American Federalist Journal
Saturday - August 19, 2017



Featured articles by Kevin D. Williamson



Let It Be
2017-08-17

Angry White Boys
2017-08-16

What Persecution We Raise
2017-08-13

What about It, Mitch?
2017-08-11

See a Little Light
2017-08-09



No 'Comprehensive' Immigration Reform
2017-08-06

Death of a F***ing Salesman
2017-07-30

Rediscovering Austrianism
2017-07-28

Hang on, Sessions
2017-07-27

A National State of Non-Emergency
2017-07-26



'Made in America.' So What?
2017-07-23

Apartment Fires and Health Insurance
2017-07-18

Trump's Nuclear Non-Policy
2017-07-07

A People without a King
2017-07-04

The Great American Rip-Off
2017-07-03



The Great American Rip-Off
2017-07-02

Junkie Running Dry
2017-07-01

Two Princes
2017-06-29

Magical Thinking about Minimum Wages
2017-06-28

Civil Asset Forfeiture: Where Due Process Goes to Die
2017-06-25



Civil Asset Forfeiture: Where Due Process Goes to Die
2017-06-24

So, You Want a Swiss Health-Care System?
2017-06-23

About That Russian 'Interference'
2017-06-22

In Praise of Gerrymandering
2017-06-21

Planned Parenthood's Century of Brutality
2017-06-19



For New York City's Municipal Workers, a Supplementary Welfare State
2017-06-18

From Americans to Americans
2017-06-16

The Left Embraces Political Violence
2017-06-15

Trump's Credibility Problem
2017-06-12

A Satisfying 'Star Wars' Sequel
2017-06-11



How to Think about Low-Income Housing
2017-06-10

Yes to Privatizing Air-Traffic Control
2017-06-07

United Fiscal Front
2017-06-04

Why We Ask for Your Support
2017-06-01

American Retail's Fast, Furious Decline
2017-05-31



Schmucks Like Us
2017-05-30

Terrorism Is Not Random
2017-05-28

Trump's Immigration Pre-Crime
2017-05-26

Don't Count On the Growth Fairy
2017-05-25

The Return of the Naïve Supply-Sider
2017-05-24



Callista Crosses the Tiber
2017-05-23

Six Days in May
2017-05-21

Sobering Success
2017-05-19

Personnel and Policy
2017-05-14

No, It Is Not 'Treason'
2017-05-12



Children Before Politics
2017-05-11

Camino de Servidumbre
2017-05-10

The 'Right' To Health Care
2017-05-07

The Inquisitor's Heirs
2017-05-06

Health Care, from the Top
2017-05-05



I Am Cancer
2017-05-03

The Rules About the Rules
2017-05-02

A Show about Nothing
2017-05-01

A Show about Nothing
2017-04-30

Hocus POTUS
2017-04-28



End the Corporate Tax
2017-04-27

Little Creep
2017-04-23

A Case of 21,587 Crimes
2017-04-20

Ya Got Took
2017-04-18

Calexit Craziness
2017-04-17



'He Is Not Here'
2017-04-16

Peter Navarro: Trump's Nutty Economics Professor
2017-04-14

United Is Why People Hate Capitalism
2017-04-12

War, Willy-Nilly
2017-04-09

Play with Fire, Get Nuked
2017-04-07



'Politicized'
2017-04-04

Bad Medicine on 'Carried Interest'
2017-03-30

Like Ike
2017-03-28

On the Outside, Looking Out
2017-03-26

Defund the National Endowment for the Arts - for Art's Sake
2017-03-23



The Social Machine
2017-03-21

Hollywood Is Addicted to Politics
2017-03-20

The Anglo-Americans
2017-03-19

Conservatism for Losers
2017-03-16

