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American Moment Studios

The Universities Must Die (ft. Michael Gibson)

Michael Gibson, Co-Founder and General Partner at 1517 Fund, talks the failure of American universities, technological progress, and why college degrees aren’t always the right choice.

The National Interest

America Can’t Sit Out of the New Space Race

Paired with careful diplomacy and the expansion of a space-specific rules-based order, advancements in U.S. space capacity both deter and inhibit adversarial adventurism.

Responsible Statecraft

Iraq, Afghanistan Provide Lessons on US Weapons Flows

Will this latest batch of weapons headed to Ukraine finally win the peace? While this is possible, do we fully understand what we are giving up to do so? As history shows, no matter how advanced a weapon is, someone will eventually figure out a way to counter it.

Foreign Affairs

George Kennan’s Warning on Ukraine

“If alive today, Kennan would note the danger of cornering the Russians to the point where they might lash out. He would also gesture toward the United States’ multiple problems at home and wonder how this exposed presence in Eastern Europe accorded with the long-term foreign and domestic interests of the American people.”

YouTube

The Geopolitics of Microchips

The US and China are fighting a war. It’s a weird one that’s hard to see. It’s being fought in government offices, in company boardrooms. And it’s being fought over the most important technology in the world: Microchips.

Compact

Make Birth Free

Too many feel they cannot start or grow their families because of our disordered politics and warped economy…But we can reorder our culture. And that starts by making birth free, write Catherine Glenn Foster and Kristen Day.

American Reformer

Higher Ed Reform in Red States

States and professional agencies should encourage paths to work around higher ed, so that they do not have a credentialing monopoly on tomorrow’s professional class, writes Scott Yenor in American Reformer.

The Washington Times

Do We Really Need More Immigrant Workers?

We face a stark choice: Either we figure out how to get more working-age Americans back into jobs, or we allow more immigrants in and then try to deal with the social problems that low labor force participation exacerbates, writes Steven Camarota in The Washington Times.

American Moment Studios

20 Years of Main Street Conservatism (ft. Emile Doak)

In Today’s episode of “Moment of Truth,” Saurabh sits down with Emile Doak, Executive Director of The American Conservative and co-author of “Main Street Conservatism: The Future of the Right,” to discuss the history of The American Conservative Magazine, how they’ve been right from the beginning on hot button issues from the war in Iraq, to gay marriage, to illegal immigration and assimilation, and what’s at stake for the future of conservatism and the United States of America writ large.

YouTube

Trump Predicted European Energy Crisis

Flashback to 2018: President Donald Trump criticized Germany for paying “billions of dollars” to Russia, predicted Europe’s current avoidable energy predicament, and encouraged Germany to pay their fair share — eliciting laughs from German officials.

UnHerd

Capitalism Killed the American West

“In all of his writings he is resistant to the idea that settlers and small-time workers of the American West were the engines of the genocide and despoliation that came to the region in their wake.”

Modern Age

Richard Nixon, New Deal Nationalist

“Stability, security, authority, trust, balance—to the degree that the term “Burkean” means anything in the American context, surely it is in the restoration of these qualities in American public and society in the face of their precipitous decline. Where Moynihan and Nixon departed from the liberals of their time was in their modesty about policy’s ability to do anything about this.”

American Moment Studios

Why Russia Fell Flat (feat. Dr. Jon Askonas)

In Today’s episode of “Moment of Truth,” Saurabh and Nick sit down with Dr. Jon Askonas, Assistant Professor of Politics at Catholic University and Russia expert, to discuss the war in Ukraine, why Russia and the West overestimated Russia’s military capabilities, Putin’s next move, plus the future of AI, shipping, trade, China, and where the conservative movement went wrong.

YouTube

The Collapse of Globalization and America’s Retreat

Peter Zeihan, geopolitical strategist and author of The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization, joins The Realignment to discuss why 2019 may have been the world’s economic peak, which nations will rise and fall as globalization collapses, and why America’s lost interest in keeping the system going.

IM—1776

One Way Government

Any future leader on the Right serious about fixing our problems must start by aiming to dismantle the administrative state, clear out the entrenched bureaucracy and return power back to an executive who can actually govern the country.

Modern Age

Screen Epics For The Human Soul

More modest historical films often feel incomplete, insufficient; they demand scope. We intuitively understand that we cannot be part of history unless we are part of it together—part of a crowd, an infantry division, a graduating class, or even a protest.

Real Clear Politics

War and Industrial Policy

War means industry. Wars cannot be fought with supply chains that crisscross a globalized world, where production happens on faraway, little islands in the South China Sea, from where chips can be transported only if airspaces and straits remain open.

New York Times

The Town That Charles Built

Before King Charles III inherited Britain’s throne, he was a prince with strong views on architecture. Poundbury is where he tried to put them into practice.

American Affairs

Who Killed Nuclear Energy and How to Revive It

If we can commit to confronting today’s so-called environmentalists on the politi­cal and cultural fronts while preparing the transition from fossil to fission, then a radiant tomorrow awaits us.

Tablet Magazine

Germany’s Apokalypse Now

The worst nightmares of Europe’s sleeping giant are coming true all at once.

Palladium Magazine

The Mineral Conflict Is Here

The Ukraine War is resulting in the biggest shock to the global energy system since the 1973 crisis.

Quillette

Sex and the Academy

“Psychologists and other social scientists have been studying human sex differences for 100 years, and in recent decades have demonstrated that many of the differences that emerge in Western cultures are found in every other culture in which they have been studied.” ~Dave Geary

American Moment Studios

Our Fake Economy (feat. Julius Krein)

Julius Krein joins Moment of Truth to talk the financialization of the US economy, industrial policy priorities, the housing market, ESG, and more!

The American Mind

Common Good Originalism After Dobbs

Now is the time to go on the offensive, says AM Board of Advisors Member Josh Hammer, in his full speech at the NatCon III conference in Miami.

UnHerd

The American Security State Comes Home

After 21 years, it appears we have gone full circle: the War on Terror’s “you are either with us or against us” mentality has come home.

Palladium Magazine

The End of Industrial Society

The Industrial Revolution stopped before it was ever completed. The aftermath is not a clean and developed world, but lost knowledge and civilizational decline.

The American Mind

Lean Out: Why Women Can’t Have It All

“It’s no coincidence that the vast increase in female workforce participation has coincided with the reappearance of something that the more egalitarian America of the early 20th century did not have, and that is a servant class.”

American Affairs

Where the Chips Fell

Julius Krein offers his thoughts on the CHIPS Act, and an explanation of the process that birthed the final form of the Semiconductor legislation.

The American Conservative

Lighthizer Wins the Long Game

Once a voice crying out in the wilderness, the GOP trade expert has seen his ideas enter the mainstream.