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Elon Musk, Meet Michael Anton and Friends October 21, 2024
The season has come again (actually, we’re a few weeks behind schedule) for the restorative quadrennial reading of Michael Anton’s “The Flight 93 Election,” first published at the website of the Claremont Review of Books in September 2016....
The Frolic of the Reactionaries April 12, 2023
I am normally a fan of Janan Ganesh, a wry opinion columnist at the Financial Times, whose opinion columns, compared to American ones, manage to cut in a way one can’t find elsewhere. From going after the upper-middle class to defending bachelorhood,...
On Popular Reason and Self-Rule July 21, 2022
The global establishment's assault on national sovereignty....
Reductio ad Hitlerum July 08, 2022
This is about National Review, which isn’t worth giving a lot of consideration—by you or me—so I’ll try to keep it short.One of the pitfalls of success in social media-saturated modern America is you get a lot of concern trolls. The “Claremont school...
Breakfast with the Dirt Cult March 07, 2022
Samuel Finlay’s Breakfast with the Dirt Cult (the meaning of the title is not obvious and never explained) is a thinly-veiled autobiographical account, dressed up as fiction, of an enlisted soldier’s experience in the U.S. Army, specifically, in Afgh...
Past the Point of No Return March 19, 2021
Michael Anton became the most important conservative intellectual during the Trump years, the only one to give a political explanation of the elections of 2016 and 2020, something intellectuals, voters, politicians could all agree on. His career as a...
Power to the People? November 06, 2020
Reaganland: America’s Right Turn, 1976-1980, Rick Perlstein, Simon & Schuster, 1,120 pagesThe People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism, Thomas Frank, Metropolitan, 320 pagesThe Stakes: America at the Point of No Return, Michael Anton, Regnery, 40...
The Election to End All Elections October 23, 2020
On September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93’s passengers defied armed hijackers and fought to take over the cockpit regardless of danger or odds because they realized that certain death was the alternative. Michael Anton’s 2016 essay “The Flight...
Be Afraid, Very Afraid: Part III October 21, 2020
AmazonWhile California prefers to extort, humiliate, and harass its actual citizens—especially the law-abiding, tax-paying, productive ones—it rolls out a bright red carpet for everyone else. That passage in the U.S. Constitution where it says that...
Be Afraid, Very Afraid: Part II October 16, 2020
AmazonNot that the aforementioned glamour and glory, wealth and wellness aren’t real. But they’re only part of the story—the parts that Governor Gavin, Sergey, Larry, Mark, @Jack, and, down south, Ah-nold, Steven, and the rest of tout-Hollywood wan...
Be Afraid, Very Afraid October 02, 2020
Chapter OneA hoary—but not therefore inaccurate—cliché holds that as goes California, so goes the nation. That is to say, social and political trends that first appear in the Golden State eventually—and inevitably—take hold throughout America. Exampl...
Will Social Media Companies Censor Trump in November? Michael Anton with Glenn Beck September 30, 2020
Claremont Institute Senior Fellow and former NSC Official Michael Anton speaks to Glenn Beck about his article, "The Coming Coup,” at the American Mind. Anton notes that Democrats "want to create a certain sense of chaos and ambiguity," so they can d...
A Tyranny Perpetual and Universal? September 11, 2020
After “Is 2020 another ‘Flight 93 election?’” the question I most often hear is “What happens if Trump loses?” The answer to the first question, unfortunately, is yes, but more so.The tl;dr summary of the answer to the second is: much more of the sam...
Michael Anton and the Stakes of 2020 September 09, 2020
Michael Anton was working in his small home office, almost four years ago to the day, when his wife came in and told him the news. Rush Limbaugh was reading it, on the air, right now. ‘It’ was his essay, a now notorious essay, a soon to be life chang...
The Finger in the Dike of the Election September 04, 2020
Rise and Fall of the Pajama-Boy Nietzscheans May 23, 2020
The publication of my new book, America’s Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American revolution and the Declaration that Defined It, comes at a crucial moment in American history. Academic study of the American revolution is dying on our col...
America's Delusional Elite Is Done October 25, 2019
Iwant to thank Claremont for the opportunity to reply to Michael Anton’s review of my book Bronze Age Mindset. Since at least 2015—but in fact from before Trump ever came along—there has been a tremendous intellectual disturbance or ferment online, a...
Reclaiming Our Lost Republic May 13, 2019
In February, President Trump tweeted a glowing recommendation of Michael Anton's new book, After the Flight 93 Election: The Vote that Saved America and What We Still Have to Lose. Critics were quick to pan Anton's book as a hollow attempt to “impose...
Tucker's Right May 10, 2019
ucker Carlson's cable-tv show begins identically each night. After the words “Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson Tonight”—always intoned and inflected exactly the same way—the host launches into an opening monologue on the news of the day, or...
John Marini on the Real Crisis of American Politics April 05, 2019
Senior Claremont Fellows Michael Anton and John Marini, discuss Mariniâ??s new book: â??Unmasking the Administrative State: The Crisis of American Politics in the Twenty-First Century,â?at Hillsdaleâ??s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional ...
The Real Crisis of American Politics April 04, 2019
Senior Claremont Fellows Michael Anton and John Marini, discuss Marini's new book: “Unmasking the Administrative State: The Crisis of American Politics in the Twenty-First Century,”at Hillsdale's Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies ...
Our Founders’ Common Sense Understanding of Equality March 01, 2019
“All people are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential and unalienable rights...”— John AdamsThe New Criterion recently published a review by Michael Anton of a new book by Thomas West, The Political Theory of the American Founding...
'After the Flight 93 Election' by Michael Anton February 22, 2019
In September of 2016, a short essay appeared in the Claremont Review of Books that laid out, in apocalyptic terms, the binary choice facing conservatives at the home stretch of our last presidential campaign. After the Flight 93 Election by Michael A...
