The Backdoor Gun Ban
We need new, independent, domestic end-to-end ammunition plants, and right away.
First Principles
A House Aggrieved Cannot Stand
Our rulers stoke a civil conflict because they want to win it.
Why We Can’t Split the Difference on Culture
Moral disagreement isn’t some perverse feature of modernity. Human societies have always wrestled with different perspectives and come to different conclusions.
‘Our Democracy™’: Oligarchy With Democratic Trappings
We will either reclaim the mantle of republican self-government or bid a sad farewell to the American commonwealth.
Sorry, Not Sorry
The Right should make no apologies for defending free speech—all of it.
Lessons from the Three Wise Men of the East
Matthew’s Gospel teaches there is no purely scientific solution to the human question, one disconnected from Scripture.
An Orthodox Rabbi Writes That People Are Basically Good—Judaism Is in Trouble
The secular leftist idea that people are basically good is not only foolish: It is dangerous.
Woke Catholicism Is Inimical to Western Civilization
Christ provides cleansing through His sacrifice and grace. Wokeism offers only the barrenness of the grave.
American Citizenship: Caught Between Creed and Clan
Fact is, one cannot simply make oneself an American. To some extent or another, through birth or naturalization, one becomes an American because someone else did the work.
The Lights of Hanukkah and Christmas
May the light deliver us from the darkness of pride, arrogance, and hate.
The Gift
In many ways, our giving culture defines America and Americans at their very best.
The War We Must Fight
We may be too weak to fight the anti-woke Communism war in which Tom Klingenstein urges us to enlist. But it’s a war we must prepare ourselves for, as the enemy is ourselves.
Reject John Brown, Embrace Abe Lincoln
Brown’s lawless radicalism is counterproductive to achieving worthy goals. As Lincoln’s prescient warnings demonstrate, the antidote to injustice is not mob violence.
Surmounting the Culture and Politics of Fear
Training in the martial arts strengthens both body and soul, to promote the warrior-scholar ideal.
Sotomayor, the Gospels, and the Tyranny of the COVID Bureaucracy
Our federal government now appears to be suffering from an unparalleled arrogance and corruption of its own, as many of state governments appear unable or unwilling to carry out their duties.
The De-Evolution of an Organization—and Country?
You almost never see a culture of greatness in any level of government—especially long-standing government. Here’s why.
The Folly of Wisdom in an Unwise Age
There is a distinction between conspiratorial thinking and critical thinking. Those alarmed by the prevalence of the former should be no less alarmed by the lack of the latter.
Why the Right Needs a More ‘Muscular’ and ‘Masculine’ Conservatism
True to form, David French spectacularly misses the point of the critique of conservative “fusionism.”
The Royalist Left Purges a Revolutionary: Thomas Jefferson
By aiming to overturn the founders’ victory, today’s leftists are engaged in an authoritarian counter-revolution. They are the new Royalists.
Whom Does Harvard Thank at Thanksgiving?
With its atheist chaplain, Harvard is engaged in killing the culture—the culture that midwifed to us this civilization, including Harvard.