Friday, September 18, 2026Fri, Sep 18, 2026 Independent and reader supported. Donate NewsletterXTelegramRSS
AF Post

News and alerts from around the world from an America First perspective

Contributor

Phillip Lede

13 articles · x.com/PhillipLede

US Politics

JD Vance’s Iran Dilemma

JD Vance is caught between Iraq and a hard place.

Phillip Lede Opinion
US Politics

No Trump Beneath the Skin

Dispelling the myth of the noumenal Trump.

Phillip Lede Opinion
World Politics

A Note on the Reasons We Pillage

Reclaiming intervention from neoconservative connotations.

Barry H., Phillip Lede Opinion
General

Still Waiting For Mass Deportations: A Hard Look at Trump’s Illegal Immigration Record

Trump’s promised mass deportations have failed to materialize thus far.

Phillip Lede Opinion
General

The Cost of Economic Sovereignty

Trump’s tariffs are a necessary correction to decades of economic dependence and the erosion of American industry.

Phillip Lede Opinion
Christianity

Revisiting Ordo Amoris

A defense of Ordo Amoris in light of recent misinterpretation.

Phillip Lede Opinion
Christianity

Beyond the Shadow of Hitler

The West can only escape its supernatural hatred of Hitler in the Cross.

Phillip Lede Opinion
General

How Donald Trump Has Unconcealed Politics

Trump has revealed politics not as an ideological struggle, but as an existential one.

Phillip Lede Opinion
General

Merit First, America Last: What to Make of the Death of DEI

As dozens of household-name brands drop diversity programs in the wake of Trump’s win, Republicans have eagerly hailed the return of a pre-progressive era to reverse years of “Woke” identitarianism.

Phillip Lede Opinion
US Politics

Why One Cannot Be a Dual Nationalist

The falsehood of dual nationalism, the divide in the American right, and the Iran policy test.

JD Hester, Phillip Lede Opinion
General

Vivek Ramaswamy and Negative Identity: Why Civic Nationalism Doesn't Suffice

Vivek Ramaswamy rightly diagnoses America’s loss of national identity as the cause of its decline, yet he wrongly characterizes it by civic commitments.

Phillip Lede Opinion
Culture

4B Movement: Liberal Women Close Their Legs to Protest Trump’s Win

Following Kamala’s humiliating defeat to Donald Trump and sweeping Republican victories in both the House and Senate, liberal women have rushed to social media to voice their outrage.

Phillip Lede Opinion
Christianity

Abortion and the Female Cult of Self

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade two years ago, public support for abortion has only increased, both among Republicans and Democrats.

Phillip Lede Opinion