American Federalist Journal
Tuesday - April 20, 2021



Featured articles by Kevin D. Williamson



Socialism Loses, Again
2021-04-18

Biden's Decidedly Unwoke War on Drugs
2021-04-15

The Lessons of the Afghan War
2021-04-14

Why Amazon Workers Rejected Unionization
2021-04-11

Baby Steps toward a Workable Middle Ground on Guns
2021-04-08



Why Not Fewer Voters?
2021-04-07

The Tax-Subsidy Waltz
2021-04-04

All One Thing or All the Other
2021-04-02

Biden's 'Infrastructure' Scam
2021-04-01

When the Party's Over
2021-03-28



Don't Waste Our Time
2021-03-25

The Return of Mass Shootings - and Logical Fallacies
2021-03-24

We Need a Department of Education
2021-03-21

Missing the Forest for the Trees
2021-03-18

Hillbilly Agonistes
2021-03-16



Free Speech in a Bind
2021-03-14

Do You Really Need a Tomato?
2021-03-12

China Is Making a World
2021-03-11

The Civil War of Wishful Thinking
2021-03-07

Beware the Dark Side of the Boom
2021-03-05



Last Exit to Mulberry Street
2021-03-03

Welcome to the Bloody '20s
2021-02-28

Biden's Cynical 'Foreign Policy for the Middle Class'
2021-02-26

Ask an Engineer
2021-02-21

The Cruz Cancun Conundrum
2021-02-19



Understanding the Texas Blackouts
2021-02-17

The Ministry of Loneliness
2021-02-14

Ezra Klein Misapprehends California's Problems
2021-02-11

'Move On,' Says Rubio
2021-02-09

Joe Manchin Can't Beat Republicans . . . So He Should Join Them
2021-02-07



Take a Stand for the Iron Lady
2021-02-04

The Trouble with Open Borders
2021-02-03

Follow the Money
2021-01-31

The American Left's Love Affair with FARC & Friends
2021-01-29

Biden's Climate-Change Folly
2021-01-28



Against Ad-Hocracy
2021-01-27

Joe Biden's First Mistake
2021-01-24

Fran Lebowitz, American Conservative
2021-01-22

The Right's Playboy Problem
2021-01-22

Witless Ape Rides Helicopter
2021-01-20



The Disciplinary Corporation, Redux
2021-01-17

Circling the Drain
2021-01-15

Impeach, Convict, Remove
2021-01-12

The Task Ahead for Conservatives in the Biden Age
2021-01-10

President Al Sharpton
2021-01-08



The Trump Presidency's Inevitable, Wretched End
2021-01-07

'Hilaria' Baldwin and the Allure of the Invented Persona
2021-01-03

Annus Horribilis
2021-01-01

The Price of COVID Relief
2020-12-30

After Strange Gods
2020-12-26



His Father's Business
2020-12-25

There's Nothing Unfair about Investigating the Bidens' Shady Dealings
2020-12-20

Procedure Is Getting Us Through - For Now
2020-12-16

Tribal Authority
2020-12-16

The College-Debt Debate Is a Culture-War Battle
2020-12-13



'No' to General Austin
2020-12-08

There Will Be No 'Return to Normalcy'
2020-12-06

Genuine Generosity
2020-12-04

Watching Les Watchmen
2020-12-03

The Taliban Crime Syndicate Waits Out Trump
2020-11-29



Shopping Superstitions
2020-11-27

On Being Grateful
2020-11-26

Raise the Entrance Fees for Our National Parks
2020-11-25

The Trouble(s) with 'Sovereignty'
2020-11-22

Big White Ghetto
2020-11-17



'America First' Nationalism Isn't Leaving the White House
2020-11-15

President Sunshine
2020-11-13

What to Say in Georgia
2020-11-10

Who Won?
2020-11-08

The Revolution Isn't Coming
2020-11-06



Good News for Conservatives from . . . California?
2020-11-04

America the Incompetent
2020-11-01

Charlie Hebdo, the Patsy
2020-10-29

Where We Go from Here
2020-10-28

The Decline and Fall of the 9/11 Republicans
2020-10-25



Biden Can't Tax the Rich
2020-10-22

Jeffrey Toobin and Our Public-Hate Ritual
2020-10-20

Tear Down This Wall
2020-10-18

The Disinterested Court We Seek
2020-10-15

The Goat Rodeo
2020-10-14



The Question Biden Won't Answer
2020-10-11

Far-Fetched Dreams of a Trump Landslide
2020-10-09

Trump's Trade-Deficit Failure
2020-10-07

'Chastening in the Hour of Pride'
2020-10-04

Debating Obamacare, Again, and Again
2020-10-01



Revolution by Shenanigan
2020-09-28

BLM Becomes the PLO
2020-09-27

The Arson Party
2020-09-25

Snobs or Mobs?
2020-09-20

Helvexit?
2020-09-17



The World Sours on Washington
2020-09-16

The Police Aren't Immune from Politics
2020-09-13

To Out-Nixon Nixon
2020-09-10

Accept the Results
2020-09-09

Reality Bites
2020-09-06



The Lives of the Martyrs
2020-09-04

On Nancy Pelosi's Haircut
2020-09-03

A Clutch of Fools
2020-09-02

Apocalypse Now?
2020-08-31

A Small Second Amendment Victory
2020-08-16



Republicans and Race, Redux
2020-08-13

The Decline and Fall of the National Rifle Association
2020-08-09

What Next?
2020-08-06

The World's Worst Idea
2020-08-05

It's Time for Action on COVID Liability
2020-08-02



The Issue Is Trump
2020-07-29

The Habsburg Moment
2020-07-26

The American Medical Community's Credibility Problem
2020-07-23

America's Psychic Tuberculosis
2020-07-20

