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Why You Have a Constitutional Right to a High Capacity Magazine

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July 2, 2020

Even as the very scenario that demonstrates the need for high-capacity magazines unfolded in St. Louis, the Colorado Supreme Court endorsed the view that you don’t need one.

‘Through All the Gloom, I Can See the Rays of Ravishing Light and Glory’

By John Adams

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July 1, 2020

Why this American Founder believed July 2, 1776, would be “the most memorable epocha in the history of America.”

Grim Lessons from Aristotle on the Causes of Civil War

By Steven Skultety

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June 26, 2020

Why aren’t we challenging our cozy assumptions that things can’t get worse?

Fathers and Sons, American-Style

By C. Bradley Thompson

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June 20, 2020

This is why men can’t talk about their fathers. Our reverence cuts too close to the very core of who we are as men.

Tales of Endurance and Enduring Tales from My Father

By Jennifer Polk

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June 20, 2020

If there is hope to be found, a significant portion of that hope must lie with America’s fathers. Fathers like those who taught their sons and daughters to carry on.

Language, Freedom, And Law

By Angelo Codevilla

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June 19, 2020

In Bostock, the Supreme Court has taken the fateful step to assert that a common word, vital to social relations, can mean whatever anyone wants it to mean.

John Roberts and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamer Robe

By Lloyd Billingsley

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June 18, 2020

Intelligence invests in illusion when the need for illusion is deep.

Kangaroo Nation

By Anthony Esolen

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June 17, 2020

We ruin reputations, we tear down monuments to our flawed benefactors, we destroy lives with a glee and a certitude that would make the old inquisitors blush.

Property Rights Matter Even More Than Lives

By Ned Ryun

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June 13, 2020

Everything unique to an individual, whether physical things or rights of conscience or data, belong to the individual. A government created out of the consent of the governed that fails to protect these rights is an unjust government.

The Left Fears Law-Abiding Gun Owners More Than Rioters

By Paul Bradford

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June 4, 2020

Leftists fear an empowered citizenry that can do things without the pre-approval of liberal bureaucrats.

Virtue Signaling Theater at the Mouth of Hell

By Anthony Esolen

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May 30, 2020

The hypocrite is not the person who says one thing and does another. He is the play-actor, the man or woman who puts on a show of righteousness, to fool himself first of all, because he is his own favorite audience.

The “1619 Project” Learns from Mussolini

By Carol Iannone

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May 28, 2020

The “1619 Project” is a genuine and instructive exercise in “fascist attitudes and activity” as described by Mussolini.

Americans Deserve Open Debate About Big Tech and Free Speech

By Rachel Bovard

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May 28, 2020

The tech industry and its advocates may not think this debate should happen, but lawmakers certainly do.

The Pandemic Showcases Courts’ Limitations

By Deion A. Kathawa

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May 22, 2020

Why won’t Michigan’s legislature—the political branch that most represents Michiganders—embrace its role in the state’s constitutional system?

Yea, Though I Walk Through The Uncanny Valley

By Ignatius Amadeus

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May 18, 2020

You are being gaslit, but not by a sociopathic manipulator. Instead, the growing psychic pressure is the constricting consensus of an increasingly popular fabricated reality. You are on the business end of a casual conspiracy of complicity.

The Restart of History and the Renaissance of Realpolitik

By David Kamioner

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May 15, 2020

States and their interests, both cultural and historical, to recall Charles de Gaulle, are eternal. They do not, and will never, take a backseat to ideology of any sort. Including our own.

Coronavirus Is an Opportunity to Reject Judicial Supremacy

By Deion A. Kathawa

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May 14, 2020

The litigious Michigan legislature has endorsed the idea that the courts alone can save Michiganders from Governor Whitmer’s grip. This is a lie.

Is Half of the Country Crazy?

By John Conlin

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May 13, 2020

When the only seemingly possible solution is using the power of the government to crush those who disagree, it is time to rethink the entire paradigm.

The Perils of Philosophy

By Robert Curry

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May 12, 2020

Self-evident truths are the foundation of common sense realism; for Thomas Reid, common sense is the human faculty which enables us to grasp self-evident truths.

The Indispensable American Family

By Anthony Esolen

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May 12, 2020

Someone may say we ought to live in open sewers, because filth and disease are subversive; or that we ought to cut ourselves with razors, because razors are edgy. What response can you give to him? He has placed himself outside of moral reasoning entirely.