Why Corporate Leaders Became Progressive Activists
2017-03-13



Word Games
2017-03-12

A Misunderstood 'Diversity'
2017-03-09

The Problem with Investigating Trump
2017-03-07

Fake Hate Crimes
2017-03-05

The Dystopia We Get May Not Be the One We Dreamed Of
2017-03-03



Wishful Thinking, Again
2017-03-02

Back to Reality
2017-03-01

Bums
2017-02-26

Planet Nebraska
2017-02-22

The Press vs. the President
2017-02-19



Abolish Presidents' Day
2017-02-17

Charity without Charities
2017-02-16

The Boy on the Milk Carton
2017-02-15

No Republicans Need Apply
2017-02-12

The Queen Is Dead
2017-02-10



Make Bureaucracy Great Again
2017-02-09

Sweet Land of Liberty
2017-02-05

What Is the Democratic Party?
2017-02-02

Chuck Schumer's Tears Shouldn't Be Taken Too Seriously
2017-01-31

Elections Have Tax Consequences
2017-01-29



How to 'Resist' Trump
2017-01-26

Our Unimaginative Politicians, and the Need to Stop Rewarding Them
2017-01-22

Warning: Adult Content
2017-01-20

The Worst Perversion
2017-01-17

Obama Must Have His Applause - Please (Don't) Clap
2017-01-15



Obama's Last Lament
2017-01-12

When Do Deficits Matter?
2017-01-10

Clinton 2017
2017-01-08

Agents and Agencies
2017-01-06

The Search for the Real America
2017-01-05



The Health-Care Double Bind
2017-01-04

Obama's Last Report Card
2017-01-01

Thomas Becket and Religious Freedom in the Twelfth Century - and in the 21st
2016-12-30

The Last Days of Barack Obama
2016-12-29

It Was the Best of Times
2016-12-28



Whole Foods' 'Cultural Appropriation' of the Chopped-Cheese Sandwich
2016-12-27

Trump's Superman Style of Politics
2016-12-26

For We Have Seen His Star
2016-12-25

Manners, Even in the Age of Trump
2016-12-23

On Oil, No Backsies!
2016-12-22



Criminal Intent
2016-12-20

Masters and Servants
2016-12-18

Dylann Roof, Public Enemy
2016-12-16

The Matter with Coal Country
2016-12-15

Mandatory Nonsense
2016-12-11



Trump the Progressive
2016-12-08

We Do Not Have a Trade Deficit
2016-12-07

Which Fake News?
2016-12-06

A Problem Like Keith Ellison
2016-12-04

The Economic Stupidity of the Carrier Bailout
2016-12-02



Two Cheers for the Status Quo
2016-12-01

The Golden Age of Mass Delusion
2016-11-30

Outlaw Librarians
2016-11-29

An End of Identity Liberalism?
2016-11-27

Progressives without Power
2016-11-26



All the Best
2016-11-24

Lock Her Up
2016-11-23

Learning from Nancy Pelosi
2016-11-22

Trump Snubs D.C. as Millions Cheer
2016-11-21

'I Won'
2016-11-13



RIP Clinton, Inc.
2016-11-11

Managing President Trump
2016-11-10

What Now, Mr. President?
2016-11-09

A Republic, Not a Dairy
2016-11-08

Splendid Washington
2016-11-07



This Is Not the End
2016-11-04

The Politics of Private Life
2016-11-03

The Cheesemonger
2016-11-02

Will Hillary's Political Luck Hold?
2016-10-30

Hillary and the Book-Burners
2016-10-21



Some Advice for President Clinton
2016-10-20

'Rigging' and Other Knotty Problems
2016-10-19

Gambling's No Economic Panacea
2016-10-11

After the Storm: In Florida and Beyond, a Lesson in Cooperative Capitalism
2016-10-09

