Josh Hammer | The Epoch Times

Josh Hammer

Josh Hammer, a constitutional attorney by training, is an opinion editor for Newsweek, a podcast contributor with BlazeTV, of counsel at First Liberty Institute, and a syndicated columnist.

The Limits of ‘Free Speech’

Commentary When embattled freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) took to the U.S. House floor Thursday morning in ...

Viewpoints February 7, 2021
American Elites Seek to Rig the Game

Commentary In the aftermath of the disgraceful Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, the American ruling class ...

Viewpoints January 31, 2021
Trump’s Parting Shot to China Should Be Full US Recognition of Taiwan

Commentary President Donald Trump’s two greatest foreign policy accomplishments both involve departures from outmoded paradigms that had, for ...

Viewpoints January 15, 2021
There’s No Stopping America’s Political Realignment

Commentary With a month in the rearview mirror since November’s presidential election, we now have sufficient perspective to ...

Viewpoints December 4, 2020
Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Is Idiotic and Immoral

Commentary Higher education might be the most pressing domestic issue confronting America today. As currently structured and carried ...

Viewpoints November 20, 2020
The Election Battle Is Just Beginning

Commentary As of this writing, the presidential race has not been called for either President Donald Trump or ...

Viewpoints November 6, 2020
The Closing Argument for the American Regime

Commentary A remarkable percentage of Americans have already voted early in this critical election, pitting against each other ...

Viewpoints October 30, 2020
How to Prepare for a Contested Election

Commentary The 2020 presidential election, pitting against each other two diametrically opposed visions of the American regime and ...

Viewpoints October 23, 2020
Will Conservatives Finally Awaken to the Big Tech Threat?

Commentary As the American right continues to sort through its identity crisis, four years after the earth-shattering election ...

Viewpoints October 16, 2020
Biden-Harris Would Deal a Huge Blow to Religious Liberty

Commentary Toward the end of Vice President Mike Pence’s resounding defeat of Sen. Kamala Harris in Wednesday night’s ...

Viewpoints October 9, 2020
The Do-or-Die Moment for the Trump Presidency

Commentary Tuesday night’s first presidential debate was not, to borrow the apt phrasing of Senate Majority Leader Mitch ...

Viewpoints October 2, 2020
Republicans, Confirm a Supreme Court Justice Immediately

Commentary Political hell broke loose when America learned, just as the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah was about ...

Viewpoints September 25, 2020
Where Does Never Trump Now Stand?

Commentary At this time four years ago, the “Never Trump” movement was alive and well. Birthed in earnest ...

Viewpoints September 18, 2020
Where Is Joe Biden’s Supreme Court List?

Commentary On Sept. 9, President Donald Trump unveiled his much-anticipated new Supreme Court nominee “list.” A whopping 20 ...

Viewpoints September 11, 2020
The Democrats Hold the Nation Hostage

Commentary As America’s cities literally burn to ashes and violent crime spikes to its highest level in decades, ...

Viewpoints September 4, 2020
How to Think About Conservatism Post-Trump

Commentary With this week’s Republican National Convention and the formal coronation of Donald Trump as the party’s 2020 ...

Viewpoints August 28, 2020
Trump and Netanyahu Debunk the Failed Consensus

Commentary With one stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—nationalist, conservative world ...

Viewpoints August 21, 2020
Kamala Harris Veep Pick Clarifies the Stakes This November

Commentary Joe Biden’s selection this week of Sen. Kamala Harris as his vice presidential running mate clarifies the ...

Viewpoints August 14, 2020
Institutional Wokeness Is Destroying American Higher Education

Commentary The English department at Rutgers University, the eighth-oldest university in America, recently went woke. In an email ...

Viewpoints August 7, 2020