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Immigration
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Jeff Sessions: Big Business Uses Immigrants For Cheap Labor
“I felt the power of groups like the Chamber of Commerce…big business intere...
True ‘Compassion’ Requires Secure Borders and Stopping Illegal Immigration
Despite the enormous challenges facing America's working class, those same maste...
By JD Vance
Immigration Has Winners and Losers
It’s way more complicated than left versus right, writes Michael Lind....
By Michael Lind
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The Case Against Immigration: Why The United States Should Look Out for Itself
Outlining his position on immigration in August of last year, Donald Trump, then...
Our Apocalyptic Border (feat. Mark Krikorian) | Ep. 22
In Today's "Moment of Truth," Saurabh and Nick sit down with Mark Krikorian, Exe...
Don’t Bother Learning to Code
Ruthless outsourcing will be the death of the American Dream, writes Pedro Gonza...
Books
They’re Not Listening: How The Elites Created the National Populist Revolution
They're Not Listening serves as a fantastic primer on the issues that young patr...
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
Douglas Murray examines the migration crisis in Europe, and how to move forward....
Melting Pot or Civil War?: A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders
For too long, liberals have suggested that only cruel, racist, or nativist bigot...
By Reihan Salam
Sovereignty
Illegal Immigration Destroys Sovereignty
Our ruling classes reject our right to govern ourselves, writes Edward J. Erler...
Citizenship, Immigration, and the Nation-State
A reply to the hysterical arguments made by progressive liberals and others....
Symposium: The Case Against Birthright Citizenship
A Claremont Institute debate series on the question of Birthright Citizenship. T...
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Podcasts
Our Apocalyptic Border (feat. Mark Krikorian) | Ep. 22
In Today's "Moment of Truth," Saurabh and Nick sit down with Mark Krikorian, Exe...
New York Values Come To Town | Ryan Girdusky on Immigration | Moment of Truth Ep. 2
In today's episode, Saurabh, Nick, and guest Ryan James Girdusky discuss Trump, ...
Christopher Caldwell: On Populism in Europe and Multiculturalism in America
Caldwell joins the American Mind podcast to talk about Orbán’s Hungary and th...
Economics
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The Right’s Biggest Struggle Today Is Confronting What The Market Does To Communities
Conservatives know how to resist the bad ideas of the left. We are less sure how...
Tucker Investigates: What Is Destroying Rural America?
The influence of Wall Street hedge funds is slowly creeping into rural America. ...
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Understanding Economic Nationalism
The free market of Goldman Sachs is not the free market of the lemonade stand....
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A New Golden Age of Governance
"We are not anywhere near a fully developed society—we are mostly not even dev...
By Wolf Tivy
The Hedge Funds Are Not Your Friends (feat. Oren Cass)
In Today's "Moment of Truth," Saurabh and Nick sit down with Oren Cass, Executiv...
Preserve The American Dream By Reining In Wall Street
A rentership society would be disastrous for the middle class and antithetical t...
By Ben Frogel
Industrial Policy
Inside Operation Warp Speed: A New Model for Industrial Policy
"OWS was a triumph of American industrial and innovation policy. It saved countl...
By David Adler
The Future of China’s Semiconductor Industry
"For the foreseeable future, the semiconductor industry will remain a critical s...
By Paul Triolo
America Needs An Industrial Policy
Arthur Herman, author of Freedom's Forge—a book that illustrates how American ...
Woke Capital
Corporate Actual Responsibility: A Conversation with Senator Josh Hawley
Senator Josh Hawley talks with American Compass executive director Oren Cass abo...
The Rise of Corporate-State Tyranny
"In wealthy societies, a large part of the corporate elite does not see widespre...
By Joel Kotkin
Corporations That Undermine American Values Don’t Deserve GOP Support
"These hypocrites want to have it both ways: to coast off everything that makes ...
Unions and Class Politics
Labor’s Conservative Heart
"Enthusiasm for a strong labor movement is anything but Marxist," writes Brian D...
The New Labor Crisis Is the Biggest Opportunity in a Generation
In a world economy that has seen labor's share of income drop for generations, t...
By Joel Kotkin
The Double Horseshoe Theory of Class Politics
According to elite neoliberalism, the US and Western Europe today are imperfect ...
By Michael Lind
Books
Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
Arthur Herman's case study on how American titans of industry worked in tandem w...
The Once and Future Worker
In this book, Oren Cass proposes a series of conservative proposals to restore t...
By Oren Cass
The National System of Political Economy
Friedrich List draws on his time in the United States to craft a nationalist the...
