Jon Gabriel

Mesa, Moscow

Editor-in-Chief at Ricochet

Undisputed king of stuff. Greatest living novelist. Writer of scripts. Contributor @Discourse_Mag, @azcentral, @ReturnDotLife, &c. Restorationist. ☦️ IC XC NIKA

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Articles

Fall of Saigon, 50 Years On

4 days ago | theepochtimes.com | Jon Gabriel

CommentaryFifty years ago, on April 30, Americans were glued to their television sets. Flickering screens showed frightened civilians pushing their way up a rickety rooftop stairway, desperately trying to climb aboard one of the last departing helicopters. On April 30, 1975, Saigon fell to the communist armies of North Vietnam, just two years after the Paris Peace Accords and the departure of American forces. The event still polarizes the American public.
Book review of Sink the Rising Sun

1 week ago | readersfavorite.com | Jon Gabriel

Reviewed by P. Rosenthal for Readers' Favorite Sink the Rising Sun by Jon C. Gabriel follows the journey of a twenty-five-year-old inexperienced naval officer named Benjamin Holt. During the chaos and destruction of World War II, he is given command of an aging submarine, newer crewmen, and outdated equipment. Their mission is to disrupt and destroy the supply lines of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Fall of Saigon, 50 Years On

2 weeks ago | fee.org | Jon Gabriel

The disaster of the Vietnam War cast a long shadow. Fifty years ago today, Americans were glued to their television sets. Flickering screens showed frightened civilians pushing their way up a rickety rooftop stairway, desperately trying to climb aboard one of the last departing helicopters. On April 30, 1975, Saigon fell to the communist armies of North Vietnam, just two years after the Paris Peace Accords and the departure of American forces. The event still polarizes the American public.
The Tin Gods Have Failed Us

2 weeks ago | discoursemagazine.com | Jon Gabriel

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “[M]an everywhere appears as a worshiping creature.” This applies not only to the faithful, but to the unbeliever as well. A person who rejects the divine merely redirects his worship to something else: money, politics, ideology, romantic love, knowledge. The list goes on. In a peaceful, prosperous nation, it’s easy to live that way. But what happens when the West’s centuries-long experiment with secularism proves each of these replacement faiths to be tin gods?
Sink the Rising Sun

4 weeks ago | audible.com | Jon Gabriel

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Public Art Should Please the Public

1 month ago | discoursemagazine.com | Jon Gabriel

President Trump signed a flurry of executive orders on Inauguration Day, covering topics as diverse as border security, free speech, climate change, drug laws and architecture. Wait, architecture? It should be no surprise that a real estate developer would be interested in buildings, something Trump telegraphed in the final year of his first term.
Waiting for the Chainsaw

1 month ago | discoursemagazine.com | Jon Gabriel

I come from the Ron Swanson school of government spending. If an official says, “We need to cut expenditures by 32%,” I’ll reply, “Let’s make it an even 40,” before starting a chant of “Slash it! Slash it!”So, imagine my surprise to learn that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is destroying America as we know it. At least that’s what I’ve gathered from the headlines.
Fifty Shades of Freedom

Feb 12, 2025 | discoursemagazine.com | Jon Gabriel

I began writing “The Autodidact” column a year ago to set aside the hot takes on the latest scandal and focus on the deeper issues facing America. Politics, culture, education—they’re all a bit of a mess, and as I’ve been writing this column, I’ve come to believe more than ever that conserving them is woefully inadequate to preserve our liberal order. What the right needs now is to focus not on “conservatism” but on restoration.
The big thaw: US-Canada relations are about to reset

Jan 16, 2025 | capx.co | Jon Gabriel

16 January 2025 @exjon Photo by DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty Images Photo by DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty Images A progressive Canada has diverged from the US both economically and culturally The expected Canadian PM is far more politically aligned with Trump than Trudeau was While Trump shouts 'America first,' Pierre Poilievre responds with 'Canada first' An earlier version of this essay was published in Discourse Magazine. The once-warm relationship between the United States and Canada has cooled in...
The Coming Thaw

Jan 9, 2025 | discoursemagazine.com | Jon Gabriel

The once-warm relationship between the United States and Canada has cooled in the past decade. But despite harsh rhetoric on both sides of the border these days, things are well positioned for a major reset. Indeed, the rightward shift in Washington and the coming move to the right in Ottawa offers a perfect opportunity to strengthen our necessary alliance. After a nine-year tenure, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation following a collapse in support.