At this point, I am not going to announce support for Donald Trump, though I am not #NeverTrump and am emphatically #NeverHillary. To restate my position without social media lingo, I would never vote for Hillary Clinton and, though I | Read More »

What lies behind Donald Trump’s nomination victory? Received wisdom among conservatives is that he, the outsider, sensed, marshaled and came to represent a massive revolt of the Republican rank and file against the “establishment.”

The sudden appearance of Donald Trump on the political horizon last year may have been surprising, but not nearly as surprising as seeing some conservatives supporting him.

This short essay is in response to a friend who asked me to explain how Donald Trump is unacceptable to “movement conservatives.”

Justice Antonin Scalia played a significant role in the development of telecommunications in the 1970s that gave him a firm grasp of markets and business issues as he served on the Supreme Court.

When Huck Finn asked Tom Sawyer what a Moslem is, Tom said a Moslem is someone who is not a Presbyterian, which is true, but not the whole truth. Donald Trump says he is a Presbyterian (“I drink my little wine . . . and have my little cracker”), which apparently was not good enough for enough of Iowa’s evangelical Christians.

It’s hard to believe that the United States, having resisted the siren song of socialism during its entire 20th-century heyday (the only major democracy to do so), should suddenly succumb to its charms a generation after its intellectual demise.

Are you fed up with politically-correct bestseller lists? At last, here is a bestseller list just for you! Our weekly Conservative Bestseller List tells you what’s hot, what’s rising, and what’s got staying power in the world of conservative books. | Read More »

There is a permanent structure in Washington that resists the reform efforts of even the best conservative leaders.

“If the boys aren’t up to the challenge, conservative women are happy to lead the charge.”

HUMAN EVENTS turns 70, with cheerful disobedience and a decent respect for the opinions of mankind.

Conservatism’s task is to urge courts to throw as many flags as there are infractions.

Conservatives may have been wasting much time and effort.

Who else has been harmed by progressivism as much as blacks?

“The night is gone. The day is at hand.”

On Tuesday evening, American Conservative Union chair Al Cardenas discussed the reasons New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was not invited to address CPAC 2013 with National Journal: Cardenas, whose group organizes the conference, wrote in an e-mail to National Journal that while CPAC | Read More »

Author Amity Shlaes has finally brought one of the greatest and most underrated presidents of the 20th century to a popular audience. Vermont native Calvin Coolidge, once regarded by liberal historians as a “do nothing” president, has been recast in | Read More »

On Wednesday, Breitbart News will launch a new forum called The Conversation, officially announced as follows: The Conversation will be a place where our readers can watch an ongoing dialogue amongst a select group of thought leaders that includes Ace | Read More »

Glenn Reynolds makes an interesting suggestion to Republican donors in the New York Post today: instead of pouring cash into ineffective old-school political advertising during campaign season, they should use their millions to “buy some women’s magazines… or at least | Read More »

Jim Geraghty at National Review begs our pardon for not being “relentlessly upbeat about Thursday’s big news,” meaning the resignation of Senator Jim DeMint to become president of the Heritage Foundation: Two years into a six year term, DeMint decided | Read More »