The American Mind’s Weekly Digest

ESSAYS

Essays of the Week are original, longer essays on an important topic.

America’s Delusional Elite Is Done

Bronze Age Pervert

Bronze Age Pervert responds to Michael Anton's review of Bronze Age Mindset.

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Bill Barr Gives a Speech

Hadley Arkes

Appraising Attorney General Barr and his critics.

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Go Westphalian, Young Man

Matthew Tyrmand

Resurgent national sovereignty movements are back and validated by expanding electoral mandates.

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FEATURE

Weekly Features present varied responses from notable commentators on a single theme, often prompted by a longer essay.

Bronze Ambition

The Editors

Twitter phenomenon Bronze Age Pervert (BAP) has attracted attention from Michael Anton in the Claremont Review of Books. What can BAP’s online success, and Anton’s review of his book, tell us about the Right in the 21st century? Curtis Yarvin, James Poulos, Tara Isabella Burton, Spencer Klavan, Second City Bureaucrat, and Dan DeCarlo respond.

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VIDEO

Watch as Michael Anton and Christopher Caldwell discuss the uncertainty and obstructionism surrounding Britain's supposedly impending exit from the E.U.

Christopher Caldwell is a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute and Contributing Editor of the Claremont Review of Books, where he recently published an extensive analysis of bureaucratic opposition to Brexit (Why Hasn’t Brexit Happened? Summer 2019).

Michael Anton is a Lecturer and Research Fellow at Hillsdale College, a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, and a former national security official in the Trump administration.

PODCAST

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