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True Federalism Honors the States’ Civil Court Systems

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May 26, 2021

Johnson & Johnson wants the Supreme Court to overturn a perfectly legitimate state court verdict. It's nothing short of an attack on our nation’s constitutionally protected principles of federalism.

Individualism and the Protection of Innocents

By Jack Kerwick

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May 26, 2021

The decent must transform their psyches and focus their wills if they are to become the dangerous folks that they need to become to neutralize the indecent and dangerous.

Socialists Are Children

By Dan Gelernter

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May 25, 2021

Caring about the whole world is a fancy way of caring only about oneself.

The Middle East Dispute Is About Religion, Not Land

By Dennis Prager

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May 25, 2021

The reason for decades of Palestinian-Arab rejections of a state of their own is that it would mean a Jewish state in the Middle East would still exist.

A Hard But Simple Way to Detoxify American Politics

By Deion A. Kathawa

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May 24, 2021

Unless Americans can learn to give up our resentments, we will continue to indulge our compulsive, addictive rage, which eventually will destroy us.

A Forgotten Piety

By Anthony Esolen

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May 23, 2021

We should honor our forebears for what they bequeathed to us, and squirm a little, because we would be hard put to say what we are leaving for our children, supposing that we have any.

Theocratic Wishful Thinking

By Paul Gottfried

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May 22, 2021

It's difficult to see how the Middle Ages produced a better political regime than the supposedly defective work of the American founders.

The Right of Revolution in the American Founding

By Kevin Portteus

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May 21, 2021

Americans grounded their revolution in the eternal principles of natural law and natural right, and in so doing provided a roadmap for all who would reclaim the liberty that God has granted them.

Limitations of the Hatred Coalition

By Paul Gottfried

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May 15, 2021

The current administration represents both the woke Left and partisan Democratic interests. But what will happen if the present leftist coalition comes apart?

The Way of Socialism

By Roger Kimball

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May 15, 2021

An absolute commitment to benevolence, like the road that is paved with good intentions, typically leads to an unprofitable destination.

What the Lubbock Sanctuary for the Unborn Shows Us

By James Anthony

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May 11, 2021

Where voters support the Constitution’s guarantee of a right to life, what’s needed are legislators, executives, judges, jurors, and jailers who support it, too.

The Response to COVID-19 Shows Why Free Speech Is Essential

By Auguste Meyrat

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May 9, 2021

Overall, it is fair to say that limitations on free speech have left the country dumber, sicker, less free, less happy, and hopelessly divided.

Is Tyranny the Inevitable Consequence of Liberalism?

By Robert Curry

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May 9, 2021

Sohrab Ahmari’s thesis that liberalism inevitably leads to tyranny only works if classical liberalism and what he calls “progressive liberalism” are fundamentally the same.

No, Paleoconservatives Are Not Helping the Left

By Paul Gottfried

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May 8, 2021

Why does Michael Anton believe Brion McClanahan or anyone else writing for Chronicles is helping the Left by rejecting the positions of the 1776 Commission?

What Are the Paleoconservatives Conserving?

By Michael Anton

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May 8, 2021

It’s hard for a movement to claim to stand for tradition when it attacks so much of the tradition it purports to defend.

The False Dichotomy: Communism vs. Capitalism

By Charles J. Urlacher

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May 7, 2021

Are the international capitalists who controlled the United States in the 1980s and 2000s Lenin’s new useful idiots?

The Politics of Home

By Bruce Oliver Newsome

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May 4, 2021

By clarifying who is conserving places, we clarify which side has the whole community at heart.

Has America Changed its Mind?

By Robert Curry

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May 3, 2021

Progressivism’s victories are so pervasive and so extensive that Progressivism’s changes are barely recognized.

Granting Value to the World

By Roger Kimball

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May 1, 2021

By making happiness incompatible with man’s essence, Schopenhauer found himself deaf to Goethe’s wisdom: “If you want to delight in life, then you must grant value to the world.”

Conserving Conservatism Is Conserving Defeat

By Pedro Gonzalez

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April 27, 2021

To be conservative in America today is to preserve an order that has lost its legitimacy, and the right thing is not to conserve but destroy it and institute something else.