The ‘New Normal’ and the Assault on Reason
Can this assault on reason and nature last?
Squinting at Leo Strauss: Impartiality and the Art of Writing
A response to some reviews of The Soul of Politics: Harry V. Jaffa and the Fight for America .
The Overbearing Conceit of the Oligarchs
The ugliness and malice of the oligarchy’s propaganda may be overreaching, thus making it easier for us deplorables to imitate Solzhenitsyn’s courage.
Political Rights Demand Respect for Private Choices
The personal choices of free men and women, and the official actions of the government, are in David Tucker’s imagination one and the same.
Bullets, Ballots, and Books
What Harry Jaffa teaches is neither easy nor comforting. Rather than offer his students and readers idle chatter or shallow patriotism, he sought to reveal how natural right remains a living force.
We Must All Hang Together
Some lessons from history and philosophy can help us think about our present crisis.
A Lordship for Me, But Not for Thee
Exposing the fallacies of our erstwhile aristocrats.
The Faux Conservative Cope Exposed
Fixating on the Trumpist Right is a coping mechanism for those who want to conserve whatever version of America is trendy now.
‘Let It Run’
The Declaration of Independence says revolutionary change should not be undertaken for “light and transient causes.” We are well past that now.
H.R. 1 Is the Pillow Over the Face of Federalism
The constitutional power of the states wheezes along, alive in name only, a century after the 17th Amendment. H.R. 1, to a large degree, is just a means to euthanize a terminally ill patient.
A Grave New World?
How can we have a country together when we can’t even have a conversation?
Too Much of a Unity
Are we two peoples and two regimes occupying the same country?
‘I Banish You!’
What William Shakespeare can teach us about the Trump impeachment trial.
In Defense of ‘Whataboutism’
We can’t afford to declare that ordinary ways of thinking and arguing are simply out of order.
Is Our Fate Really Out of Our Hands?
Popular opinion—like politics in general—is changeable, and can change again in sudden and unexpected ways.
For the Sake of the Constitution, and the Country, Fill Ginsburg’s Seat Quickly
Many Americans would feel relieved to have the question settled so that they can focus on what they are supposed to be deciding: whether President Trump or Joe Biden will make a better president.
‘That We Here Highly Resolve . . . ’
Part memoir and part history, U.S. Senator Tom Cotton’s Sacred Duty recounts in vivid detail the stories of the men and women who make up […]
Understanding Google’s Military Mindset
Google tried to censor the Claremont Institute last week. The tech giant backed off under pressure, but the tactical maneuver was hardly a failure. To […]
Soul, Man
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The Indispensable Guide to the Matrix
You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter […]