Conservatism
June 20, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Conservatives often wonder why states that have Republican legislative majorities don’t necessarily produce conservative legislation. In Part 1 of this series, I looked at Texas through the eyes of a conservative activist there, who explained how Republican majorities gutted what was once a strong anti-DEI bill. Now we turn our attention to North Dakota. Is is possible to be redder than North Dakota? As my colleague Bill Walsh notes, that
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June 13, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Some red states are leaders in public policy, consistently enacting conservative measures that drive their economies forward. But in some red states, conservatives are frustrated that large Republican majorities don’t necessarily produce solid conservative legislation. One of those states is Texas. Republicans control the Texas House of Representatives 85-64 and the Senate 19-12. Texas has a Republican governor, Greg Abbott. And yet, despite those numbers and the state’s conservative image,
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June 8, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Dennis Prager is cruising in Southeast Europe, so I will host the Dennis Prager radio show tomorrow from 12 to 3 p.m. Eastern, on the Salem network. If you don’t have a station near you, you can listen live here. It should be a fun show. My guests will include Josh Holmes, host of the Ruthless podcast; Jon Lauck, author of The Good Country; Andrew McCarthy, who will talk inter
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June 3, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Since retiring from the practice of law at the end of 2015, I have devoted my life to trying to save the state of Minnesota. Of course, as I often say, I am not just fighting for Minnesota: I am fighting for America. You can give up on Minnesota, and many have. But you can’t give up on America; if we lose our country, there is nowhere left to run.
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May 17, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Well, that might be a slight overstatement. But I guest hosted Dennis Prager’s radio show last Friday, and it was a darn good show if I do say so myself. In the first hour I talked about the implications of the ongoing sorting of America into Red states and Blue states, and about the Left’s effort to build up my own state of Minnesota as a paragon of liberal governance.
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May 11, 2023 — John Hinderaker
I will host the Dennis Prager radio show tomorrow from 12 to 3 p.m. Eastern, on the Salem network. If you don’t have a station near you, I think you can listen live here. The occasion is that Dennis is the keynote speaker at tomorrow night’s American Experiment Annual Dinner. So while Dennis is jetting to Minnesota, I will pinch hit on the radio. Along with the news of the
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April 29, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Tucker Carlson was the keynote speaker at Center of the American Experiment’s Annual Dinner in 2018. It was a great event, attended by 1,200 conservatives. I rummaged around in a drawer and found the video of Tucker’s speech; it is embedded below. What is striking, watching it now, is how fully developed Carlson’s populist themes were five years ago. The same thing emerged in the interview I did with him
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April 26, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The Daily Mail–who else?–tracked down Tucker Carlson near his Florida home and interviewed him. Or rather, chatted with him. Tucker was in fine spirits: Tucker Carlson looks like a man without a care in the world. The TV firebrand shrugged off the media storm and insisted he was more interested in enjoying a romantic date with his wife Susan as he broke his silence in an exclusive chat with DailyMail.com.
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April 25, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Huge news these days in the media world, with Tucker Carlson, the most popular figure in the history of cable news, I believe, out at Fox, and Don Lemon–a marginal personality whom I have never seen in action–fired by CNN. But that is not all: Disney has also fired Nate Silver from the 538 franchise that Silver founded years ago. Nate Silver Out at 538, ABC News as Disney Layoffs
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April 24, 2023 — John Hinderaker
I am not a great person to write about Tucker Carlson’s contributions to the conservative movement, since I almost never watch television. I have seen clips of Carlson’s Fox News show on the internet, but have only watched it live a time or two. But I did spend some time with Tucker a few years ago, and was deeply impressed. He was the keynote speaker at American Experiment’s Annual Dinner
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April 15, 2023 — John Hinderaker
No one considers Minnesota to be a leader in anything good these days, but there are a few exceptions. For one thing, our state perhaps sets the standard for collaboration among conservative organizations. Rather than jealously guarding turf, we constantly work together to promote conservative ideas and fight back against leftism. What follows is a good example. Alpha News is Minnesota’s alternative news source. It relentlessly covers the stories that
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April 5, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Yesterday American Experiment hosted a Freedom Rally in the rotunda of Minnesota’s capitol in St. Paul. I previewed the rally here. We drew a big, enthusiastic crowd and all eight speakers performed well. I got to emcee the event and lead chants, etc. Which is a lot of fun. Our theme was “Stop the Madness.” This eight-minute video covers some of the event’s highlights: This is the full video of
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April 2, 2023 — John Hinderaker
In Minnesota, this year’s legislative session has seen a blitzkrieg of radical left-wing legislation. So on Tuesday, at 11 a.m. in the rotunda of the state Capitol in St. Paul, American Experiment is hosting a Freedom Rally to protest against the legislation passed so far, and pressure our legislature to moderate its actions in the session’s second half–when, among other things, a budget will be adopted. The rally’s mantra is
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March 27, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I must lead a sheltered life not to have heard of Eva Vlaardingerbroek. I only learned of Ms. V. this morning from reading Taki Theodoracopulos’s enticingly headlined Spectator column “My lunch with a Dutch blonde bombshell.” It is published in the March 25 number of the Spectator’s UK magazine under the somewhat blander headline “The lost art of lunching.” Having met Ms. V. for lunch, Taki reports that he immediately
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March 10, 2023 — Elizabeth Stauffer
My ears always perk up when I hear about a lifelong liberal suddenly experiencing a profound change in their political beliefs. Like many of us, liberal author Dr. Naomi Wolf, a one-time advisor to former President Bill Clinton, watched Tucker Carlson’s presentation of excerpts of previously unseen surveillance footage from Jan. 6, 2021 on Monday night. To say she was moved by what she saw is an understatement. What followed
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March 1, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Marjorie Taylor Greene made headlines by suggesting that it may be time for a “national divorce,” with red states and blue states going their separate ways. She was roundly denounced in nearly all quarters, as though she had called for a civil war. But in fact, her point was the same one I have made more than once: disunion is a real possibility, and the alternative to disunion is a
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February 27, 2023 — John Hinderaker
We are fans of Italy’s new, populist Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Now it appears that a similar figure is rising in Spain: Madrid’s President, Isabel Díaz Ayuso: Fresh from freeing Madrid from lockdown, Isabel Díaz Ayuso is waging a war on woke and seeking to turn Madrid into the “Florida of Europe” in a campaign that could ultimately lead to her becoming Spain’s first female prime minister. The “Florida of
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