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On Guns, the Right Will Win Because It Has the Courage of Its Convictions

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May 26, 2022

The Right’s take on the Second Amendment should be contrasted with the usual positions of conservatives, particularly on issues implicating sexual morality, immigration, and race relations.

Time for a New Declaration of Independence?

By Dan Gelernter

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May 24, 2022

Will we continue to endure this long train of abuses? It seems likely.

Banning Abortion Is the Only Reasonable Moral Choice

By Sean Ross Callaghan

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May 20, 2022

Even supposing that an unborn child is not a person right now, it almost certainly will be one soon. That future must weigh in the moral balance.

A Unifying Pro-Life Flag

By James Chapman

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May 19, 2022

The pro-life flag is exactly what the movement needs to showcase Americans’ support for the pro-life position as the abortion debate rages on.

Trans People and the Politics of Propriety

By Adam Ellwanger

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May 18, 2022

The Left is weaponizing propriety to dissolve resistance to their demolition of the existing order.

How the Dobbs Leak Undermines Justice

By Michael Warren

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May 16, 2022

Regardless of anyone’s particular feelings on the merits of the Dobbs draft, its premature release is a grave threat to our republic and must never happen again.

The Truth of the Heart

By Thaddeus G. McCotter

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May 7, 2022

The extremism of the abortion ideologues is archaic and barbaric.

Friends, Enemies, and Prudent Alliances

By Glenn Ellmers

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May 4, 2022

If your principles are standing in the way of pursuing justice and engaging in effective political action, Aristotle would suggest you are probably doing something wrong

What the Left Hates Most

By Albin Sadar

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May 4, 2022

It should be obvious to all of us by now, if we want to “save democracy,” we need more free speech to uncover the truth, not less.

The Age of the Absurd

By Dennis Prager

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May 3, 2022

In terms of the absurdities our cultural elites believe, and have convinced masses of people to believe, there has never been a time like today.

Civic Education Requires Liberal Education

By John Agresto

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April 23, 2022

Do we really need Jefferson and Witherspoon to help us understand our world today? Yes, because what we know and what we believe shape our individual lives and our civic lives.

Why Are Women Unhappy?

By Dan Gelernter

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April 19, 2022

Happier homes might make us happier people.

The Never-Ending Lent

By Elizabeth Fortunato

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April 16, 2022

When families are estranged, Lent never ends.

Self-Protection and the Problem of Fetishizing ‘Techniques’

By Jack Kerwick

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April 15, 2022

Mastery begins not with a tool, but with the self.

The Functionalist Manifesto: Know Thyself at the Species Level

By Guy Shepherd

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April 15, 2022

Teamwork, friendship, and loyalty are functional requirements of being a man.

The Remorseless Tide of Reality

By Thaddeus G. McCotter

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April 15, 2022

Ideology, unlike philosophy, seeks to remake human nature.

The Dystopian Future Where Women—and Men—Just Don’t Want Children

By Sarah Weaver

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April 12, 2022

Perhaps it’s time women and men gave the good, old-fashioned nuclear family unit a try.

Judge Jackson’s Brown Out and Justice Thomas’ Transfiguration

By Ken Masugi

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April 10, 2022

The difference between the two judges is the difference between nihilism and natural law.

Clausewitz, Russia, and Ukraine

By Mackubin Owens

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April 5, 2022

The Russians may have learned again what history teaches: that those who plan to win a short war often end up losing a long one.

What Brings You More Joy: Your Child Getting into a Prestigious College or Getting Married?

By Dennis Prager

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April 5, 2022

Tell your children that as happy and proud as you will be on the day they graduate college, you will be even happier and more proud of them on the day they marry. For most people, that is a fact.