American Thinker

Something strange is happening in Washington, and many Americans can feel it -- even if they don’t yet know how to describe it. Executive agencies are being reorganized, officials are removed or sidelined for disloyalty, and…

The European veil of leftist intellectual and moral superiority is starting to crumble. In recent weeks, we’ve seen Europe begin to take responsibility for its defense, the climate crazies seeing many of their goals collapsing under the…

I was raised to respect the Austrian School of economics. From the hardliners at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and Reason to the more moderate libertarians like Milton Friedman and President Reagan, the conservatives of my…

Cheap political attacks have been part of American life since before the ink dried on the Constitution. Even George Washington took fire from scornful scribes accusing him—the man who freed us from the shackles of the British crown—of…

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny – Thomas JeffersonWith all due respect to Jefferson, sometimes that perversion…

I count myself as one of the lucky ones to have grown up without the distraction of cell phones, social media, and the lure of the internet. That is why I am glad to see the growing movement to ban cell phones from schools. This…

I know. You’re tired of pundits opining on the unconstitutionality of various courts declaring that Trump can’t fire people or that he must send USAID money, keep sex deniers in the military, and so on. In those cases, the judges often get…

Political elites in Europe and the United States regard rising populism as an existential threat to their power and wealth. We have witnessed in recent years the establishment’s efforts to defeat its opponents by prosecuting them…

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once reprimanded President George H.W. Bush with: "This is no time to go wobbly."A variation of those words, for MAGA now, seem appropriate. Thatcher's words occurred in 1990 when Bush considered how…

Well, we now know that President Trump’s Liberation Day on April 2, when he announced a new regime of tariffs, was really World Bunker Buster Day.I’m still a little flummoxed that the wise stock market traders decided that stocks were…