Articles by Josh Hammer

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

SocietyCommentary

Questions Elon Musk Must Answer to Assure Us He Can Reform Twitter

Josh Hammer | April 29, 2022

The impending acquisition of Twitter by the world’s wealthiest person, Elon Musk, is one of the most improbable developments out of the business world—and, indeed,… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Against ‘Principled Loserdom’

Josh Hammer | April 25, 2022

I was in New Haven, Connecticut, this past week for a couple of events at Yale, one of which was a William F. Buckley, Jr…. Read More

SocietyCommentary

Censorship of Hunter Biden’s Laptop Confirms Need to Rein in Big Tech or Cease to Be Free People

Josh Hammer | April 01, 2022

On the precipice of the regime-defining 2020 presidential election, Facebook and Twitter committed their “Pearl Harbor attack” against the incumbent president, Donald Trump, and in… Read More

LawCommentary

Reject Ketanji Brown Jackson

Josh Hammer | March 25, 2022

The issue with Ketanji Brown Jackson, the 51-year-old federal appellate judge who is our senile president’s Supreme Court nominee, is not necessarily her on-paper qualifications…. Read More

SocietyCommentary

Republicans, Embrace the Culture War and Cruise to Victory

Josh Hammer | March 18, 2022

For conservatives and Republicans, the present flare-up in Ukraine has shone a spotlight on the extent to which there is profound foreign policy disagreement within… Read More

InternationalCommentary

Of Course Putin Invaded Ukraine Under Biden’s Watch

Josh Hammer | February 25, 2022

In February 2014, Russian kingpin Vladimir Putin invaded and subsequently annexed the Crimean Peninsula, which had been under Ukrainian jurisdiction. The timing was no accident,… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Appeals to ‘Cancel Culture’ Have Limits

Josh Hammer | February 08, 2022

The metastasis of the woke ideology, which seeps through our moribund body politic like a cancer, has shocked the conscience of many who still cling… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Will We Ever Eradicate the Cancer of Identity Politics?

Josh Hammer | January 28, 2022

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court finally granted a writ of certiorari in two now-consolidated affirmative action cases, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College… Read More

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