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For the second time in the Trump presidency, the Right is debating the concept of the common good and how that concept fits within the American political tradition. During Donald Trump's first term, the "common good" debate raged because the ...

Every year, RealClear Media Fund presents the Samizdat Prize - the "Sami" for short - an award for individuals who have courageously resisted censorship and stood for the principles of the First Amendment. Why do we do this? Because we get the future ...

The recent Senate hearing on judicial impeachment prompted the predictable response: that Congress has no business second-guessing judges for anything short of criminal conduct. This conventional wisdom deserves more scrutiny than it typically ...

In any competition, there is always an underdog who thinks, "This is our year." Politics are no different, with Democrats perennially dreaming of a statewide win in Texas. For Republicans, that dream is winning in Minnesota, where years of fraud have ...

Well, Donald Trump has done it again! He stumped the chumps. The "chumps" in this case were the "blue-chip" academic and financial economists whose consensus forecast this time last year was of high inflation and low economic growth. Wrong on both ...

The following is an excerpt from "Socialism and the Democratic Party: The Case for a Return to Moderated Capitalism," published by RealClear Publishing/Amplify Publishing Group, April 2026. At this point in American history, the only path for our ...

What is going on in the People's Republic of Minnesota? The Democrat establishment in the Gopher State is nothing like it was back in the Reagan years, with ex-Vice President Walter Mondale or Gov. Rudy Perpich. The insurrectionist echoes of their ...

Racial discrimination is alive and well in higher education. That's what the Trump administration strongly - and rightly - suspects. In late March, the Department of Justice opened investigations into admissions policies at three major medical ...

Western civilization arose in the 8th century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial culture of Mycenaean Greece. But what reemerged were ...

When I interviewed Secretary Scott Bessent last Friday at the Reagan Library, he made a number of important points. Wartime points. That is why I have called him the best wartime Treasury secretary since World War II. First of all, at the direction ...