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Unbridled Presidential Power and Executive Actions

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February 22, 2022

With COVID-19 finally drawing its last breaths, now is the time to rein in the executive branch, before it establishes further precedent for power accumulation by future administrations.

Rising Crime, Self-Protection, and Finding Honest Martial Instruction

By Jack Kerwick

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February 19, 2022

Americans who are willing to assume responsibility for their own protection by pursuing the study of a genuinely martial art should take care to seek out a proper instructor.

Justin Trudeau and the Alchemy of Irony

By Roger Kimball

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February 19, 2022

Canada’s prime minister won a skirmish but lost his credibility, which means that he has also lost legitimacy and will lose the war.

The Death of Muscular American Social Life

By Anthony Esolen

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February 17, 2022

Will we be left with the worst of all worlds: moralism without morality, socialism without sociality, children without childhood, and humor without humor?

Prodigal Church, Prodigal Nation

By Albin Sadar

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February 17, 2022

The Christian church in America “must come to its senses” before we can expect the nation itself to return to be the light of liberty.

Five Rings or Fifth Columnists

By Christopher Roach

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February 13, 2022

When Olympic athletes can pick and choose country affiliations it undermines the nation’s political principles and reveals a more consequential disloyalty.

Scientism, Catholicism, and the God that Failed

By Brian Robertson

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February 13, 2022

With trust in once-respected institutions—including the Church—waning and social mores in flux, scientism fills the natural human need for some authoritative source of truth.

Why Ideology Is the Ancient Enemy of Civilization

By Victor Davis Hanson

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February 10, 2022

In such ideological dystopias, eventually even the shelves empty, the currency becomes worthless, and the nation regresses into poverty and chaos. Is that the future we await?

When It Comes to Marxism, Bad Ideas Don’t Get Better with Age

By Tom Ferguson

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February 8, 2022

It is time for the God and country loving, flag-waving, baseball playing, hot dog and apple pie eating, and Chevrolet driving crowd to get off their blessed assurance and get a little more involved.

Who Died and Made You Boss?

By Albin Sadar

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February 2, 2022

Many churches across America are saying, in effect, “God and what He says in the Bible isn’t the Ultimate Authority. It's the whims of current culture that reign supreme.

This Is No Time for Groveling

By Deion A. Kathawa

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February 2, 2022

Ilya Shapiro apologized for his “poor choice of words” in a series of tweets about Joe Biden’s potential Supreme Court pick. Here’s what he should have said instead.

The Backdoor Gun Ban

By Dan Gelernter

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February 1, 2022

We need new, independent, domestic end-to-end ammunition plants, and right away.

A House Aggrieved Cannot Stand

By Adam Ellwanger

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January 30, 2022

Our rulers stoke a civil conflict because they want to win it.

Why We Can’t Split the Difference on Culture

By Kevin D. Vallier

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January 29, 2022

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

By Mackubin Owens

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January 23, 2022

We will either reclaim the mantle of republican self-government or bid a sad farewell to the American commonwealth.

Sorry, Not Sorry

By Ray McCoy

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January 20, 2022

The Right should make no apologies for defending free speech—all of it.

Lessons from the Three Wise Men of the East

By Ken Masugi

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January 15, 2022

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

By Dennis Prager

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January 13, 2022

The secular leftist idea that people are basically good is not only foolish: It is dangerous.

Woke Catholicism Is Inimical to Western Civilization

By A.J. Rice

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January 8, 2022

Christ provides cleansing through His sacrifice and grace. Wokeism offers only the barrenness of the grave.

American Citizenship: Caught Between Creed and Clan

By Geoffrey M. Vaughan

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December 26, 2021

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.