American Thinker

Anthony Everitt says, in his biography of Cicero, that ancient Rome didn’t have any official police. What they did have was families. A particularly wealthy family with connections, usually led by a patriarch, would…

Harris and Walz have made a thing of “turning the page,” but the page that must be turned is the one they are on.In recent years, beginning with Obama, the Democratic party has become unmoored from its basic center-left policies and…

Christians who believe they should not be involved in politics—not even to participate by voting—need to read and reflect on the story of Esther from the Bible.Esther rose from being a lowly nobody in the court of King Ahasuerus (Xerxes) to…

It is time to face the harsh reality of why the extreme left has been able to seize power in the United States: the logical and inescapable corollary to the left’s victory is the right’s defeat. The conservative professional…

We are a rich country — rich enough that women like Cathy, the very young pregnant woman I saw last week working at Burger King, shouldn’t have to choose between keeping her child and holding on to essentials. With a booming…

A little while ago, a friend of mine confronted me with a question: “How can people claim their Christianity: loving their neighbor, being of service to others, and at the same time support Donald Trump?” I was somewhat apprehensive…

Many of the most significant and acrimonious disputes in modern society arise from conflicting cultural visions.These conflicts appear to be much more stark, if not vicious, in the past half century, and the reason may lie in a subtle but…

Since COVID the debate over school choice has become even more pronounced. Schools were shuttered and students learned through several alternative methods. Some accessed on-line tutorial programs or streamed video lessons from their…

To understand what’s unfolding in this election year, we need to view Trump not only as a candidate, and not merely as a man, but as a symbol — as if he were the personification of Uncle Sam, brought to life in an attempt to save America…

The State of Florida and the Florida Department of State (FDOS) filed a lawsuit on October 16 against the Department of Homeland Security about non-citizens and the state’s voter rolls. FDOS alleges that the U.S. Citizenship and…