Freedom
by Colleen Hroncich
Trump’s First Month With Israel and Gaza Echoes Biblical Kings Cyrus and Darius
by Dov Fischer
Conservative Filmmakers Are Changing Hollywood
by Bruce Bawer
Trump’s ‘No Tax on Tips’ Pledge Could Shape His Political Destiny
by Grover Norquist
Trump Takes a Wrecking Ball to DEI
by Seth Forman
Inside the Method to Elon Musk’s Madness
by Stephan Kapustka
MAGA + MAHA + MATA: Reagan’s Three-Legged Stool Now Has Six
by Amile Wilson
Trump 2.0 Exposes Deep Democrat Rot
by David Catron
God and Donald Trump
by Paul Kengor
How Conservatives Can Maintain Their Dominance Post-Trump
by Henry Olsen
Donald Trump: Demolition Man
by Melissa Mackenzie

Past Issue: Fall 2024

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Victims Strip the Mask From the Gender Ideology Cult
by Mary Margaret Olohan
How Naivety Is Allowing Unbiblical Progressivism Into Evangelical Churches
by Megan Basham
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI
by Leonora Cravotta
The Battle Tactic That Will Shut Down Pornhub
by Laila Mickelwait
How to Renew Society’s Commitment to Marriage
by Mary Frances Devlin
A Short History of Conservative Bickering and Its Current Uses
by Daniel J. Flynn
How Democrat Lawfare Launched Trump’s Comeback
by David Catron
Wilfred Reilly Exposes Liberal Historical Myths
by Stephan Kapustka
How Trump Became an American Hero
by Bruce Bawer
Who Is Kamala Harris?
by Dov Fischer
Americans Are Leaving Liberal States for Stronger Community Ties
by Andrew Isker
I Urged Ronald Reagan to Build a Conservative Counterculture
by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
The Republican Party Erred in Abandoning Its Pro-Life Platform
by Tony Perkins
The Case for Christian Conservatism
by S.A. McCarthy
A Conservative Realist Foreign Policy for the Twenty-First Century
by Francis P. Sempa
Unchecked Immigration Has Transformed America
by Seth Forman
Reagan Conservatism Is Alive and Well
by Paul Kengor
Making the Shining City on the Hill Great Again
by Melissa Mackenzie
The Rightward Rebellion: Why Young Men Are Flocking to Conservatism
by Nate Hochman
How Kamala Bested Newsom in Their Decades-Long Feud
by Ellie Gardey Holmes

Past Issue: Spring 2024

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Living Crucifixes: The Phenomenon of Stigmata
by Paul Kengor
The Affirmative Action Roots of Campus Antisemitism
by Seth Forman
How a Church Fought Back Against a Liberal Takeover — And Won
by Tom Raabe
Eastern Orthodoxy: Why an Ancient Faith Grows in Modern Times
by Steven Greenhut
Young Believers Are Fueling a Renaissance of Catholic Culture
by Mary Frances Devlin
The Catholic Church in China Has Been Co-Opted by the Communist Party
by Matthew Omolesky
The Religious Bifurcation Splitting America’s Future
by Ryan Burge
Chaplains Needed
by Luther Ray Abel
Anthony Esolen Exposes Modern Liberal Fallacies in The Lies of Our Time
by Leonora Cravotta
A Rabbi, a Pastor, and a Bishop Defend a Shared Goal
by Dov Fischer
Pope Francis’s Decade-long Reign Removes Church From Crucial Moral Debates
by Samuel Gregg
Christianity Is Simply More Fun
by Itxu Díaz
Techno-Religion Will Snare the Unbeliever
by Joe Allen
God’s Call to the Heart: Pascal’s Insight Into Faith Beyond Reason
by Anthony Esolen
The Supreme Court’s Religious Retreat
by Gerard V. Bradley
A Clash of Sacred Sounds: Ancient Liturgical Music vs. Contemporary Praise and Worship
by Aubrey Harris
Those Who Disavow God Entrust Their Faith to Aliens and Bigfoot
by Daniel J. Flynn
Witchcraft, a Multi-Billion-Dollar Industry, Is Rapidly Evangelizing
by Ellie Gardey Holmes
The Gospel of Discontent: How Feminism Shattered Our Understanding of Motherhood
by Carrie Gress

