American Federalist Journal
Monday - October 21, 2019



Featured articles by Victor Davis Hanson



Kurdish, Syrian, and Turkish Ironies
2019-10-15

Keep It Steady and Cool with Iran, America
2019-10-01

Our Privileged Scolds
2019-09-24

CNN: Everything but the News
2019-09-17

All in the Comey Family
2019-09-10



Israel's Good and Bad New Realities
2019-09-03

Trump - or What, Exactly?
2019-08-27

Progressive Democrats Renounce Their Former Selves
2019-08-20

How Robert O'Rourke Became 'Beto'
2019-08-12

Democrats' Debate Cowardice, Hypocrisy, and Nuttiness
2019-08-06



100 Years of the Hoover Institution
2019-07-30

Who's Really Winning the North Korea Standoff?
2018-02-15

Scandal, Corruption, Lawbreaking - And So What?
2018-02-13

FISA-gate Is Scarier than Watergate
2018-02-08

A Year of Achievement
2018-02-07



The FISA-Gate Boomerangs
2018-02-06

Rethinking the Geography of Power
2018-02-01

Hillary's 'Sure' Victory Explains Most Everything
2018-01-30

Will Unfinished Train Overpasses Become California's Stonehenge?
2018-01-25

The Trillion-Dollar Chameleon
2018-01-18



President Nobama
2018-01-16

Trump Threatens to Deal Another Blow to the Palestinian Cause
2018-01-11

From Resistance to Nullification to What Next?
2018-01-09

Will Nuclear North Korea Survive 2018?
2018-01-04

The Great Experiment
2018-01-03



Civilization's 'Darkest Hour' Hits the Silver Screen
2017-12-28

The Bigmouth Tradition of American Leadership
2017-12-27

Christmas Lessons from California
2017-12-21

Is Trump an Island?
2017-12-19

Why Trump Should Consider a Post-Twitter Presidency
2017-12-14



One Mueller-Investigation Coincidence Too Many
2017-12-12

Pearl Harbor and the Legacy of Carl Vinson
2017-12-07

Cruelty and Sexual Harassment
2017-12-05

Who Watches the Watchmen?
2017-11-29

Trump's Fate
2017-11-28



China's New Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
2017-11-23

America's Indispensable Friends
2017-11-16

Let Down at the Top
2017-11-14

Remembering Stalingrad 75 Years Later
2017-11-09

Don't Forget Middle East Madness
2017-11-07



Who Gets to Have Nuclear Weapons - and Why?
2017-11-02

The Advantages of Liberal Insurance
2017-10-31

The Islamic State and the Limitations of Cruelty
2017-10-26

The 'Never Trump' Construct
2017-10-24

An Avoidable Great War
2017-10-19



The Deadly Cost of Mutual Misunderstanding
2017-10-18

The Axis Was Outmatched from the Start
2017-10-17

A Classical War of Modern Violence
2017-10-16

It's 1968 All Over Again
2017-10-12

A Vicious Virtue
2017-10-10



The Glass House of the NFL
2017-10-05

Are Wars Caused by Accidents?
2017-10-03

How Silicon Valley Turned Off the Left and Right
2017-09-28

The Progressive Octopus
2017-09-26

Allegations of Foreign Election Tampering Have Always Rung Hollow
2017-09-21



The Strange Case of Confederate Cool
2017-09-19

What If South Korea Acted Like North Korea?
2017-09-14

Throwing Away the Russian Card
2017-09-12

Beware of Narratives and Misinformation
2017-09-07

Two Resistances
2017-09-05



Linguistic McCarthyism
2017-08-31

Trump Haters, Supporters, Neither, and Both
2017-08-29

The Double Standard in the Progressive War against the Dead
2017-08-24

Our War against Memory
2017-08-22

Silicon Valley Billionaires Are the New Robber Barons
2017-08-17



Is There Still a Conservative Foreign Policy?
2017-08-15

Is California Cracking Up?
2017-08-10

Why Does the Left Suddenly Hate Russia?
2017-08-08

The Problem of Competitive Victimhood
2017-08-03

Trump - And the Use and Abuse of Madness
2017-08-01



Trump's Circular Firing Squad
2017-07-27

The Korean Games of Thrones
2017-07-25

Putin's Playthings
2017-07-20

The Fifth American War
2017-07-18

West Can Neither Live with nor Take Out North Korean Nukes
2017-07-13



Trump's Anti-Cairo Speech
2017-07-11

The Fracking Industry Deserves Our Gratitude
2017-07-06

The Progressive Boomerang
2017-06-29

What Is the Alternative to Trump Derangement?
2017-06-27

Trump and His Generals
2017-06-22



The Architecture of Regime Change
2017-06-20

Can a Divided America Survive?
