Matthew G. Andersson

Matthew G. Andersson


  • Why President Trump is still being legally harassed

    December 17, 2024

    Why President Trump is still being legally harassed

    New York judge Juan Merchan, who just denied another motion against President-elect Trump, may be an extreme political ideologue, but like all judges, he works for a government institution.  He takes orders and follows directions. Former fede...

  • The U.S., Russia, and China, are the new power axis

    December 8, 2024

    The U.S., Russia, and China, are the new power axis

    It’s not easy to listen to Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov.    It’s not easy, because Lavrov has such poised, stable understanding of politics and international...

  • Trump is even more right about Russia

    November 27, 2024

    Trump is even more right about Russia

    In June of 2023 I wrote an American Thinker essay titled “Trump Was Right About Russia.”  The essay is also on the Trump website.  The argument made then, in a nutshell, was that America and Russia can have a natural, productive...

  • Another Yale Law professor who doesn’t understand the law

    November 23, 2024

    Another Yale Law professor who doesn’t understand the law

    Yale Law Professor Samuel Moyn has authored a New York Times essay (“Liberals Bet They Could Beat Trump With the Law, Nov. 22, 2024), which seems to demonstrate that he doesn’t understand, or care to acknowledge, the law from lawfare, or ...

  • Two legal systems, two governments, two countries?

    November 18, 2024

    Two legal systems, two governments, two countries?

    The Trump mandate is to make America great again.  That will include making her legal system great again.   But there’s a problem: The Democrat party is committed to corrupting that legal system to block and subvert the will of ...

  • What is good for Israel is good for the United States

    November 15, 2024

    What is good for Israel is good for the United States

    When Israel, along with the United States, together enforce Middle East security operations by forcibly neutralizing the threats surrounding Israel, they are also establishing a pattern of behavior necessary to then carry out the exact same security ...

  • Dow 100,000?

    November 11, 2024

    Dow 100,000?

    Numbers are the essence of the Trump victory. Voters used numbers to reason what was best for them, and their country. The new administration will have positive impacts on domestic energy supply and gas prices. Better international relations will ...

  • Is a DNC election cheat going on to control the House?

    November 8, 2024

    Is a DNC election cheat going on to control the House?

    The current White House administration is awkwardly going out of its way to broadcast the presence of “fair elections” and that the election system just proved that it’s working just fine.  But the stalled, delayed House e...

  • Let’s all thank alternative conservative media

    November 7, 2024

    Let’s all thank alternative conservative media

    In such a dramatic political election and conservative landslide, there are many parties, and factors, to acknowledge for its success.  One of those success factors is the quality of information and thinking, and the media that delivers it. But ...

  • Trump is pure Chicago economics

    October 30, 2024

    Trump is pure Chicago economics

    In his recent interview with Joe Rogan, President Trump explained why tariffs are such an effective market-based economic tool.  His thinking is pure “Chicago School” economics, by which I mean that it is based on markets and se...

  • Trump and Vance are adults

    October 26, 2024

    Trump and Vance are adults

    If you take a fast inventory of the world’s “Great Power” leaders, they all have one thing in common: adulthood. This is one of the most important “national security” aspects of former president Trump and his running ...

  • This election isn’t Trump versus Harris ...

    October 10, 2024

    This election isn’t Trump versus Harris ...

    Kamala Harris is running as the Democrat candidate against Republican Donald Trump, but in reality, Trump is facing a 100-year development of a Progressive government monolith.  Harris is merely the “Borg Queen” who acts as the vo...

  • Electronic warfare goes political

    September 21, 2024

    Electronic warfare goes political

    The recent explosions of electronic pagers forming a communications network among Hamas operatives, captured on CCTV and observed around the world, are fascinating technically and strategically.  The phenomenon is also, however, instructive...

  • Trump won the debate — and something more

    September 14, 2024

    Trump won the debate — and something more

    Despite obvious media bias in the recent presidential debate, Trump still didn’t just “win” against Harris. If you were paying attention, his closing remarks and their effect were profound: the stakes for the U.S. are not politic...

