Source: Law & Liberty
by Miles Smith IV
“In the past decade, the political (and to a lesser extent the intellectual) right in the United States has been possessed by ideas of greatness and golden ages. MAGA pithily encapsulates the idea that there was an era of American greatness in the misty past that is somehow remembered by still-living Americans. Kevin Roberts, the current head of the Heritage Foundation, believes that Americans in 2025 are ‘witnessing the dawn of a golden age. Not because of one man — though he has been a battering ram through the fortress of the ruling class. But because of what this moment now makes possible: a return not just to strength or prosperity or sovereignty — but to the permanent things.’ Roberts appeals to Russell Kirk to back up his sense of an emerging golden era for the American republic.” (02/03/26)