Clarence Thomas: Disappeared by the Smithsonian
2016-10-07



Kaine's Abortion Dodge
2016-10-06

Nationalists for a Smaller America
2016-10-05

The Roiled 'We'
2016-10-02

Looking into Palantir
2016-09-29

Where Does the Money Go?
2016-09-28



Cretin Hop
2016-09-25

In 2016, What Would Bill Buckley Do?
2016-09-24

The Secret Law for Wall Street
2016-09-19

William Weld's Wishful Thinking
2016-09-15

Sneaky Inflation
2016-09-14



The 'Strength' of Vladimir Putin
2016-09-13

The Facts about Medicaid Fraud
2016-09-11

Trump: A Credo of Losers
2016-09-09

Of Course Hillary's Health Is Relevant
2016-09-08

The Specter of the $20 Avocado
2016-09-07



Fixing Immigration, Trump or No Trump
2016-09-04

Mother Teresa: A Sign of the Church
2016-09-02

Brazil Has Had Enough
2016-09-01

iLeave
2016-08-31

Keep Swinging, Mr. President
2016-08-28



Proverbial Sins
2016-08-27

The Politics of Anaphylaxis
2016-08-25

Shocked by Segregation
2016-08-24

'Honest Conversations' about Race
2016-08-19

'Move On'
2016-08-16



Trump Is Losing, and Losing It
2016-08-14

Bitter Laughter
2016-08-11

Hey, Watch This
2016-08-07

Obama Is Right about Trump
2016-08-04

What Do They Do?
2016-08-02



A Woman, Sure, but This Woman?
2016-07-31

Nobles without Nobility
2016-07-28

The Black Hole
2016-07-27

Florida Woman Causes Disaster
2016-07-26

Gold-Plated Chávism
2016-07-24



Followers, Yes. Leaders?
2016-07-21

I Told You So
2016-07-17

The Democrats' Self-Serving Distractions
2016-07-11

The Democrats' Self-Serving Distractions
2016-07-10

This Bananas Republic
2016-07-08



The Bright Side of 2016
2016-07-06

What Doesn't Work against Terrorism
2016-07-05

General Washington's Standard
2016-07-03

The Road to Rationalia
2016-06-30

A Better National To-Do List
2016-06-29



The Imaginarium of Harry Blackmun
2016-06-28

Hayek in the Hill Country
2016-06-26

An Unspoken Rule
2016-06-25

Buc-eenomics
2016-06-22

When the Anti-Gun Side Dons a Marine Uniform
2016-06-20



The Real Gun-Control Story
2016-06-17

No, We Are Not 'Doing Everything We Can'
2016-06-13

The Matter with Kansas
2016-06-12

Criminals Are Unicorns
2016-05-19

Everybody Has a Sex Gap
2016-05-18



Voodoo, Economics
2016-05-17

In Dallas, Scenes from a GOP Funeral
2016-05-15

Let's Don't Put On a Show
2016-05-13

A Nation of Vice Principals
2016-05-10

The Cult of the Businessman
2016-05-08



This Election Is Not an A/B Test
2016-05-07

Obama's Lame Duck Economy
2016-05-01

Why the Left Hates Jews
2016-04-29

At Home, in the World
2016-04-28

The Facts about Venezuela
2016-04-27



The Criminal Constituency
2016-04-26

In Asia, a Dance for Five Partners
2016-04-25

Our Savonarolas
2016-04-21

The Left Is Coming for You Next
2016-04-17

The Thing about Garbutt
2016-04-15



The Max Tax
2016-04-10

The Penal Colony
2016-04-07

From Classroom to Courtroom
2016-04-03

Trump and the 'Concept' of the Country
2016-03-31

The Stupid Psychopath Problem
2016-03-28



Consequences Are for Schmucks
2016-03-27

From Brussels to the Hague
2016-03-26

The Republican Parties
2016-03-24

Loving Our Stuff, but Hating the People Who Sell It to Us
2016-03-20

What John Adams Knew
2016-03-18



Merrick Garland's 'Moderation'
2016-03-17

A Saint and a Cynic
2016-03-16

Mrs. Reagan's Era
2016-03-13

The New WASPs
2016-03-10

Bronze Medalists in the Poverty Olympics
2016-03-08



Capital Matters
2016-03-06

DJT the SOB
2016-03-04

A Multiple-Choice Question - and All the Answers Are Political Suicide
2016-03-03

Trump vs. the First Amendment
2016-02-28

The Long Run Is Here
2016-02-26



Rick Perry Is Not Guilty, but Texas Is
2016-02-25

Why Not Shoot Them?
2016-02-24

From Oxy to Overdose: America's New Drug Epidemic
2016-02-18

These Are Not the Good Guys
2016-02-11

How to Fix Illegal Immigration in Five Steps without Building a Wall
2016-02-09



Slow-Motion Euthanasia
2016-02-07

Honey, We Built the Party
2016-02-03

The Trump Slump
2016-02-02

Tenured Thugs and Thieves
2016-01-31

On the Difficulties of the Movie Star
2016-01-29



A Question of Intelligence
2016-01-27

Our Post-Literate Politics
2016-01-24

Slouching toward Tax Reform
2016-01-19

'New York Values'
2016-01-17

Political Poison
2016-01-15



People Aren't Widgets
2016-01-08

Mrs. Clinton Is Professor Click
2016-01-07

Obama Needs a Gingrich
2016-01-06

Visa Vulnerability
2016-01-03

Sinners in the Hands of an Indifferent God
2016-01-02



'This Thing Which Is Come to Pass'
2015-12-24

Habitual Liar Lies Habitually
2015-12-23

'It's Because I'm Black, Isn't It?'
2015-12-22

The Democrats' Theme for 2016 Is Totalitarianism
2015-12-20

The Long Road to Self-Driving Cars
2015-12-18



The High Cost of Stupidity
2015-12-16

President Trump (or Cruz) Will Have a Pen and a Phone, Too
2015-12-13

Fund Free-Thinking at National Review
2015-12-10

On Guns, Californians Practice 'Irish Democracy' and Ignore Bone-Headed Laws
2015-12-09