2017-06-15

The Endless Ironies of Donald J. Trump
2017-06-13

Mr. Nunes Went to Washington
2017-06-08

It's the Hypocrisy, Stupid
2017-06-06



The Old German Problem
2017-06-01

The Fusion Party
2017-05-30

Has Globalism Gone Off the Rails?
2017-05-25

Regime Change by Any Other Name?
2017-05-23

Severed Heads
2017-05-16



Can Trump Successfully Remodel the GOP?
2017-05-11

How to Blow an Election - in Five Easy Steps
2017-05-09

Potemkin Universities
2017-05-04

You Gotta Lie
2017-05-02

Will 2020 Be Another 1972 for Democrats?
2017-04-27



Nukes + Nuttiness = Neanderthal Deterrence
2017-04-25

Apocalyptic Progressivism
2017-04-20

Obama Is America's Version of Stanley Baldwin
2017-04-13

The Obama Administration's Zelig
2017-04-11

Ancient Laws, Modern Wars
2017-04-06



Journey to the Center of the Country
2017-04-04

Devin Nunes and Washington's Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery inside an Enigma
2017-03-31

The Yanks over There - 100 Years Ago
2017-03-30

The Russian Farce
2017-03-28

Law Takes a Holiday
2017-03-23



Monasteries of the Mind
2017-03-21

Deterrence and Human Nature
2017-03-16

The World on January 20, 2017
2017-03-14

Don't Sweat the Big Stuff
2017-03-09

The Ancient Laws of Unintended Consequences
2017-03-07



Talk Radio, Cable News, the Mainstream Media, and the News Revolution
2017-03-04

Is the American Elite Really Elite?
2017-03-02

The Labyrinth of Illegal Immigration
2017-02-23

The Three-Headed Hydra of the Middle East
2017-02-16

California Goes Confederate
2017-02-09



When Normalcy Is Revolution
2017-02-02

The Democrat Patient
2017-01-31

The World Turned Upside-Down
2017-01-26

Prosperity Is Destiny
2017-01-24

It's No Revelation That Intelligence Agencies Are Politicized
2017-01-19



Putin, Obama - and Trump
2017-01-17

Hate-Crime Legislation Is a Good Idea That Went Bad
2017-01-12

What Exactly Is Trumpism?
2017-01-10

Why the Anti-Israel Sentiment?
2017-01-05

It's Still a Mad, Mad California
2017-01-03



The Resilience of Israel
2016-12-29

The Ancient Foreign Policy
2016-12-27

The Trump Nail in the Media Coffin
2016-12-22

The Animal Cunning and Instinct of Donald Trump
2016-12-20

Has Trump Nominated Too Many Military Leaders-Or Not Enough?
2016-12-15



Assessing the Obama Legacy-Against His Own Mileposts
2016-12-08

The Twin Pillars of Progressive Prejudice
2016-12-06

'Clever Fox' Mattis
2016-12-03

Beware the Law of Unintended Consequences
2016-12-01

A Party of Teeth-Gnashers
2016-11-29



Enemies of Language
2016-11-24

Who Are Wise, Who Not?
2016-11-22

Trump's Bizarre Winning Formula
2016-11-17

Carpe Diem, Mr. Trump
2016-11-15

A Blow to the Non-Elite Elite
2016-11-10



The Election Fables of 2016
2016-11-08

Has Clinton Topped Nixon?
2016-11-03

The Clintons - At the End of All Things
2016-11-01

The Election Year Features More Than One Presidential Race
2016-10-20

Our Neutron Bomb Election
2016-10-18



Medieval America
2016-10-13

The Tenth Life of Donald Trump
2016-10-11

From Greek Tragedy to American Therapy
2016-10-06

Is Trump Admiral Bull Halsey or Captain Queeg?
2016-10-04

The Next President Unbound
2016-09-29



A Hard Rain Is Going to Fall
2016-09-22

The Legacies of Barack Obama
2016-09-15

Is Deference Really Safer than Deterrence?
2016-09-13

Trump Up, Hillary Down, Obama Out
2016-09-08

The Virtue-Mongers
2016-09-06



The More Things Change, the More They Actually Don't
2016-09-01

Diversity: History's Pathway to Chaos
2016-08-25

The Nine Lives of Donald J. Trump
2016-08-23

Where's the Letter from Democratic Security Officials Opposing Hillary?
2016-08-18

The Great Regression
2016-08-16



Hillary's Neoliberals
2016-08-11

Donald Trump, Postmodern Candidate
2016-08-04

A Convention of the Absurd
2016-08-02

Douglas MacArthur's Brilliant, Controversial Legacy
2016-07-30

When a War Went Worldwide 75 Years Ago
2016-07-28



Trump and the Politics of Moral Outrage
2016-07-26

The Dream of Muslim Outreach Has Become a Nightmare
2016-07-21

Ten Reasons Why Trump Could Win
2016-07-19

Fundamentally Transformed
2016-07-12