American Thinker Takeaways, February 10, 2026
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Today’s topics are the real reason the NFL went with Bad Bunny, some thoughts about American football versus soccer, watching Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, and knitting and the magic of AI.
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American Thinker Takeaways, February 8, 2026
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Today’s topics are (once again) our grossly dishonest media, the story of Obama’s “fixer” and Jeffrey Epstein, the tragedy of blacks failing in Marin County’s school district (and one local media’s effort to hide that), Europe’s continued downfall as it bows before Islam, and the Ivy League college scam.
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American Thinker Takeaways, February 5, 2026
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Today’s topics are Trump’s brilliance in negotiating a trade deal with India, the reality of the hijab (and it shouldn’t be celebrated), the bizarre priorities of Senate Republicans when it comes to the SAVE Act, and understanding leftist Jews.
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American Thinker Takeaways, February 3, 2026
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Today’s topics are (1) more examples of the “de-Judaization” of the Holocaust and the total inversion as a vehicle to attack Jews, and (2) the weird thing about Michelle Obama’s answer when she was asked whether she’d urge Obama to run again if Trump goes for a third term.
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American Thinker Takeaways, February 1, 2026
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Today’s topics are the terrible consequences of electing communists, the leftist view of religious rights, the dangerous drift toward “de-Judaizing” the Holocaust, and pure schadenfreude when looking at leftist expectations about “Melania,” the movie.
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American Thinker Takeaways, January 15, 2026
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Today’s topics are one doctor’s testimony in the Senate reveals how ideologically corrupt medical education has become, an essay by Ireland’s former president reveals more than she realizes when she rants against infant baptism, Scott Adams’s death highlights (again) how utterly corrupt the media are (but change can happen), and the necessity for Trump to act in Iran.
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American Thinker Takeaways, December 19, 2025
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Today, there’s only one topic: Singapore. I spent 12 days there and have opinions (plus, if you’re watching the video, photographs).
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American Thinker Takeaways, November 17, 2025
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Today’s topics are tariffs, and why Trump’s tariffs are good, not bad; the divisions (perhaps good ones) that come from our siloed media world; and the reason that medical costs are so high and—sorry—will never go down.
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American Thinker Takeaways November 12, 2025
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Today’s topics are why the shutdown’s end was inevitable, why New York City doesn’t matter anymore, the problem of rogue judges, a (good) cultural shift and the evidence supporting it, a bad shift in South Korea, the Palestinian “fatocide” (and why, inevitably, the absence of starvation genocide is the Jews’ fault), and whether God serves man or man serves God.
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American Thinker Takeaways, November 2, 2025: Charles Murray interview
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This is a special edition of the American Thinker Takeaways podcast. I had the opportunity to interview Professor Charles Murray about his new book, , about his intellectual journey to faith.
info_outlineThough slavery was awful, for today's American blacks what would have been even worse was an absence of the slavery that brought them to these shores.
My co-blogger, Wolf Howling, has already written two excellent posts savaging the shoddy scholarship and evil motives behind the New York Times' 1619 Project. He's right, of course, but that hasn't stopped the project from benefiting from the fact that the Times, while it no longer even makes a pretense of reporting news (instead it works as a Democrat propaganda arm), still has a disproportionate reach into American minds. For example, at Twitter, Stu Cvrk does a quick rundown of the Times' decades'-long control over American newsrooms, a power it still holds today -- as can be seen from the fact that USA Today has already published its own echo of the 1619 project.
Even the meanest intellect can understand the message that the Times' and its fellow travelers are pushing: Americans cannot hide behind the Constitution to claim that they are a society founded on a great and colorblind idea (albeit one that was imperfectly implemented for a long time). Instead, from the moment Europeans set foot on America's shores, they brought with them an evil so great that America is irredeemably corrupt. And of course, the proggies know the only way to purge that corruption: America must be destroyed and rebuilt in a socialist mold. ***
Read the full companion post, complete with all hyperlinks, here.