  • How did the DNC learn to use lawfare?

    August 28, 2024

    How did the DNC learn to use lawfare?

    The DNC uses “lawfare” as its most fundamental strategic tool.  Lawfare is the manipulation of the Judiciary, or the courts, in ways that abuse and distort their normal use and purpose, in order to disadvantage an opposing party...

  • The pragmatic reality of the November election

    August 22, 2024

    The pragmatic reality of the November election

    When retail politics takes center stage in mass public attention, as the political party conventions do, nearly everything but the facts tends to be laid out clearly for voters.  These conventions are surely American in how they are corpora...

  • What price Trump?

    June 29, 2024

    What price Trump?

    When England was under direct threat in the early 1940s, and Churchill was nearly alone as a voice of resolve and defiance, he was still fighting to organize a successful bid to become prime minister. It wasn't until England's survival was at...

  • Law schools suddenly respect the Constitution!

    June 21, 2024

    Law schools suddenly respect the Constitution!

    A recent story in major media reported how over 100 law school deans have recently signed a group letter that encourages law students in America to suddenly respect the law: “The group of educators who are responsible for training the nation...

  • Trump the Citizen

    June 5, 2024

    Trump the Citizen

    The world continues to be riveted by President Trump’s legal cases.  It is easy to sit back and watch it all, and think that this happens only in the gamesmanship of Washington politics.  Unfortunately, what the nation is wi...

  • When Berkeley Law doesn’t understand law

    April 17, 2024

    When Berkeley Law doesn’t understand law

    Rather than discuss the recent Berkeley Law School controversy, which concerns a student protest at a dinner party hosted by the school dean, I’d like to generalize the issue at its institutional level, and ask whether it was even appropriate t...

  • Trump’s Judges Aren’t Using Legal Reasoning

    April 6, 2024

    Trump’s Judges Aren’t Using Legal Reasoning

    Even if you don’t happen to be a lawyer, law professor or legal scholar, it isn’t hard to see a big problem with many of the published decisions made by judges who are hearing defense arguments and motions made by President Trump, in the ...

  • The real reason Boeing is in the news

    March 21, 2024

    The real reason Boeing is in the news

    In short, China wants Boeing out. China’s new knock-off passenger jet is waiting for approval as a replacement for the Boeing 737, and the Biden administration is only too willing to help the Chinese by demonizing an American manufacturer, w...

  • Why the Trump SCOTUS victory is bigger than it looks

    March 5, 2024

    Why the Trump SCOTUS victory is bigger than it looks

    It is instructive for all Americans that the U.S. Supreme Court just ruled unanimously in President Trump’s favor, concerning what should have been an obvious legal fact in constitutional law.  The Court asserted that Section 3 of the...

  • What percentage of Yale faculty donations go to the Democrat National Committee?

    February 2, 2024

    What percentage of Yale faculty donations go to the Democrat National Committee?

    The exact number is 98.4 percent.  A few things should immediately jump out at anyone otherwise assessing this fascinating statistic.  It isn’t the percentage, which is unsurprising.  It isn’t even nearly una...

  • January 21, 2024

    Trump demonstrates what law really is

    The way we all look at law is very important.  It consists of rules, of course, like those for driving a car, purchasing a home or business, and getting married.  It also has its criminal component for things ranging from misdemea...

  • December 30, 2023

    The Real Reason Trump is a Threat

    The 45th president of the United States, Donald John Trump, is a particular kind of president, out of all the previous presidents in modern history, and a specific kind of threat to established political organizations.  He is not a threat pe...

  • December 2, 2023

    Why the left hates American law

    Many conservatives, moderates, and even fair-minded liberals have been startled by the way the DNC is twisting American legal standards to pursue and remove a political rival.  Former House speaker Newt Gingrich asserted that “the lef...

  • October 21, 2023

    What Israel and the US Have in Common

    Much is often said about Israel and the United States being natural allies, but that is usually not accompanied by much detail.  There are many cultural ties, including religion, of course, and intriguing economic similarities, especially i...

