Michael Lucchese

3 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Michael Lucchese

After nearly two years of Houthi strikes on Western shipping, President Donald Trump suddenly announced a ceasefire in May with the Houthi terrorists occupying parts of Yemen. But this agreement has not stopped the rebel group from attacking American interests. Even after it was announced, the Houthis continued to target our regional allies, including shooting missiles at civilian targets in Israel. American operations may have ended, but the war has not.

3 weeks ago | gazette.com | Michael Lucchese

After nearly two years of Houthi strikes on Western shipping, President Donald Trump suddenly announced a ceasefire in May with the Houthi terrorists occupying parts of Yemen. But this agreement has not stopped the rebel group from attacking American interests. Even after it was announced, the Houthis continued to target our regional allies, including shooting missiles at civilian targets in Israel. American operations may have ended, but the war has not.

1 month ago | lawliberty.org | Michael Lucchese

Protectionism seems to have become the dominant economic ideology of Washington, DC. Although politicians may squabble about particular tariffs, the leading figures of both parties have rejected free trade for neo-mercantilist policies aimed at, they claim, reigniting American industry. But as countless economists have shown, the utopian vision of autarky that most strident protectionists advocate has no basis in reality.

2 months ago | mereorthodoxy.com | Michael Lucchese

In recent years, American conservatives seem obsessed with lamentation. Intellectual magazines and other outposts of conservative intellectualism have promoted several narratives of national decline which lift up a mythic American past to contrast with a supposedly dreary American present. But scratching beneath the surface, there is nothing particularly innovative about concerns for American deracination such as those expressed by Notre Dame political theorist Patrick Deneen.

2 months ago | rlo.acton.org | Michael Lucchese

Today marks the 160th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s death. Almost immediately after the terrible event of his assassination, the martyred president was elevated to the heights of American civil religion. Despite their earlier opposition to the conduct of the war, Radical Republicans sought to appropriate his legacy to justify their extreme plans for Reconstruction. They wanted to draft him as a kind of secular saint to symbolize their revolutionary cause.