July 28, 2024

A cultural act of terrorism at the Olympic Games

From Gibbon to Lincoln, Oswald Spengler to James Burnham, it has been repeatedly noted that Western civilization in its various iterations of decline and fall has, like the structure of an infested house, been hollowed out internally before succumbin...

July 2, 2023

A Black Pastor Speaks Truth to Power in Berkeley

Question: What’s the closest thing to Hell freezing over? Answer: a black pastor praising western civilization for “bringing Africa out of the darkness” in front of a Catholic congregation in Berkeley, California. Even more amazing,...

March 27, 2023

Letter to a leftist friend

Like many of us, I have an otherwise intelligent friend, who is an incurable leftist.  In this essay, I try to win him over by reason and also suggestion, showing that a number of liberal influencers — Matt Taibbi, Alan Dershowitz, Da...

February 22, 2023

Tàr-ed and Feathered

The announcement of the Academy Award nominees is usually a day of mourning for conservatives, mindful as we are of the dictum that "politics is downstream from culture" and American culture has taken a decidedly leftist, ever more frighten...

March 6, 2022

Putin is playing the long game against the USA

"Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples and ages, it is the rule."  —Friedrich Nietzsche "Great Civilizations are never conquered.  They commit suicide." ...

August 17, 2016

How the Progressive Left Hollowed Out Our Olympic Team

Readers of American Thinker are well aware of the changes Vladimir Putin has instituted in the Russian Federation as he seeks to pull his country out from the spiritual, cultural and economic devastation of 70 plus years of communism. The short li...

August 15, 2016

The Olympic competition everyone notices but few discuss

As the Olympics build to their climax and rivet the attention of Americans, as a red-blooded male, I can't help but notice that our team is being significantly outclassed by their Russians counterparts in one obvious but unmentionable category: f...