Past Issue: Summer 2023

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College Past Its Decline
by Wlady Pleszczynski
How to Find an Evangelical College That Isn’t Woke
by David Ayers
Milton Friedman’s Victory
by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
Dewey’s Destruction: The Ideas and Influence of the Pioneer of Public Education
by Paul Kengor
Adaptive Apps: New Technology Adjusts Lessons Based on Students’ Skill Levels
by Kate Alexandra
The Man Who Made Notre Dame
by Mary Frances Devlin
Education Has Reached Peak Absurdity, But There Is Hope
by Melissa Mackenzie
How Teachers Unions Co-Opted School Boards
by David Catron
Give Your Kids the Gift of Parochial School
by Dov Fischer
Current Wisdom: A Special Education Edition
by Assorted Jackasses
Education Under Siege: Two New Books Discuss the Ongoing Battle
by Leonora Cravotta
The Painter and the Chatbot: Artificial Intelligence and the Perils of Progress
by Matthew Omolesky
The Military Academies Have Turned Into Woke Wastelands
by Francis P. Sempa
School Choice Is Empowering Students and Teachers — And Devastating Unions
by Jarrett Skorup
Let Kids Drop Out: Why Compulsory Education Harms Even the Most Gifted Students
by Shelby Kearns
The War on Men Continues on Campus
by Jennifer Kabbany
How to Stay Conservative in College
by Marlo Slayback
The Biden Administration’s Title IX Revisions Provoke Backlash From Left and Right
by Tom Raabe
University of Pennsylvania Versus Amy Wax
by Richard K. Vedder
An Obstacle to the Left’s Defense of Affirmative Action: Race Is a Biological Myth
by Ellie Gardey Holmes
Monks, Government, and Booze
by C. Jarrett Dieterle
Grade Inflation: A Problem With Two Sides to Blame
by Julie Gunlock
There Is Nothing Worth Saving in America’s Public Schools
by Mary Rice Hasson
Shut Down the Department of Education
by Betsy DeVos
Faithful Catholic Institutions Defy Trend of Secularization
by Anne Hendershott
A Practical Remedy for University Cancel Culture
by Bradley C. S. Watson
The Birthplace of Woke: Identity Studies in Academia
by Bruce Bawer
To Hell With the Universities
by John Jiang
Who Let Roderick Spode Edit Jeeves?
by Daniel J. Flynn

Fall 2022

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Florida’s Future Is Bright Red
by Larry Thornberry
Serious and Funny
by Byron York
The Road to Dobbs
by Tom Raabe
How to Bowl Alone
by Nic Rowan
The Cockroach and the Sparrow
by Matthew Omolesky
How Will Newsom Play in the Rest of the Nation?
by Steven Greenhut
Leave the Crickets Alone!
by Itxu Díaz
The Catholic Case Against Communism
by Paul Kengor
Institutional Capture: It Can Happen Here
by Bradley C. S. Watson
The $ecret to Democrats’ Midterm Success
by Daniel J. Flynn
Becoming Billy Wilder
by Leonora Cravotta
When the Taiwan War Will Happen
by John Jiang
Learning to Read
by Hannah Rowan
Good Living in Gomorrah on the Potomac
by Kevin Kosar
Cancel the Personal Income Tax
by Grover Norquist
The Transgender Menace
by Bruce Bawer
The Senate’s Mitch McConnell Problem
by Jeffrey Lord
Churches Still Haven’t Recovered From Pandemic Anti-Christian Discrimination
by Ellie Gardey Holmes
Biden Tanks U.S. Energy Economy
by Jordan McGillis
Who Run the World?
by Melissa Mackenzie
The Red Ripple
by Scott McKay
Waving Goodbye to the Red Wave
by Wlady Pleszczynski

Spring 2022

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Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger’s Vendetta Politics
by Jeffrey Lord
The COVID Aftermath: Repentance and Reconciliation
by Matt Shapiro
China’s COVID Surveillance State and Its Western Imitators
by John Jiang
What Is Happiness Good For?
by J. Budziszewski
The Deeply Satisfying Destruction of the Ruling Elite
by Scott McKay
The Jan. 6 Committee’s Bogus Insurrection Incitement Charge
by George Parry
The Gayest Generation
by Daniel J. Flynn
The West’s War on Dissent
by Bruce Bawer
A Deal With the Dragon
by Leonora Cravotta
Warnings From Watergate for the January 6 Committee
by Geoff Shepard
Teenage Dream
by Nic Rowan
Count Communist
by Hannah Rowan
Paganism Casts Its Spell Over Methodist Seminary
by Ellie Gardey Holmes
Free to Choose: The Rise of Non-Alcoholic Booze
by C. Jarrett Dieterle
Brady Is Back
by W. James Antle III
Holding Fast to Good Things
by Matthew Walther
The Theft of a Nation: Ukraine’s Fight for Existence
by Matthew Omolesky
Supersizing the IRS: Another Big, Bad Biden Idea
by Grover Norquist
The Biden Price Hike
by Marc Carnegie
Homage to Ukraina
by Wlady Pleszczynski
Blame Biden
by Melissa Mackenzie

