July 14, 2026

The American Conservative Morning Briefing · Jul 14, 2026 · 4m

Good morning! Today is Tuesday, July 14th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Jack Hunter offers a sober South Carolinian's reckoning with the late Senator Lindsey Graham, whose three-decade career made him Washington's most tireless advocate for open-ended war, from Iraq to Syria to Iran—and whose invocations of Hiroshima and Iwo Jima reveal a politician strikingly dismissive of human cost. Harrison Berger reports that hawks in Europe and inside America's own national security bureaucracy are steadily pulling President Trump into deeper ownership of the Ukraine war…