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Everyone’s Bastard? From Natural Rights to Nature’s Child in Fulton

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June 24, 2021

It appears the new First Amendment commanding the administrative state gives us a theology, reason, and politics radiating from the new gods that rule our public life.

How Biden Breeds Equity Scams

By Ken Masugi

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June 6, 2021

As his speech on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa massacre makes clear, Joe Biden is far more dangerous than Franklin Roosevelt, who made partisan hatred the basis of the modern Democratic Party.

BLM Über Alles

By Ken Masugi

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May 29, 2021

Will the Democrats surrender their white privilege?

Patriotic Bore: God and Country at Yale

By Ken Masugi

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May 10, 2021

Steven Smith’s endeavor was a failure from its start when it denounced half the country as extremists.

The 1776 Commission Report as Shepherd

By Ken Masugi

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April 15, 2021

Is America a disembodied spirit (that is, a ghost) or a real nation? In carefully considering this question, we are not without resources to guide us, in the 1776 Report.

Trumping Jussie Smollett: Elites Deconstruct the Atlanta Murders

By Ken Masugi

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March 24, 2021

Asians did not always aspire to be passive victims.The Asian elites’ cowardly, opportunistic Atlanta outbursts drive home the similarity of their character to that of wailing North Koreans.

How the Administrative State Kills Us

By Ken Masugi

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March 10, 2021

In Montgomery County, Maryland, people will die whom science and common sense could have saved.

How Contemporary Con Law Became a Con Job

By Ken Masugi

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February 27, 2021

Harvard’s Laurence Tribe turns Clarence Thomas and his recent dissent in the Pennsylvania election case into a cartoon caricature. This is sophistry, not legitimacy.

The Pennsylvania Case Is Not Only About Trump

By Ken Masugi

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February 24, 2021

We are seized by rampages of resentment against each other and against the great achievements of our civilization’s past. Those achievements reprimand us, making us feel petty and small.

Unmasking Religious Freedom by Facing the (Church) Music

By Ken Masugi

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February 7, 2021

Despite its best efforts, leftist jurisprudence of the past 50 years cannot so easily discard the American political tradition of religious freedom.

Joe Biden’s Unity that Crushes, Truth that Lies

By Ken Masugi

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January 22, 2021

By making “unity” his goal and “truth” his defense, he can label his opponents as liars and threats to democracy.

Hoping for Freedom:
Trump’s Farewell Address

By Ken Masugi

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January 20, 2021

In running and likely ruining himself, whether he won or lost, President Trump fulfilled his moral duty to his country while satisfying his ambition.

Trump and the ‘Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions’

By Ken Masugi

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January 12, 2021

Our politicians today have rejected transcendent religion as a guide for our politics and exchanged it for racial identity.

Trump on Martyrdom and Tyranny

By Ken Masugi

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January 8, 2021

Far from being a threat to liberty and freedom of religion, President Trump’s proclamation on St. Thomas Becket teaches Americans how their Western heritage embodies the great struggles of the past.

The Constitutional Politics of Trump’s Impoundment Move

By Ken Masugi

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January 2, 2021

Richard Nixon showed his mettle as the first president to oppose the progressivism behind the destruction of constitutional government. Trump should be lauded for defending constitutional government.

John Eastman, the Man Who Deserved to Win

By Ken Masugi

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December 13, 2020

Denying this meaning of the rule of law and its dependence on fundamental, natural rights turns federalism and the meaning of the Supremacy Clause on their head.

An America First Court?

By Ken Masugi

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November 29, 2020

Will it be the Constitution or COVID? Is justice blind or masked?

The Book on the Key Issue of 2020

By Ken Masugi

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October 29, 2020

Citizenship is the key question of 2020. The founders rejected British common law, which never mentioned citizens, only subjects. Democrats would take us back to that.

Biden Warns Us About His Authoritarianism

By Ken Masugi

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October 29, 2020

The smooth-talking demagogue from Delaware invokes the authoritarian ghost of Democrats past.

Anti-Anti-Discrimination: How the California Elites Harm Minorities

By Ken Masugi

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October 7, 2020

The passage of Proposition 16 threatens to inflame California in an ugly way we thought we had outgrown.