Family & Culture
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Welcoming Back The Traditional, One-Income Family
"Good news on the cultural front is rare in 2020s America, so we should gleefull...
By Steve Cortes
Radical Normalcy
"The New Right must resist digital fantasy and reconnect with the physical world...
By Nate Hochman
Wherever Home Is Now, Stay There
In her new book, Grace Olmstead illustrates the ills of industrial agriculture a...
By Emile Doak
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The Family Policy Imperative
We now have a system that forces would-be parents to think of their children as ...
Eduard Habsburg On Hungary’s Family Policy Successes
A TAC conversation with Hungarian ambassador to the Holy See and Twitter persona...
For the Children: America’s Fertility Rate Problem
Conservative policy-makers turn their attention to declining fertility rates, wr...
Culture and Education
Why We Can’t Count Our Country Or Do Anything Else (feat. Adam Korzeniewski)
In Today's "Moment of Truth," Saurabh and Nick sit down with former U.S. Marine...
How Critical Race Theory Led to Kendi
"Pop 'antiracism' is the logical conclusion of CRT," writes Aaron Sibarium in Th...
The West’s Cultural Revolution is Over
"The return of censorship, speech codes and taboos suggests society returning to...
By Ed West
Urbanism and Architecture
Why Architecture Is Political
"Architecture is not just the expression of our positive political values, but a...
Making Federal Architecture Great Again
Ignore the critics: President Trump’s federal architecture executive order is ...
The Aesthetics of Architecture
A landmark account of architectural theory and practice from acclaimed philosoph...
Marriage, Feminism, and Motherhood
A Civilizational Crisis
"A country that has children is a healthy country that is worth living in. It ta...
By J.D. Vance
Marriage With Family at Its Center
In trying times, spouses realize that the core of their relationship is caring f...
By Brad Wilcox
Soulmates are Fake (feat. Brad Wilcox) | Ep. 23
In Today's "Moment of Truth," Nick and Emma sit down with Brad Wilcox, Director ...
Conservation
Land, Water, Air, Body. Conserving What Matters (feat. Micah Meadowcroft) | Moment of Truth Ep. 4
In today's episode, Saurabh, Nick, and esteemed guest Micah Meadowcroft discuss ...
Look Back For The Future Of Conservative Environmentalism
Micah Meadowcroft charts the long history of environmentalism on the right from ...
The Saint of the City Goes Rural: Dorothy Day and the Life of the Land
Dorothy Day’s vision was one of learning from the land, that the cities might ...
By Myles Werntz
Foreign Policy
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Data-Driven Defeat: Information Versus Interests in Afghanistan
"A broad consensus among the D.C. foreign policy establishment has held that Ame...
By Jacob Siegel
Please Don’t Get Us into Another War (feat. John Allen Gay) | Moment of Truth Ep. 14
In today's "Moment of Truth," Saurabh, Nick and guest John Allen Gay, Executive ...
President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Warning Against The “Military Industrial Complex”
President Eisenhower's dire last-minute warning against what he called 'The Mili...
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To End Our Empire In Afghanistan (feat. Will Ruger)
In Today's "Moment of Truth," Saurabh and Jake sit down with Will Ruger, a veter...
The True Cost of War (feat. Joe Kent) | Moment of Truth Ep. 16
In Today's "Moment of Truth," Saurabh & Nick sit down with Joe Kent, former Gree...
Exiting Afghanistan: Ending America’s Longest War
“It is not too late to declare victory over the forces that compelled the Unit...
Good Reads
Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy
The United States, Barry R. Posen argues in Restraint, has grown incapable of mo...
Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
A former foreign correspondent for The Boston Globe and The New York Times, Step...
Stealth War: How China Took Over While America’s Elite Slept
Robert Spalding pulls back the curtain in the Stealth War to show the extent of ...
Great Power Competition
A Strategy for Avoiding Two-Front War
The greatest risk facing the twenty-first-century United States, short of an out...
Interests, Not Values, Should Guide America’s China Strategy
America should seek to expand its coalition of allies and partners—but based o...
The Case for Offshore Balancing
In this piece, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt argue that the United States sh...
China
Why Chinese 5G and Missile Silos Don’t Mix (feat. Commissioner Brendan Carr) | Moment of Truth Ep. 18
In Today's "Moment of Truth," Saurabh and Nick sit down with FCC Commissioner Br...
Xi Jinping in Translation: China’s Guiding Ideology
Giving context to China's stated guiding ideology with Xi Jinping at the helm, T...