When Racial Categories Attack
2015-12-08



Let Washington Lead the Way on Gun Rights
2015-12-06

A Free Trader's Argument against TPP
2015-12-03

Chicago and Rahm Emanuel: Partners in Corruption
2015-12-02

Those Zany Colonists and the Nation They Built
2015-11-26

Conspiracy-a-Rama
2015-11-25



Our Imperfect Eponyms
2015-11-24

Rotten Elites Give a Bad Name to Elitism
2015-11-22

The Pink Guards on Campus
2015-11-19

Anonymous at War
2015-11-18

Some GOP Meltdown
2015-11-17



'Not Welcome'
2015-11-15

Let Us Recall Hillary Clinton's Conversations with the Long-Dead Eleanor Roosevelt
2015-11-12

Democrats Asked for Obamacare but Now Try to Duck Out of Paying for It
2015-11-08

Obamacare Is Dead
2015-11-04

The Public Sector: Standing in Our Way until We Pay Up
2015-11-01



Rubio and Cruz atop the GOP
2015-10-30

What Kind of Presidency Do We Want?
2015-10-29

An Awful Enthusiasm
2015-10-28

Adults Still Aren't Children, Doctor
2015-10-27

Take a Bow, Species
2015-10-25



Using Biden to Block the Clintons from Regaining the White House
2015-10-19

Employer Paternalism: Making It Easy for the Risk-Averse to Say 'Yes' to a Job
2015-10-18

Bankruptcy Is Our Only Hope
2015-10-16

Fight for the Yazidi?
2015-10-15

There Is No God but Hephaestus
2015-10-14



America Should Be Prosecuting Straw Purchasers, Not Gun Dealers
2015-10-13

OK, Let's Fight
2015-10-11

What's Next for the Trans-Pacific Partnership
2015-10-07

If Your Town Is Failing, Just Go
2015-10-06

Don't Play the Shooters' Game
2015-10-05



Don't Play the Shooters' Game
2015-10-04

Checkmate: The Economic Chess Masters Play a Losing Game
2015-10-03

Codename: Liberal
2015-10-01

Squeaker of the House
2015-09-27

Realism on Emissions: Everybody Expects Everybody Else to Cheat
2015-09-24



Our Fallible Pope
2015-09-23

What Donald Trump Doesn't Know about Hedge Funds
2015-09-22

The Question No Candidate Will Answer
2015-09-20

Europe Rediscovers Borders
2015-09-15

The Biggest Problem with Student Loans
2015-09-13



Portrait of a Fanatic
2015-09-11

Get Big Money Out Of Law?
2015-09-09

Inverting the First Amendment
2015-09-08

What Makes American Workers Great
2015-09-06

Kim Davis, Rightful Prisoner of Conscience
2015-09-04



Why Jeb?
2015-09-03

Why Walmart Is Reducing Worker Hours, After Raising the Minimum Wage - and Other Lessons in Reality
2015-09-02

The Data Destroyers
2015-08-30

Some 'Terrorists': For Mrs. Clinton, the Beheaders Are the Victims
2015-08-28

Needing to Be President
2015-08-27



Two Cheers for Ignorance
2015-08-26

There Is (Still) No Alternative
2015-08-25

National Fronts
2015-08-23

Paris Hilton Could Out-Trump Trump in 2016
2015-08-20

The Blessed Peace-Fakers
2015-08-16



The Sentimentalizing of N.W.A.
2015-08-14

What's Happening in China Is Happening Here
2015-08-13

Chris Cuomo, Medievalist
2015-08-12

Netanyahu and Trump: The Soldier and the Shopkeeper
2015-08-09

Trump, All Bluster and Babbitt
2015-08-08



Donald Trump and the American Id
2015-08-06

This Housing Bubble Will End Badly, Too
2015-08-04

The Insidious Political Power of Minimum-Wage Laws
2015-07-29

Fifteen Elephants and a Clown
2015-07-28

Don't Blame Staples
2015-02-12



The Search for a 'Reasonable Man'
2015-02-12

A Small Man in a Big Office
2014-11-24

Health-Care Hell
2014-11-01

City Slackers
2014-10-27

Anti-American Exceptionalism
2014-10-13



Where the Middle Class Goes to Die
2014-09-20

The Can-Do, Mustn't-Do Presidency
2014-09-07

Mayhem Is Everywhere
2014-09-07

Fox News, Enemy of State
2014-09-07

Act Locally, Wish Globally
2014-06-24



Spook Rebuke
2014-06-24

By the Book
2014-06-24

Laverne Cox Is Not a Woman
2014-06-02

The Case against Reparations
2014-05-24

Demographics Isn't Destiny
2014-04-19



Blame Washington
2014-04-19

The Liberal Gulag
2014-04-06