Hamilton

As he often does, Rush Limbaugh said something important on his January 21 show: he observed that nationalism and populism were overtaking conservatism, and that the conservative elite did not like that at all, not one little bit.

Hi, Alexander Hamilton here. Okay, I’ve been dead since 1804, but I still keep up with things.   And so, for example, I was amused to see groupon.com, the online daily deals company, touting a special deal, offering customers $10 off on their

Okay, let’s stipulate that the new George Clooney/Matt Damon movie, The Monuments Men, is getting mostly bad reviews. According to rottentomatoes.com, just 33 percent of film critics nationwide liked the film. And here at Breitbart News, John Hayward derided the

Camille Paglia, the liberal-conservative lesbian who adores men, observed recently that nations must never neglect their basic strengths and survival skills. As she put it, “The earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.” Perhaps she was thinking

Today in America, we see two kinds of libertarianism, which we might call “Calhounian” and “Heinleinian.” Both kinds believe in freedom, but they are very different in their emphasis–and in their politics.  The names behind the adjectives are John C.

Jobs, the new movie about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, has received middling reviews from the critics, yet it’s still a worthy and important film. Why is that? Because the events depicted in the movie–events that make Jobs look technologically brilliant

The new movie Elysium, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, is more loaded with liberal politics than an Organizing For America fundraising pitch. It’s more loaded with liberalism than an Ivy League gender studies department. More loaded, even, than an

Michael Barone is as smart a journalist–and as astute a political analyst, and as scholarly an historian–as any that we have on right.   So if he devotes one of his columns to praising a new book, America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century-Why America’s

Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) was a great patriot and a great war hero, and that’s saying plenty.    Yet effective statecraft–steering the ship of state past the shoals, toward the safe harbor–requires more than love of country and physical courage. Jackson

So which should we be more afraid of?  The US Government and its scandalous–even tyrannous–intrusions on our finances and privacy?  Or foreign enemies with their explosives, cyber-weapons, and nukes? Is your answer “both,” I agree.   But we will all

If Alexander Hamilton were alive in our time, he would have plenty to say about the seemingly endless Chinese cyber-espionage on US defense assets, which even the Defense Science Board, an advisory group to the Pentagon, admits has caused “staggering