Articles by Josh Hammer

SocietyCommentary

The Only Way Out Is Through

Josh Hammer | April 14, 2023

In 2017, my friend Rod Dreher published his popular book “The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation.” Dreher’s basic prescription, already… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Indictment of Trump Loosed an Imprudent Political Genie That Can’t Be Put Back in Bottle

Josh Hammer | April 11, 2023

The Roman historian Suetonius described Julius Caesar as timid and noncommittal as he initially approached the Rubicon River—a shallow and narrow waterway that, at the… Read More

SocietyCommentary

From Stanford to Israel, Mobocracy Triumphs Over Deliberation

Josh Hammer | March 31, 2023

The very notion of republican self-governance, which has been a core tenet of Western civilization since the demise of the great monarchs of Europe, depends… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Recent Lowlights in Woke Capture of Our Once-Venerable Institutions

Josh Hammer | March 27, 2023

Lamenting the astonishing success of the activist Left’s centurylong Gramscian march through America’s major institutions is, at this juncture, old hat. Still, there have been… Read More

InternationalCommentary

DeSantis Joins the Fight for Sanity Against the Foreign Policy Blob

Josh Hammer | March 24, 2023

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ written statement to Tucker Carlson heard around the world earlier this month on the Russia-Ukraine war has caused nothing short of… Read More

 InternationalCommentary

Time to Declare War on Mexican Drug Cartels

Josh Hammer | March 10, 2023

The tragic killing of two U.S. citizens this week in the border town of Matamoros, Mexico, should—in a just world—refocus American attention on the glaring… Read More

PoliticsNews

Parents and Children Are the GOP Future

Josh Hammer | March 08, 2023

The Republican Party’s slow transformation from the Bordeaux-sipping party of Acela Corridor suburbanites into the beer-drinking party of working-class Rust Belt-ers and Sun Belt-ers has… Read More

 Health CareCommentary

Progressivism Versus Popular Sovereignty

Josh Hammer | January 27, 2023

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall sent a letter Thursday to U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on behalf of himself and 15 other state attorneys… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Kevin McCarthy Drama Underscores Impotence of Republican Elite

Josh Hammer | January 06, 2023

After Republicans clinched their narrower-than-expected new House majority in November’s midterm elections, the only relevant questions for Congress-watchers seemed to pertain to what Rep. Kevin… Read More

 Commentary

Celebrate Elon Musk, but Don’t Lose Sight of Big Tech’s Structural Problems

Josh Hammer | December 19, 2022

The story of Elon Musk’s acquisition, transformation, and public rehabilitation of Twitter is nothing short of remarkable. Here is that rarest of confluences: A right-leaning… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Returning to Pre-Trump ‘Dead Consensus’ GOP Would Be Big Mistake

Josh Hammer | December 02, 2022

In the aftermath of the Republican Party’s recent midterm elections debacle, Right-liberal sharks are circling. These devoted acolytes of what a prominent 2019 First Things… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

How Florida Became New Capital of Red State America

Josh Hammer | November 14, 2022

In what was an overall frustrating election night for Republicans, in which the oft-predicted “red wave” failed to materialize nationally, there was one state above… Read More

LawCommentary

Judges Fighting Yale Law School Show They Know ‘What Time It Is’ in America

Josh Hammer | October 17, 2022

Late last month at the sixth annual Kentucky Chapters Conference of The Federalist Society, Judge James C. Ho of the U.S. Court of Appeals for… Read More

LawCommentary

Supreme Court Set to Hear Major ‘Culture Wars’ Cases This Term

Josh Hammer | September 30, 2022

The Supreme Court begins hearing cases for its new term Monday, following its customary summer recess. If this term is anything like the last one,… Read More

 SecurityCommentary

Ron the Magnificent

Josh Hammer | September 23, 2022

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has done it again. In using already-appropriated government funds to fly 48 illegal alien Venezuelan migrants from San Antonio, Texas, to… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Welcome to Two-Tiered America

Josh Hammer | September 09, 2022

Last week, this column focused on the eye-opening recent revelations from Missouri and Louisiana’s lawsuit, still ongoing, that exposes the depth and breadth of the… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Exposing Biden Regime’s Collusion With Big Tech to Suppress Conservative Speech

Josh Hammer | September 02, 2022

On Thursday, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt unveiled some very interesting documents that his office and the office of Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry have… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Lessons From Biden’s Reckless Student Loan ‘Forgiveness’ Ploy

Josh Hammer | August 26, 2022

President Joe Biden’s new plan to “cancel” up to $10,000 in student loan debt for those making less than $125,000 annually is at once a… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

What Cheney’s Shellacking Says About Future of GOP

Josh Hammer | August 21, 2022

Last Friday, I landed in beautiful Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to speak at a pro-life summit. The summit organizers had kindly dispatched a van to transport… Read More

LawCommentary

American Stasi

Josh Hammer | August 12, 2022

Monday’s shocking images of police sirens blaring outside Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s magnificent Palm Beach, Florida, estate, will not soon be forgotten. Much has… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The New Age of Orwellianism

Josh Hammer | July 29, 2022

Community organizer and left-wing social activist Saul Alinsky wrote, in his 1971 book “Rules for Radicals,” that “he who controls the language controls the masses.”… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

How Did Democrats Become So Out of Touch With the American People?

Josh Hammer | July 23, 2022

The president of the United States, equal parts senescent and feckless, garners record-shattering low approval ratings seemingly each week. This week, a new Quinnipiac University… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Resign, Joe

Josh Hammer | July 17, 2022

It is difficult, perhaps impossible, to describe just how bad President Joe Biden is at his job. Comparisons to Jimmy Carter are pervasive, but trite—and… Read More

LawCommentary

Clarence Thomas Just Issued His Career-Defining Court Opinion

Josh Hammer | June 26, 2022

On Thursday, the single greatest living American used the occasion of his 74th birthday to remind of his greatness. He did so by issuing the… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Democrats’ Selective Outrage Over ‘Insurrections’

Josh Hammer | June 17, 2022

To listen to House Democrats’—and Reps. Liz Cheney’s and Adam Kinzinger’s, but I repeat myself—shrieks of hysteria from the opening nights of the Jan. 6… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Chesa Boudin Inflection Point in the Fight for Civilizational Sanity

Josh Hammer | June 10, 2022

Chesa Boudin is, by any reasonable measure, a nut job. Conservatives could not grow a more picture-perfect political villain in a petri dish, even if… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Difficult Search for Answers After Uvalde

Josh Hammer | May 29, 2022

I find myself shaken and stricken after the latest mass shooting, the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, that saw 19 children and two teachers… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Against American Mobocracy

Josh Hammer | May 22, 2022

In his 1838 Lyceum Address in Springfield, Illinois, a 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln spoke on “the perpetuation of our political institutions.” The speech was eerily prescient,… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

There’s a Cold War Brewing Between Biden and Everyday Americans

Josh Hammer | May 13, 2022

Last June, the Biden administration unveiled its National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism. Despite its anodyne-sounding name, the national strategy was anything but anodyne. The… Read More

LawCommentary

To Defeat Mobocracy, Justices Must Plow Ahead and Overturn Roe

Josh Hammer | May 06, 2022

The scandalous leak of a full draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s five-justice-strong majority opinion in this term’s marquee Supreme Court case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s… Read More