Unquiet on the Western Front
2020-07-19



The Mystery of Minor-League Corruption
2020-07-16

Even Saints Can Get Canceled
2020-07-15

Kings of the Castle
2020-07-12

Biden: Make America Great Again
2020-07-10

Courtesy and Capitalization
2020-07-09



Chesterton's Cops
2020-07-08

We Will Miss the Filibuster
2020-07-05

Three Kinds of Power
2020-07-02

The End of (Whig) History
2020-07-01

What Are Schools For?
2020-07-01



Blowin' in the Wind
2020-06-28

The American Infection
2020-06-26

We Don't Know What's Good for Us
2020-06-23

Vive la Liberté
2020-06-21

Conservatives, Show Up
2020-06-19



The Revolution Comforts the Comfortable
2020-06-18

The Emperor's New Law
2020-06-16

The Confederate-Monument Controversy Is a Democrat-vs-Democrat Question
2020-06-14

A Police-Reform Agenda as Old as Policing Itself
2020-06-10

Comforting Abstractions
2020-06-07



After November
2020-06-05

Welcome Home, Hong Kong
2020-06-04

The Answer Isn't a Free Lunch
2020-06-03

Tired of 'Winning' Yet?
2020-05-31

Apple Is Right to Refuse to Help the FBI Hack into iPhones
2020-01-19



John Roberts, Eternal Hostage
2020-01-16

What Was It For?
2020-01-12

How to Improve Film and TV Criticism
2020-01-10

Tesla's Success Is the Product of a Healthy Entrepreneurial Culture
2020-01-09

The American Middle Class as Victim
2020-01-08



Repeal the AUMF
2020-01-05

See You Later, Alligator?
2020-01-03

Hoax Politics
2020-01-02

This Will Be Our Year
2019-12-31

Do Celebrities Really Buy the Climate-Change Story?
2019-12-29



Trump Isn't a Nazi. He's a Failure.
2019-12-27

'A People Prepared'
2019-12-24

Our Stupid Decade
2019-12-24

Stuck in a College Basement for Our Cause
2019-12-23

How to Deal with the Counterfeit Goods Problem
2019-12-22



The Welcome Boringness of Pete Buttigieg
2019-12-18

Write Them Checks
2019-12-17

You Didn't Build That
2019-12-12

The FBI's Corrupt Cops
2019-12-11

Lessons from Europe, or 'Europe'
2019-12-08



We Are Not Winning the Trade War
2019-12-04

History Is Short
2019-12-01

This Pilgrim Republic
2019-11-28

Pruning the Presidency
2019-11-27

Who's in Charge Here?
2019-11-24



The Hyper-Partisan Stupidity Arms Race
2019-11-19

The Immoral Attack on Capitalism
2019-11-19

Marco Rubio's Half-Baked Political Philosophy
2019-11-17

Impeachment and the Broken Truce
2019-11-14

The Upsides of Bloomberg for the Left and the Right
2019-11-12



Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in Greenwich, Conn.?
2019-11-10

Elizabeth Warren Thinks Voters Are Stupid
2019-11-06

Making Moral Mistakes Mandatory
2019-11-03

The Difficulty of Brexit Is the Case for Brexit
2019-10-29

Not Enemies, But Friends
2019-10-27



The GOP Won't Win Over African-American Voters If It Doesn't Even Try
2019-10-25

Bring Impeachment into the Light
2019-10-24

Elizabeth Warren's Financial Berlin Wall
2019-10-22

Small Policy Tweaks Won't Fix Facebook
2019-10-20

O'Rourke's America
2019-10-16



Don't Run a Government Like a Business
2019-10-15

Elizabeth Warren Is Jussie Smollett
2019-10-13

A Day of Prayer and Fasting
2019-10-10

Make Satan Great Again
2019-10-09

Everybody Is Tipper Gore Now
2019-10-06



The Two Government Paternalisms
2019-10-04

For Democrats, Taxes Aren't about Revenue
2019-10-01

The Radicalism Arms Race
2019-09-29

Prince Don
2019-09-27

What's Behind the Democrats' Impeachment Gambit?
2019-09-26



China's Population Problem
2019-09-25

More Fracking, or More War?
2019-09-22

The Iran Dilemma, the Saudi Dilemma, and the Iran-Saudi Dilemma
2019-09-20

American Universities Are the Envy of the World
2019-09-19

Back Off from the 'Resist' Nonsense
2019-09-15



The Divine Right of the Democratic Party
2019-09-11

Playing God
2019-09-08

Harm-Reduction Beats Drug War as a Response to Addiction
2019-09-06

Conservatives Should Watch More Television
2019-09-04

How to Spot a Serious Gun-Crime Proposal
2019-09-03



We Need to Talk about Joe Biden
2019-09-01

L'Esprit de l'Escalier, the 'Times,' Etc.
2019-08-27

A Different Kind of 'Right-Wing'
2019-08-25

Is Patriotism Possible?
2019-08-21

The Age of Miscalculation
2019-08-19



America's <em>Other</em> 'Special Relationship' Remains Worth Preserving
2019-08-18

Finding Yourself in an Expanding Universe, Reading Literature
2019-08-16

Joe Biden, Designated White Guy
2019-08-13

Job Security Is Not Coming Back
2019-08-11

On Gun Control, Once More from the Top
2019-08-09



The Reflex toward Illiberal Democracy
2019-08-07

The Infernal Art of the Deal
2019-08-06

The Democrats Break Left
2019-08-04

What Noah Smith Gets Wrong about Poverty
2019-07-31

Which Party Can We Blame for Poverty and Crime?
2019-07-30



Among the Chimps
2019-07-28

Welcome to the Machine
2019-07-27