Articles by Josh Hammer

PoliticsCommentary

The Cold Civil War Is Over. We Won.

Josh Hammer | January 25, 2025

The civilizational inflection point in our cold civil war happened sometime between Donald Trump’s second inaugural address on Monday and the end of his new… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Has Trump 2.0 Learned From Trump 1.0?

Josh Hammer | January 17, 2025

It’s hard to believe, but we’re finally here. Four years after all the Sturm und Drang that followed Donald Trump’s 2020 electoral loss to Joe… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Andrew Breitbart, Mark Zuckerberg and the Two-Way Street of Politics and Culture

Josh Hammer | January 11, 2025

The late, great Andrew Breitbart was one of the most quotable conservatives of his era. “Walk toward the fire,” he exhorted his fellow activists. “Don’t… Read More

 SecurityCommentary

Bourbon Street Massacre Is What ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Looks Like

Josh Hammer | January 03, 2025

As woke illiberalism replaced live-and-let-live liberalism as the animating ideology of the American Left, the state of Israel has increasingly found itself on the outs…. Read More

 PoliticsCommentary

Immigration Moratorium Now!

Josh Hammer | December 27, 2024

For the past few days, certain highly visible elements of the MAGA coalition have been sparring with one another. Specifically, X users have been privy… Read More

SocietyFeature

Thoughts on Fatherhood: A Post-Birth Dispatch

Josh Hammer | December 21, 2024

One year ago, almost to the day, I used this column as a “post-wedding dispatch” to offer some (very) preliminary thoughts on marriage. The column… Read More

InternationalCommentary

How Not to Think About Syria

Josh Hammer | December 13, 2024

The rapid demise of the brutal Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria has taken every geopolitical analyst and self-proclaimed Middle East “expert” by storm. Following 53… Read More

LawCommentary

In Transgender Case, Can Supreme Court Cut to the Moral Heart of the Issue?

Josh Hammer | December 07, 2024

The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in this term’s marquee case, United States v. Skrmetti. The case, out of Tennessee, nominally involves a… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

How Trump’s Youthful Cabinet Is Shaping the Future of America’s Politics

Josh Hammer | November 15, 2024

When one considers Donald Trump’s Cabinet selections announced thus far, there are a few themes that emerge. One discernible theme, which has been the subject… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Death of Obamaism and the Historic MAGA Opportunity

Josh Hammer | November 09, 2024

In a just world, Donald Trump would have won the Nobel Peace Prize for securing the historic Abraham Accords peace agreements of 2020. So too,… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Final Choice: Civilizational Arson Versus Civilizational Sanity

Josh Hammer | November 03, 2024

Every four years, we hear a refrain that the presidential election before us is the “most important election of our lifetimes.” This line is reflexively… Read More

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Donald Trump, Class Traitor Par Excellence

Josh Hammer | October 25, 2024

If there is one data point above all that suggests Donald Trump and JD Vance are headed for a resounding victory on Nov. 5, it… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Collapse of Kamala Harris

Josh Hammer | October 18, 2024

On July 26, in the aftermath of the Democratic Party’s ruthless midsummer coup of its own democratically elected presidential nominee, this column predicted that the… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Oct. 7 Apologists Are Right About One Thing: Hamas’ Terrorism Didn’t Take Place in a Vacuum

Josh Hammer | October 12, 2024

Within minutes of Hamas jihadists breaching the Israeli border on Oct. 7, 2023, and commencing the largest slaughter of the Jewish people since the Holocaust,… Read More

EducationCommentary

Penn Law’s Persecution of Professor Amy Wax Is Textbook Leftist Intolerance

Josh Hammer | September 27, 2024

Higher education has been a cesspool of anti-Americanism, censorious leftism, and cultural radicalism for longer than I have been alive. The moral rot is, and… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Why Are the Nutjobs Trying to Kill Political Opponents All Left-Wingers?

Josh Hammer | September 20, 2024

In Aug. 2012, a left-wing MSNBC aficionado named Floyd Lee Corkins armed himself with a handgun and extra magazines. He drove to the Washington, D.C.,… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Political Chasm Between Taylor Swift and Michael Jordan

Josh Hammer | September 13, 2024

In 1990, in the midst of a heated—and racially charged—U.S. Senate race in North Carolina between Republican incumbent Jesse Helms and Democratic challenger Harvey Gantt,… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Jack Smith, Democrat-Lawfare Complex Hit Man

Josh Hammer | September 01, 2024

The modern Democratic Party operates like a Mafia family. Like the Mob, Democrats have a specific organizational hierarchy. There are the grand bosses who sit… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Backstabbing Behind the Scenes at the Democratic Convention

Josh Hammer | August 23, 2024

No one is buying what Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Democratic Party are selling these days. Earlier this week, on the opening night of… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

How Republicans Can Win the Election

Josh Hammer | August 16, 2024

One of my favorite bits of ancient wisdom, which I have quoted many times over the years, is the Chinese military theorist Sun Tzu’s adage… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Kamala Harris and the Civilizational Jihad of Democratic Street Thuggery

Josh Hammer | August 09, 2024

On Jan. 21, 2017, hundreds of thousands of feminists wearing pink “pussyhats” protested the prior day’s presidential inauguration of Donald Trump by rampaging throughout Washington,… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Bloodless Coup of Joe Biden Will Not Work Out Well for Democrats

Josh Hammer | July 26, 2024

The Democratic Party ruling class’ bloodless coup of their own democratically elected presidential nominee, who also happens to be the nominal sitting president of the… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Chosen One

Josh Hammer | July 19, 2024

I think it was 2019 when I first interacted with Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio. I had just finished my judicial clerkship and begun my career… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Panicked Democrats Belatedly Coming to Grips With Their Biden Debacle

Josh Hammer | July 12, 2024

It has been two weeks since palpably senile President Joe Biden delivered the single worst performance ever given in a presidential debate, and the fallout… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Media Lied to You

Josh Hammer | July 05, 2024

Lying is certainly nothing new in politics. It is said that prostitution is the world’s oldest profession, but politics is assuredly the dirtiest—filthier even than… Read More

LawCommentary

‘No More Souters’: Strategies for Conservative Success on Judicial Nominees

Josh Hammer | July 02, 2024

The current Supreme Court term is now over, but conservatives have already suffered notable defeats in cases involving Big Tech censorship and free speech, states’… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Democrats’ Lawfare Proves Politically Impotent, Likely to Come Back to Haunt Them

Josh Hammer | June 07, 2024

Nearly 14 months after the first of four unprecedented criminal prosecutions against former President Donald Trump commenced in earnest, the Democrat-lawfare complex got its man:… Read More

 PoliticsCommentary

Will Democrats Pay a Price for Their Crumbling Lawfare Strategy Against Trump?

Josh Hammer | May 18, 2024

President Joe Biden, who wears bespoke sneakers to prevent embarrassing collapses and whose command of the English language rivals that of most kindergartners, is in… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Making of an American Banana Republic

Josh Hammer | May 10, 2024

It is a presidential election year, and a leading candidate for president of the United States, who also happens to be a former president of… Read More

 SocietyCommentary

Restore Order and Crush the Campus Jihadist Thugs

Josh Hammer | April 26, 2024

In his 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, President George Washington reached a stirring conclusion: “May the Children of the Stock… Read More