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My quest for Robert, Lord Skidelsky to write an essay for The American Conservative started in earnest after a Duke of Marlborough (James Spencer-Churchill) tweet (it was still called that then), wherein Marlborough wrote that Winston Churchill, his great uncle, would be appalled at the use of the wartime prime minister’s name to continue the needless loss of life in Ukraine in preference to a negotiated compromise. The tweet he was responding to was from Lord Ashcroft, who described Volodymyr Zelensky as a modern Churchill. I wrote an email to ask whether Skidelsky would be interested in writing an op-ed…

President George W. Bush announces Roberts’s nomination to be Chief Justice (2005) When John Roberts appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2005, he offered one of the most memorable metaphors in confirmation hearing history. “Judges are like umpires,” he told senators. “Umpires don’t make the rules; they apply them.” He promised to call balls and strikes, nothing more. Twenty years later, that promise stands as one of the most consequential deceits in the history of the American judiciary. Roberts has not been an umpire. He has been a pitcher, a batter, and the groundskeeper, and he has consistently rigged…

Back in 2020, the Democrats rejected the sensible centrist position and chose Peak Woke instead, which will drag them down into the abyss. Source link

It is shocking how many people with major media platforms would rather see Iran win its battle to preserve its nuclear program than have President Trump achieve some kind of success. Source link

What's Worse Than a 'Do-Nothing' Congress? This One Source link

Supreme Court Trusts Americans Not to Be Racist, I Don't Source link

The European Union is the “chief of all cowards,” Amnesty International declared in a searing statement issued on April 21. The condemnation was a direct response to the European bloc’s systemic failure to sever ties with Israel during the Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Luxembourg. Despite months of legal warnings, the EU once again prioritized procedural safety over the urgency of human life. The efforts to press the EU to finally take a moral position were led by a coalition of Spain, Ireland, and Slovenia, later joined by Belgium. They argued that the EU-Israel Association Agreement – the legal framework…

I was a Federal government whistleblower, revealing the failure of Iraq’s reconstruction at a time when everyone from President Barack Obama to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was praising it as the solution to America’s nation-building expedition. I made public information that the government wished to keep quiet—though in my case everything was unclassified, albeit hidden away. I gained little from all this, instead being forced into early retirement by my employer, the State Department, ahead of being fired or prosecuted. I know from bitter personal experience the difference between whistleblowers, leakers, and spies, all of whom expose what the…

Photograph Source: Margo Martin – Public Domain The US-Israel war on Iran is now two months old. By every measurable indicator, it is a catastrophe. Operation Epic Fury began on February 28, 2026, with joint US-Israeli strikes that killed Supreme Leader Khamenei. The architects of this operation apparently believed that decapitating Iran’s leadership would produce capitulation. They were wrong. Iran retaliated by doing precisely what every serious analyst had warned it would do: it closed the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow chokepoint through which roughly 20 percent of the world’s oil supply flows daily. Two months later, the ledger…

It’s been an interesting 2026, to say the least. The Iran War, which is exposing ideological divisions within MAGA, has brought the American right to an inflection point. A movement that once prided itself on rejecting foreign entanglements is now grappling with their familiar logic. For supporters, that tension raises an uncomfortable question. Was MAGA ever a coherent political doctrine, or was it always something more flexible and more personal? That distinction matters because it shapes what, and who, comes next. If MAGA is defined more by proximity to President Donald Trump than by principles, succession becomes a question of…