Matthew Continetti

College students need to hear from people like Freddy. They need to hear what makes America great. Public opinion data show a decline in national pride and patriotism, especially among 18- to 29-year-olds. The numbers are a warning.

William Safire’s ‘4 I’s’ sank Carter, doomed Biden and now threaten Trump.

Earlier this year the Supreme Court justice explained the political philosophy of the American Founding—and what’s required to preserve it.

I had not heard of Charlie Hebdo, the French version of Mad, until the morning of January 7, when three Islamic terrorists stormed the offices of the satirical weekly and murdered 12 editors, staffers, and cartoonists. The innocents were killed because they worked for a publication that had published cartoons the jihadists found “insulting” to Islam.

It can’t be manufactured; it’s organic. And it’s the difference between winning and losing. Republicans don’t have it. Democrats do.

The party’s rage against Trump strengthens the millennial Jacobins who don’t share its interests.

If history is any guide, he will easily clear the Republican field, but will struggle in the general.

If President Trump wants to win this war, he must deliver crippling blows to the Islamic Republic’s government.

If past is prologue, it will take a miracle or significantly inaccurate polling for Republicans to mitigate their losses in the 2026 elections.

The president's approval rating is sinking. War in the Middle East is unpopular. Infighting consumes Congress, and the domestic agenda has crawled to a halt.