  • October 1, 2023

    Judges are not business experts

    A DNC-affiliated New York judge determined, in a highly irregular summary judgment, that former president Trump's detailed financial valuation statements used to finance or refinance certain real estate and related businesses were overstated, or ...

  • September 21, 2023

    Raising interest rates is not the solution

    Economist and University of Chicago business school professor Raghuram Rajan, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India and formerly chief economist and director of research at the International Monetary Fund, recently discussed on Bloomberg News ...

  • September 13, 2023

    A law professor thinks blacks vote only for blacks

    Cardozo Law School professor Kate Shaw, who had a lengthy job with the Obama administration, argues in major media that the state of Alabama is violating the Voting Rights Act and disadvantaging black voters, and subsequently that the U.S. Supreme Co...

  • August 29, 2023

    The left is 'willfully blind' to President Trump's rights

    A senior law professor at New York University Law, Professor Burt Neuborne, who is also the founding director of NYU's Brennan Center, and perhaps ironically a former national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, penned a Gu...

  • August 19, 2023

    Stealing elections is a form of reparations

    Rioting, arson, and property theft may be viewed the same as violence to lawful voting rules: both are considered by the political left as a form of "reparations." The indictments of former U.S. president Trump can also be seen as a form...

  • August 18, 2023

    The legal flaw of United States v. Trump

    Public comments being made about the Trump indictment have all assumed that the state’s evidence passes scrutiny without due process and presumption.  Commenting on the prosecution's case is not based in law, but in opinion (one l...

  • August 8, 2023

    The problem with intellectuals

    Economist Thomas Sowell, one of America's finest thinkers, wrote an excellent book called Intellectuals and Society that I would encourage anyone to read.  Its main argument is that "elitists" who have been inflated ...

  • July 30, 2023

    Stop donating to your university

    If you ever thought of being a donor to your favorite college, or leaving an estate gift, I have one piece of advice: don't do it.  This isn't out of a cold heart, or being ungenerous, but from practical concerns over university and...

  • July 18, 2023

    Subverting the Court

    It’s important to keep in mind that the Biden administration still wants to pack the Supreme Court, but they also want to compress it, and now more than ever, after it found itself on the losing side of several rulings. By so doing, they seek t...

  • July 11, 2023

    Affirmative action and non-discrimination are not the same

    A former law intern to Biden DOJ head Merrick Garland wrote an article in the major press trying to convince readers that the Supreme Court's recent ruling on affirmative action will effectively start a new race war. The University of Chicago ...

  • July 1, 2023

    Misleading the Public on Law

    New York University (NYU) Law professor Rick Pildes is among a partisan academic group of colleagues, including Bob Bauer who worked for the Obama administration, and Richard Revesz, who is on leave to run Biden’s  Office of Information an...

  • June 21, 2023

    The Lawlessness of Yale And Other Law Schools

    Yale Law School professor Oona Hathaway wrote an especially revealing Guest Essay in the pages of the New York Times. By aiding the government’s exceptional indictment against a former U.S. president, she may have violated several laws; the Ame...

  • June 10, 2023

    Trump Was Right About Russia

    President Trump’s instincts, insight and intuition were especially accurate on eight major policy issues:    U.S. domestic energy production   Trade agreements   Border security   Manufacturing repatriation ...

  • June 1, 2023

    Why the White House Wants War

    With Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, subject to increasing Russian bombardment, and Moscow subject to new drone attacks, the hostility now reflects direct provocation of central government and leadership.  Whether you rightly find Russia’s ...

  • May 20, 2023

    Conservative student group hits COVID hard at University of Chicago

    On Friday May 19, The Chicago Thinker, a conservative student-organized political news and opinion site, hosted a symposium at the University of Chicago campus, including former Trump administration adviser and Hoover Institute member Dr. Scott Atlas...

  • May 15, 2023

    How the 'new' law school rankings serve the DNC

    The Chronicle of Higher Education, a politically partisan higher education publication and lobby platform headquartered in Washington, D.C., recently sought to report on how law school rankings may have changed due to a handful of prog...

