On the Hidden Truth Show. Robert Spencer, Director of Jihad Watch, reveals shocking details about how BLM and Islamic terrorists share ideology, strategy, and objectives, and are, in fact, actively working together. Spencer also discusses the connection between ISIS and the Las Vegas shooting, Israel’s connection to the Beirut warehouse blast, the Israel-UAE peace deal, […]
We Haven’t Seen Political Violence Like This in America Since… the Civil War
My latest in the American Thinker: The murder of Trump supporter Jay Bishop by Black Lives Matter rioter Michael Reinoehl in Portland Saturday night was a watershed moment, an introduction of the political violence that has been common in many other countries but has seldom been seen in America. However, it does have antecedents: the […]
Why Racial Tensions Are So High in the Least Racist Society on Earth
My latest in PJ Media: Rational analysts — that is, admittedly a small and vanishing group — agree: the Black Lives Matter narrative about “systemic racism” in the United States is completely contrary to reality. It is propaganda constructed in order to exacerbate racial division and has about as much truth to it as the […]
When Democrats Say ‘the People,’ They Mean ‘the Government’
My latest in the American Thinker: In his inaugural address, Donald Trump announced that “today we are not merely transferring power from one Administration to another, or from one party to another — but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the American People. For too long, a small […]
Rating America’s Presidents: A Much-Needed Way to Rediscover America
Bryan Preston is the author of Hubble’s Revelations: The Amazing Time Machine and Its Most Important Discoveries. He’s a writer, producer, veteran, author, and Texan. Here, he offers a terrific review of my new book, Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster. I’ve […]
The Way It Isn’t: Bruce Hornsby and the Myth of the Party Switch
My latest at PJ Media: The media establishment has made it a never-ending series: features on the political views of public figures who just happen to be far-Leftists. The latest ran in the Independent on Wednesday: musician Bruce Hornsby, author of the deathless eighties classic “The Way It Is,” reminiscences about growing up in the […]
What’s Wrong with Putting America First?
My latest in the American Thinker: The overarching lesson of the triumphant Republican National Convention this week is that America is great, and that it is good and proper for an American president to put America first. In that, of course, the RNC is echoing President Trump’s consistent statements since he began running for president […]
The Original Deep State
My latest in the American Thinker: Donald Trump is not the first president to face down a deep-state cabal, that is, an unelected oligarchy of shadowy figures who wielded enormous power while being unaccountable to the American public. The first was President Andrew Jackson, who faced down the Bank of the United States in the […]
Rating America’s Presidents: ‘intellectual rigor and fearlessness in resisting facile orthodoxy’
“Robert Spencer’s greatest contribution to the public debate has always been intellectual rigor and fearlessness in resisting facile orthodoxy. In Rating America’s Presidents, he makes his cynosure President Donald Trump’s guiding tenet: The duty of America’s president is, simply, to put America’s interests first. His effort to apply the same metrics to every chief executive […]
Trump is Not the First President to Face Down a Deep State Cabal
And just as is the case today, that President had to kill it, or it would kill him. My latest in FrontPage: The far-Left rioters who attempted to topple the statue of Andrew Jackson in Washington, DC’s Lafayette Square several weeks almost certainly know nothing whatsoever about him. What they were told in the Antifa […]
Rating America’s Presidents: ‘Quite a treat…a helpful remedy to the established mainstream views’
Here is an excellent and detailed review of my new book, Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster, which is out this week, and which you can order here now. “Rating America’s Presidents,” review by Loren Rosson, August 6, 2020: There’s a new […]
Rating America’s Presidents: ‘A magnificent work; thorough, impressive, robust, not to mention eminently readable’
“A magnificent work; thorough, impressive, robust, not to mention eminently readable. Spencer has the brain the size of a small planet, and it shows. His groundbreaking analysis of our presidents is a must-read, and should be on the bookshelves of every home, classroom, and library.” — Nick Adams, author of Trump and Churchill: Defenders of […]
Fighting Back against the Left’s War on Our History
My latest in the American Thinker: If we’re going to make America great again, we have to know what made it great in the first place. That’s why the Left went into a frenzy of vandalism in tearing down statues earlier this summer, not just of Confederates but of those notable slaveowners Lincoln, Grant, and […]
The Difference Donald Trump Has Made
Donald Trump is so passionately loved — and fanatically hated — partly because he has changed the course of the United States, both domestically and internationally, for the first time since before World War II. Some believe that he has upset the world order that has prevented a third world war, and risks plunging the […]
How America got into this fix — and how we can get out
America’s problem for years now has been bipartisan. Four disastrous presidencies in a row — Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43, and Obama — have left America weaker, more dangerous, and poorer than it had been and could have been. Find out exactly what these four presidents did wrong, and how the nation’s situation has now […]
We can’t make America great again without knowing what made it great in the first place
There have been at least 20 surveys of historians rating the Presidents of the United States from “Great” to “Failure,” since 1948. With some variations, they show a remarkable unanimity: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt usually place in the top tier, with Ulysses S. Grant, Warren G. Harding, […]
Dennis Prager: Rating America’s Presidents ‘an important ― and enjoyable ― book’
“One thing virtually every American can agree on is that every ranking of American presidents is a reflection of the values of the person or persons making those rankings. So, if you share the left-wing values of the vast majority of academics and journalists, you will certainly be pleased with how highly Woodrow Wilson and […]
“A cogent, clearly-explained standard for rating the presidents: ‘How good were they for America?’”
“Robert Spencer has applied a cogent, clearly-explained standard for rating the presidents: ‘How good were they for America?’ His rankings are consistent, fair, and in my view, appropriate (we might differ strongly about Old Hickory, whom I think was a long-term disaster for the United States, but that’s just me). No list that has anyone […]
Video: Robert Spencer on the Left’s War on History and Its Antidote
After some misadventures trying to set it up, I succeeded yesterday in hosting a livestream in which I discussed my forthcoming book, Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster, as well as a host of other issues prompted by questions from people who […]
David Horowitz: Robert Spencer’s ‘”Rating America’s Presidents” is itself a revolutionary act’
“When the dust settles on current political divisions, clear-eyed historians will see the occupant of the White House as an American revolutionary. Donald Trump’s revolution was to unapologetically restore a nation’s pride, resurrect its power, and unleash its engines of prosperity and opportunity. These achievements were made possible because Trump established a new standard for […]