By Tanner Greer
Chinese Professor Reveals Plot in Shock Video: US Elites and China Have Teamed Up to Take Control Of America
In the United States, the press, big tech, and Washington all collaborate to con...
Russia
Why Russia and China Are Strengthening Security Ties
Alexander Gabuev explores whether or not the United States has played a role in ...
Glenn Greenwald On Why People Are Afraid To Speak Out Against US-Russia Standoff
Glenn Greenwald joined Tucker Carlson Tonight to discuss escalating tensions wit...
The Imperative Of Prudent U.S.-Russia Policy
This piece argues that the United States must find a way to co-exist with Russia...
Power & Politics
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America’s Collapsing Meritocracy Is a Recipe for Revolt
Chinese history shows what happens when an old system loses its force....
Cementing the GOP as the Working-Class Party
President Trump gave the Republican Party a political gift: we are now the party...
The Real Class War
In this essay, Krein argues that the real class war in America is not between th...
By Julius Krein
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Madness in the Ruling Class: Who is leading our country?
In this episode of Feudal Future, guests Julius Krein and Aaron Renn join the sh...
Initiating American Renewal (feat. Russ Vought) | Moment of Truth Ep. 11
In today's episode, Saurabh, Nick and guest Russ Vought, President of the Center...
While Rome Burns (feat. David Azerrad) | Moment of Truth Ep. 10
In today's episode, Saurabh, Nick and guest David Azerrad discuss corruption in ...
Big Tech
The Chains of Digital Oligarchy (feat. Allum Bokhari)
In Today's "Moment of Truth," Saurabh and Nick sit down with Allum Bokhari to di...
Why Chinese 5G and Missile Silos Don’t Mix (feat. Commissioner Brendan Carr) | Moment of Truth Ep. 18
In Today's "Moment of Truth," Saurabh and Nick sit down with FCC Commissioner Br...
It’s Time For Conservatives To Take On Big Tech Tyrants. Here’s How
“If conservatives want to preserve access to the online infrastructure of comm...
Debates on Nationalism
End Nationalism, End America
Today’s globalist dogma is incompatible with our country’s survival, writes ...
By John Fonte
They’re Not Listening: How The Elites Created the National Populist Revolution
They're Not Listening serves as a fantastic primer on the issues that young patr...
Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West
Disintegrating politics in America and Europe are a sign that after three genera...
By R.R. Reno
Debates: Law and Order
Josh Hammer Explains ‘Common Good Originalism’
In this featured clip from the Moment of Truth Podcast, Josh Hammer explains dif...
Originalism, Justice, and Common-Good, Oh My! (feat. Josh Hammer) | Moment of Truth Ep. 7
In today's episode, Saurabh, Nick, and esteemed guest Josh Hammer discuss the ov...
Recover the Moral Imperative of Law and Order
Conservatives should lead the way in moving the pendulum back toward the rule of...
By Josh Hammer
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Jim Traficant: The Youngstown Prophet
No national politician of his era spoke more forcefully to what have become the ...
So, you want to win elections?
Things stopped working in this country about 50 years ago. But it wasn’t reall...
James Burnham’s Managerial Elite
Krein explores the thought of James Burnham and its development throughout his l...
By Julius Krein
History & Philosophy
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The Origins of Western Civilization
The first part in a free eight-part series hosted by Victor Davis Hanson, The Od...
The Foundationalist Manifesto: The Politics of Future Past
Charles Haywood at The Worthy House offers a way out of liberalism, presenting a...
The Managerial Revolution: What Is Happening in the World
Written during the opening phase of World War II, James Burnham proposed the the...
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Constitution 101 Lecture Series
"Learn the meaning of the Constitution and the principles of American government...
Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster
"With two recessions and a botched pandemic under their belt, the Boomers are th...
First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
Recommended by American Moment's COO Nick Solheim. ...
On Conservatism
The Masters of The Universe (feat. Attorney General Jeff Sessions)
In Today's "Moment of Truth," Saurabh and Nick sit down with Jeff Sessions, form...
Can Conservatism Be More Than a Grudge?
"Republicans in power would seldom even consider a major infrastructure program ...
By Julius Krein
American Nationalists
Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Party provides a blueprint for conservatives tod...
Art and Aesthetics
Why Architecture Is Political
"Architecture is not just the expression of our positive political values, but a...
Talking with Roger Kimball About Beaty, Aesthetics, & National Vitality
What does a civilization's idea of beauty say about it's health? When did the pr...
A Few Classics
The Old Man and the Sea
One of Hemingway’s greatest works, the old man and the sea is a parable about ...
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution is one of the founding texts of Anglo-Am...
By Edmund Burke
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