Fall 2021

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The Church Caves in the Age of COVID
by George Neumayr
It Is Casey, Not Roe, on Trial Before the Supreme Court
by Margot Cleveland
COVID Zero Is the Technocracy’s Test Run
by John Jiang
Social Conservatives Have Something to Say on Every Issue
by Saurabh Sharma
From Conservatism to Revivalism
by Scott McKay
Will the Real Obsolete Man Please Stand Up?
by Daniel J. Flynn
Is Pegasus Peeping on Your iPhone?
by J. Arthur Bloom
A Flight Into Death: Sigmund Freud, Byung-Chul Han, and the Decadence of Late Liberalism
by Matthew Omolesky
Pornhub, OnlyFans, and How Financial Institutions Are Aiming to Curb Sex Trafficking Online
by Laila Mickelwait
Will America Grow Up?
by Melissa Mackenzie
President Kamala?
by George Parry
An Interview With James O’Keefe
by The Editors
Investigating the Human Trafficking of Aborted Infants
by David Daleiden
Afghanistan: How It Became America’s Disaster
by Frank Schell
The Left Relegates Black Americans to Another Generation of Disadvantage
by Dov Fischer
The Supreme Court May Rule on Affirmative Action — But What Happens Afterwards?
by Ellie Gardey Holmes
The United States Cannot Ignore Arctic Security
by Evan Maguire
How to Fight Wokeness
by Christopher F. Rufo
The Teen Trans Craze
by Abigail Shrier
Minding Joe
by Wlady Pleszczynski

Summer 2021

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Follow The Washington Trail: New Cloak and Dagger Mystery Lampoons DC Corruption
by Leonora Cravotta
Major-League Sports Faces Major-League Problems
by Larry Thornberry
Biden Follows California’s High-Tax Lead
by Steven Greenhut
China Will Win Only if America Allows It
by John Jiang
China’s Spectral State
by Matthew Omolesky
Deregulated Drinking: A Rare Pandemic Pick-Me-Up
by C. Jarrett Dieterle
The Death of Technocracy
by Matt Shapiro
Democrats’ Third Wave: Victory or Death
by Grover Norquist
It’s That ’70s Show … Again
by Scott McKay
Biden’s Administrative State Erases Trump’s Deregulatory Initiatives
by Kevin Kosar
Housing Crunch Points to Massive Market Meltdown
by James Howard Kunstler
Upward and Outward: America on the Move
by Joel Kotkin
Joe Biden: A Meditation
by Wlady Pleszczynski
Sandcastles
by Melissa Mackenzie

Winter 2020

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WWE: Wrestling Without Entertainment
by Daniel J. Flynn
Biden Won’t Follow Trump’s Path to Middle East Peace
by Jed Babbin
On the Trail With Ronald Reagan
by Nic Rowan
Whither the Judicial Wars Under President Joe Biden?
by Doug Bandow
Retrofitting the Suburbs
by Clive Aslet
Biden’s Presidential Strategy: Don’t Touch Anything
by Itxu Díaz
Believers Gonna Believe: The Young American Transition From Religion to Wokeness
by Wilfred Reilly
COVID and the Illusion of Control
by Phil Kerpen
Joe’s Got a Deal For You!
by Eric Peters
Can Minneapolis Make a Comeback?
by John Hinderaker
A Tale of Two New Yorks
by Karol Markowicz
Confessions of a Sports Dropout
by Larry Thornberry
Crashing the ‘Party of Science’
by Matt Shapiro
President Biden Will Try to California-ize the Nation
by Steven Greenhut
The Salt That Has Lost Its Savor: The Woke Church and the Undoing of America
by Larry Alex Taunton
Your Guide to the Only Manhattan Worth Visiting
by Tony Woodlief
The Politics of Patrisse Cullors, Founder of Black Lives Matter
by Paul Kengor
How Republicans Can Keep Rebuilding the COVID Economy
by Grover Norquist
Political Pollsters and Other False Prophets
by David Catron
What to Expect From a Biden White House
by George Neumayr
How About a Nice Game of Election While Biden Visits the Tomb of the Unknown Voter?
by Dov Fischer
The Pleasure of His Company
by Wlady Pleszczynski
Publisher’s Note: Misty 2020 Memories
by Melissa Mackenzie
Hollywood: No Man’s Land
by Lou Aguilar
Pandemics and Prohibition: 100 Years Later
by C. Jarrett Dieterle
The Year of Conservative Women
by Jessica Anderson
China’s Very Good Year
by John Jiang
Biden Justice Department Will Resume Reprogramming the Police
by Andrew C. McCarthy
‘Transwomen Are Women’ and Other Polite Lies
by Abigail Shrier
Cuffing Season and Our Epidemic of Loneliness
by Amile Wilson
Canceling Christmas? The Church’s Response to Coronavirus
by Jon Gabriel
The Spiritual Mob
by Matthew Omolesky

