Articles by Josh Hammer

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

International Commentary

Hold Obama-Biden Foreign Policy Responsible for Iran’s Unprecedented Attack on Israel

Josh Hammer | April 19, 2024

The terrorist Iranian regime’s unprecedented recent attack on Israel, which included 185 drones, 36 cruise missiles, and 110 surface-to-surface missiles, is an unambiguous casus belli—an… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

John Eastman and the Left’s War on the Legal Profession

Josh Hammer | April 05, 2024

John Eastman is a lawyer, a legal scholar, and a friend. I got to know John—a former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, candidate… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Oblivious to the Irony: Democratic Party Becoming Enemy of Democracy

Josh Hammer | March 08, 2024

I remember learning about democracy back in grammar school. We learned about it in the context of the American Revolution: Britain’s King George III may… Read More

LawCommentary

Trump’s Fainthearted SCOTUS Picks Could Doom Him in DC Election Case

Josh Hammer | March 04, 2024

One of the more underappreciated recent trends in American law and politics, obscured by a few high-profile conservative victories at the Supreme Court and thus… Read More

LawCommentary

Alabama Supreme Court’s Embryo Ruling Embodies America’s Legal Heritage

Josh Hammer | February 23, 2024

Leftists have spent much of the past week up in arms about a ruling Feb. 16 from the Alabama Supreme Court. At first blush, it… Read More

EducationCommentary

Claudine Gay Is Not a Martyr

Josh Hammer | January 05, 2024

The trials and tribulations of Claudine Gay, the former president of Harvard University who resigned this week after being exposed as both a Jew-hatred apologist… Read More

SocietyCommentary

When Marriage Becomes a Countercultural Phenomenon

Josh Hammer | December 27, 2023

I write this week as a very different man than I was when writing my last column. Then, I was merely engaged; now, after the… Read More

Education Commentary

For Hanukkah, Let’s Vow to Defeat the New Oppressors: Higher Education

Josh Hammer | December 08, 2023

We know from history that Jew-hatred, the world’s oldest and once again most fashionable form of bigotry, is the chameleon of all hates—forever taking on… Read More

International Commentary

Why Anything Short of Total Eradication of Hamas Isn’t Enough

Josh Hammer | December 01, 2023

For a week now, the world has watched a high-stakes, emotionally draining, and dangerous game being played out in Gaza. What began as a mediated… Read More

Education Commentary

How University of Michigan Failed to Protect My Right to Free Speech

Josh Hammer | November 27, 2023

I arrived at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Thursday, Nov. 16, to deliver a speech on Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza…. Read More

InternationalCommentary

To Give Peace a Chance, Hamas Must Free All Hostages and Surrender

Josh Hammer | November 03, 2023

Just as the Israel Defense Forces encircle the Hamas stronghold of Gaza City, calls for a “cease-fire” are accelerating. For the first week or two… Read More

InternationalCommentary

Emboldened Global Jihad Is Final Nail in Coffin of Mass Migration Delusion

Josh Hammer | October 27, 2023

The weeks since the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in Israel—in which the most Jews were slaughtered in a single day than at any time since… Read More

InternationalCommentary

The Gaza Blood Libel and Netanyahu’s Test To Come

Josh Hammer | October 20, 2023

The Israel Defense Forces’ much-anticipated ground invasion of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip has not yet commenced, but the world’s attention has already begun to shift… Read More

InternationalCommentary

Are You With the Islamist Savages Who Committed Nazi-Level Atrocities, or Against Them?

Josh Hammer | October 13, 2023

I write, of all places, from picturesque Northern Italy. I am here for a wedding where, as the case may be, both bride and groom… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Fetterman’s Slovenliness Represents Demise of Objective Social Standards

Josh Hammer | September 22, 2023

The U.S. Senate, once known as the “world’s greatest deliberative body,” will now permit its members to grace its chamber floor wearing whatever clothes—no matter… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Hunter’s Gun Indictment Is Moment of Truth for Biden Regime

Josh Hammer | September 15, 2023

Thursday’s indictment of presidential prodigal son Hunter Biden on three gun-related criminal counts is the latest twist in the long, winding, and rapidly escalating saga… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Abraham Lincoln’s Painful Message for the Pro-Life Movement

Josh Hammer | August 12, 2023

Pro-lifers waited 49 grueling years to see the judicial barbarism of Roe v. Wade finally overturned in last year’s blockbuster Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Following Affirmative Action’s Demise, DEI Must Be Destroyed

Josh Hammer | July 21, 2023

On Thursday, Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martinez announced that the embattled associate dean for “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” or DEI, Tirien Steinbach, has resigned…. Read More

SocietyCommentary

Democrats’ Assault on ‘Our Democracy’

Josh Hammer | July 07, 2023

At least as far back as the inauguration of President Donald Trump in January 2017 and the “Women’s March” that followed the next day, Democrats… Read More

LawCommentary

Supreme Court Ends the Last Vestige of ‘Systemic Racism’ in America

Josh Hammer | June 30, 2023

On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the greatest majority opinion ever written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. That one-time Obamacare savior, who… Read More

SecurityCommentary

Don’t Let Hunter’s Plea Deal Distract From the Real Biden Problem: Ukraine

Josh Hammer | June 23, 2023

In today’s America, it sure is nice to be a Biden. Presidential prodigal son Hunter Biden’s transparently sweetheart plea deal consummated this week with his… Read More

SocietyCommentary

We Are Jews Against Soros

Josh Hammer | June 12, 2023

George Soros is an evil man. In fact, he is one of the most evil men currently shaping American and Western politics, and global events… Read More