  • April 22, 2023

    Trump was right about the US Space Force

    On April 21, the Financial Times ran a story that should be front and center in U.S. national security policy circles ("China building cyber weapons to hijack enemy satellites").  It asserts that a "Classified CIA document as...

  • April 15, 2023

    What’s really wrong with America’s law schools

    In a recent WSJ essay, conservative-minded legal academic Ilya Shapiro made an important and cautionary assertion concerning the way our nation’s law schools are increasingly subject to a formal, institutional, largely government-based influenc...

  • March 7, 2023

    Welcome to the Uncle Sam School of Law

    Harvard University recently co-hosted a Department of Education event with over 100 of the nation's law school administrators in attendance, to discuss how law schools must be more open and equal, not only in admissions criteria, but in the natur...

  • February 20, 2023

    Business professors are wrong about the future of work

    In a recent Wall Street Journal article ("What CEOs Are Getting Wrong about the Future of Work — and How to Make It Right"), University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business professor Adam Grant advances what he th...

  • February 12, 2023

    The 'let's try it again' leftist balloon PR blitz

    Suddenly, U.S. president Joe Biden and Canada's prime minister, Justin Trudeau, are decisively shooting down new "UFOs" that purportedly wandered into their national airspace.  They are doing so with personal verve and command...

  • February 8, 2023

    Disturbing possibilities to explain the Chinese balloon

    The media report of a Chinese-sponsored high-altitude balloon, the follow-up reports of its flight path over U.S. geography, and the "shoot-down" event that followed are all subject to factual testing, but on its face, the story represents ...

  • January 13, 2023

    Is the federal government sabotaging US air travel?

    As a former commercial pilot and aviation CEO, I'm not inherently drawn to political explanations for industrial disruptions.  However the nature of the nation's airline meltdown that continues from the recent holiday period may cau...

  • January 7, 2023

    Will universities ever admit they were wrong about COVID policy?

    Former White House adviser Dr. Scott Atlas, the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health policy at Stanford University's Hoover Institute, wrote an excellent essay recently in the Wall Street Journal.  In it, he raises a vital questio...

  • November 11, 2022

    You Can’t Have a Red Wave with a Blue Dam

    Since 1979 I’ve been a registered Republican.  I was optimistic like so many other conservatives that a “Red Wave” would reflect a learning behavior from the larger public in the current voting cycle, a change in perception giv...

  • November 8, 2022

    Institutionalizing political hate

    In the 1970s, I attended a private preparatory academy.  Even then, the culture of the school was far more conservative, but also equally if not more diverse than it is today — we had students from nearly every race, religion, and ori...

  • October 1, 2022

    UChicago Preaches Nihilism to Students

    When a new cohort of young freshman undergraduates finally arrives on any one of our nation’s university or college campuses, they were once treated to an all-student orientation and public address that set a tone of optimism, scholarship, and ...

  • July 18, 2022

    Ideological Training Starts Well Before College Even Begins

    Our nation’s media is saturated with opinion concerning the ideological influences on our college and university campuses.  This issue, however, is equally present, and perhaps even more intellectually destabilizing, in our secondary educa...

  • May 14, 2022

    Law School is a Tort

    The nation’s roughly 200 American Bar Association law schools create a dense smog of conceptual, ideological, and rhetorical pollution that spreads across the country like smokestack exhaust drifting far from its source, but there is a lar...

  • December 28, 2021

    Can the New York Times Beat Project Veritas in Court?

    An old saying in law is that you should never be your own client.  The Editorial Board of the New York Times shows why, recently declaring in its pages ("A Dangerous Court Order against the New York Times," Editorial Board, 24 Dec...

  • October 5, 2021

    Debunking the 1619 Project

    Debunking the 1619 Project by Mary Grabar Regnery History (2021) Mary Grabar has authored a serious, mature book that should be in every American household and classroom.  Its message is so critical to understand that it might usefully ...