Summer 2020

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It’s Not Good
by Wlady Pleszczynski
My Money Is on the President
by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
Mr. Manners
by Daniel J. Flynn
Wine Not?
by Eddie Burkhalter
Still Life With Women and Ironies
by Franklin Einspruch
Live Music Goes Viral
by Jaylin Hawkins
Post-Pandemic Foreign Policy
by Jed Babbin
A Moveable Feast: Fast Food and the Pandemic
by Nic Rowan
The Frontier Code Is a Cherished Gift
by Roger Kaplan
Corona Fever Kiboshes the Car Biz
by Eric Peters
Rush Limbaugh, Exceptional American
by Scot Bertram
A Glimpse Into Trump’s White House
by George Goss
Coronavirus and the Ceremony of Innocence
by David Catron
The Conservative Revolution Will Be Televised
by Lou Aguilar
After Coronavirus, the Countryside
by Clive Aslet
Rap Music: An American Delight
by Karol Markowicz
A Silver Lining Over the Atlantic
by Robert Taylor
Colleges and COVID-19
by Paul Kengor
Escape to Alcatraz
by Edward Grossman
The American Dream in 2020
by Larry Thornberry
Après le Déluge
by Joseph Bottum
New York Owes America an Apology
by Robert Stacy McCain
Coming to Terms With Contact Tracing
by Matt Shapiro
Superhero Movies: An American Invention
by Haley Victory Smith
Let Them Go on Welfare
by Steven Greenhut
Come Hell or Hell-Raising
by Mark Hemingway
Comeback 2.0
by Grover Norquist
Tough Summer? Time for a Road Trip!
by Matt Pinnell
Get Up, America
by Melissa Mackenzie
As America Recovers From the Coronavirus, MAGYA
by Dov Fischer
Those Wicked Sons of Heaven
by Matthew Omolesky

Fall 2019

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Two Years of Writing for The American Spectator
by Dov Fischer
Trump Should Play the 19th Amendment Card in 2020
by David Catron
Security and Statesmanship
by Jed Babbin
Josh Hawley Is Dead Serious About Social Media Addiction
by John Jiang
Trump Versus … Bernie?
by Scott McKay
Beware the Feedback Loop
by Matt Shapiro
Red John Brennan
by George Neumayr
Nationalism: Many Strands, Many Misunderstandings
by F.H. Buckley
Breeding, Eating, and Killing
by Ben Stein
Going to Bat for the National Pastime
by Larry Thornberry
The Dystopian Reality of Utopian Dreams
by Melissa Mackenzie
Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Larry Alex Taunton
Amash’s Tea Party Comes to an End
by Nic Rowan
Fortune-Telling the Future of Tax Reform
by Grover Norquist
Forty Years of the Computer Revolution
by Joseph Bottum
What Should Conservatives Do About Google?
by J. Arthur Bloom
Government Should Leave Google and Facebook Alone
by Steven Greenhut
Nixon’s Resignation Reconsidered
by Geoff Shepard
Britain in the Fall (of Brexit?)
by Robert Taylor
What Would Reagan Think of Trump?
by Paul Kengor
MPGs and Mass Triggering
by Eric Peters
I Was a Teenage Scalper
by Daniel J. Flynn
Zorro in the White House
by Wlady Pleszczynski