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.
| Are the Kids Al(t)right? |
| By: Michael Anton |
| Posted: August 14, 2019 |
| This article appeared in: Volume XIX, Number 3, Summer 2019 |
In the spiritual war for the disaffected youth on the right, conservatism is losing. BAPism is winning. ... |
| Tucker's Right |
| By: Michael Anton |
| Posted: April 30, 2019 |
| This article appeared in: Volume XIX, Number 2, Spring 2019 |
The beginning of a new conservatism? ... |
| Draining the Swamp |
| By: Michael Anton |
| Posted: February 20, 2019 |
| This article appeared in: Volume XIX, Number 1, Winter 2019 |
No one has done more than John Marini to explain the administrative state. ... |
| Thinking Bigly |
| By: Michael Anton |
| Posted: November 6, 2018 |
| This article appeared in: Vol. XVIII, Number 4, Fall 2018 |
Donald Trump and political philosophy. ... |
| National Review’s Latest Defense of Birthright Citizenship |
| By: Michael Anton |
| Posted: September 18, 2018 |
| Birthright citizenship is neither constitutional nor conservative.... |
| Will the Real Authoritarian Please Stand Up? |
| By: Michael Anton |
| Posted: August 1, 2018 |
| This article appeared in: Vol. XVIII, Number 3, Summer 2018 |
Trump versus the democracy experts. ... |
| Social Compact, American Style |
| By: Michael Anton |
| Posted: July 28, 2018 |
| And the debate rages on.... |
| Birthright Citizenship: A Response to My Critics |
| By: Michael Anton |
| Posted: July 22, 2018 |
| It's time to find a reasonable way forward.... |
| Does the U.S. Need More Immigrants? |
| By: Michael Anton |
| Posted: June 22, 2018 |
| Why do we need more people in this country, anyway?... |
| San Francisco Values |
| By: Michael Anton |
| Posted: November 12, 2015 |
| This article appeared in: Volume XV, Number 4, Fall 2015 |
How the Left learned to love the super-rich. ... |
| Woman in Full |
| By: Michael Anton |
| Posted: May 29, 2015 |
| This article appeared in: Vol. XV, Number 2, Spring 2015 |
Wolfe’s four novels are nothing if not entertaining—so much so that even friendly reviewers tend to overlook their underlying seriousness. ... |
| Harry V. Jaffa: An Appreciation |
| By: Michael Anton |
| Posted: March 17, 2015 |
| This article appeared in: Vol. XV, Number 1, Winter 2014/15 |
| I first encountered Harry Jaffa’s name on the dust jacket of Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind. That book was loaned to me by an intellectually sympatico cousin about my age. Unlike me, he knew himself to be a right-winger from the get-go. For me, it took the shock of being ... |
| Harry V. Jaffa, 1918-2015 |
| By: Michael M. Uhlmann, Edward J. Erler, Thomas G. West, Larry P. Arnn, Michael Anton |
| Posted: March 10, 2015 |
| This article appeared in: Vol. XV, Number 1, Winter 2014/15 |
Tributes by Michael M. Uhlmann, Edward J. Erler, Thomas G. West, Larry P. Arnn, and Michael Anton ... |
| Work the Line |
| By: Michael Anton |
| Posted: April 11, 2014 |
| Michael Anton learns to transform the mundane into the sublime, one plate at a time.... |
| Land's End |
| By: Michael Anton |
| Posted: December 4, 2013 |
| This article appeared in: Vol. XIII, Number 4, Fall 2013 |
Machiavelli in Malibu. ... |
| Paradise Lost and Regained |
| By: Michael Anton |
| Posted: June 20, 2012 |
| This article appeared in: Vol. XII, Number 2 - Spring 2012 |
The Beach Boys’ Smile is an American masterpiece. ... |
| Sour Grapes |
| By: Michael Anton |
| Posted: October 4, 2011 |
| This article appeared in: Vol. XI, Number 4 - Fall 2011 |
Napa Valley is California, only more so. ... |
| Worst Case Scenario |
| By: Michael Anton |
| Posted: November 22, 2009 |
| This article appeared in: Vol. IX, Number 4 - Fall 2009 |
A review of Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, by Graham Allison |
| Big Man on Campus |
| By: Michael Anton |
| Posted: September 19, 2005 |
| This article appeared in: Vol. V, Number 3 - Summer 2005 |
A review of I am Charlotte Simmons, by Tom Wolfe... |
| The Men Behind the Mysteries |
| By: Michael Anton |
| Posted: May 20, 2002 |
| This article appeared in: Vol. II, Number 3 - Spring 2002 |
Both Hammett and Chandler wrote mysteries, and mysteries are down-market in the literary world — good for making money, but not for garnering prestige. ... |
| Lone Wolfe |
| By: Michael Anton |
| Posted: February 10, 2001 |
| This article appeared in: Vol. I, Number 2 - Winter 2001 |
Tom Wolfe has been on a lonely crusade for more than a decade. ... |
