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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 Brendan Carr to discuss China, 5G, Huawei, [...]
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Immigration
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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
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, ...
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Don’t Bother Learning to Code
Ruthless outsourcing will be the death of the American Dream, writes Pedro Gonza...
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
Economics
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Corporations That Undermine American Values Don’t Deserve GOP Support
"These hypocrites want to have it both ways: to coast off everything that makes ...
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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Why Republicans Must Rethink Antitrust
The right must recover the Republican tradition of skepticism towards centralize...
The Abandonment of Small Cities in the Rust Belt
The loss of manufacturing jobs gutted these smaller metropolitan and rural areas...
Freedom, Fairness or Flourishing: America’s Fundamental Economic Policy Choice
What should the overarching goal for our nation’s economic policy be? Robert D...
Industrial Policy
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 ...
The Economic Foundations of Industrial Policy
Industrial policy is back on the national agenda. From Marco Rubio on the right ...
Woke Capital
The Rise of Corporate-State Tyranny
"In wealthy societies, a large part of the corporate elite does not see widespre...
By Joel Kotkin
Family & Culture
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Wherever Home Is Now, Stay There
In her new book, Grace Olmstead illustrates the ills of industrial agriculture a...
By Emile Doak
Stop Hedging, Start Marrying
"But unless we can shift from treating all citizens first and foremost as separa...
So How About Those Family Values (feat. Terry Schilling) | Moment of Truth Ep. 5
In today's episode, Saurabh, Nick, and esteemed guest Terry Schilling discuss ge...
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Manhood in Crisis: The Protestant Regression (feat. Aaron Renn) | Moment of Truth Ep. 19
In Today's "Moment of Truth," Nick and Emma sit down with Aaron Renn, Founder of...
The Family Policy Imperative
We now have a system that forces would-be parents to think of their children as ...
Oren Cass and Matt Bruenig Debate Child Benefit Reform
Reformers on the left and right often disagree on the best way to approach a fam...
Culture and Education
The Narcissistic Fall of France
"If we consent to set aside for a moment the particular case of France (and real...
A Thread Fraying But Unbroken (feat. Sohrab Ahmari) | Moment of Truth Ep. 13
In today's episode, Saurabh, Nick and guest Sohrab Ahmari, Op-Ed editor of the N...
When Harry Became A Goat Farmer (feat. Ryan T. Anderson) | Moment of Truth Ep. 12
In today's episode, Saurabh, Nick and guest Ryan T. Anderson, President of the E...
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
Abortion is Unconstitutional
“On the question whether, under the Fourteenth Amendment as it stands, the unb...
By John Finnis
For Clinton Feminists, Not All Women Are Equal
Female liberation has been captured by a wealthy elite, writes Mary Harrington i...
The Working-Class Welfare Trap: How Policy Penalizes Marriage
Wilcox and Randolph explore how current welfare policy creates a “marriage pen...
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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Biden’s Global, Muscular Liberalism is an Indefensible Foreign Policy in 2021
"Global, muscular liberalism of both parties has manifestly failed to deliver th...
Getting Out Is Biden’s Best Syria Policy
To think the U.S. is the key to building a modern Syrian state from scratch is t...
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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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...
The Irresistible Rise of the Civilisation-State
Western liberalism has no answer to assertive powers that take pride in their cu...
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...
The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy
In The Hell of Good Intentions, Stephen Walt critiques liberal hegemony and the ...
By Stephen Walt
America’s War for the Greater Middle East
From the 1983 Beirut bombing to the Iraq War and the later rise of ISIS, Andrew ...
Great Power Competition
The Imperative Of Prudent U.S.-Russia Policy
This piece argues that the United States must find a way to co-exist with Russia...
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...
Power & Politics
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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
Against The Dead Consensus
This statement by a group of leading thinkers calls for a new consensus to repla...
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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 ...
Why is Everything Liberal?
Cardinal preferences explain why all institutions are woke, writes Richard Hanan...
Big Tech
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...
Tucker: Big Tech’s Coordinated Suppression Amounts to a ‘Censorship Cartel’
Tucker Carlson breaks down troubling political censorship during and after the r...
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 Managerial Revolution: What Is Happening in the World
Written during the opening phase of World War II, James Burnham proposed the the...
Daniel McCarthy: National Conservatism in the Early American Republic
Daniel McCarthy's remarks during the "American National Conservatism" panel at t...
By Dan McCarthy
Hamilton’s Republic: Readings in the American Democratic Nationalist Tradition
Michael Lind traces the line of Hamiltonian thinking in America and its impact o...
By Michael Lind
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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. ...
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Recommended reading by TAC Editor Micah Meadowcroft in his latest podcast appear...
On Conservatism
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...
What’s Next? The Republicans
A new fusionism is forming that evaluates social, economic, and foreign policies...
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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