The Treason of the Intellectuals & ‘the Undoing of Thought’
Benda's call for faith in transcendent truth remains a beacon amid the turmoil of contemporary cultural debates.
Weekend Long Read
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Come often, tell your friends and enjoy your stay!
If We See the Constitution in its Proper Light, We May Begin to Honor it Again
We have made the Constitution into a sacred object, a touchstone of divinity; and in that regard, we are like savages who stare at a running engine and believe that a god is in the works.
A Century of Impotency: Conservative Failure and the Administrative State
Conservatives have failed to restrain the administrative state because they have accepted that it is a necessary governmental innovation required by the complexity of modern society.
Conservatives and Our Queer Constitution
The live-and-let-live attitude, hoped for by conservatives and promised by revolutionaries, cannot in principle hold. Indeed, the move from legal tolerance to public celebration is perfectly logical.
The People’s Justice on Brumfield v. Cain
Justice Thomas’s discussion of the Brumfeld crime and its effects on the victim’s family was unorthodox—so much so that the other three dissenting justices did not join this section of the opinion.
COVID-19 Was a Biological 9/11
Given the statements of senior Chinese leaders over the last decade, Beijing clearly believes that weaponized biotechnology is the silver bullet to wage war indirectly against America and its allies.
This Is No Way to Run a Government
Our institutions are failing the American people and will continue to do so until accountability is demanded by the public and restored by our political leaders.
The Antidote To Dependence Is Building
Is it really too much to ask that our economy work for men as they are, rather than as the Left wants them to be?
How Multiculturalism Toppled Rome
From Britain to the Middle East, Rome enjoyed support from vast numbers of people who had a stake in its success, even though their ancestors were not originally Roman or even Italian.
American Despotism
True science, the evidence before ones eyes, exposes the globalist American empire as a kleptocracy that has betrayed the country, outsourced its wealth and defense, and degraded its people.
Inside Women’s Studies
The charges of oppression that privileged white feminists once leveled indiscriminately at men ended up being turned back on them by women of color.
No To Conservative Accommodationism
The Right concedes ground to the woke revolution and gives bipartisan legitimacy to a progressive project that aims to diminish the moral capital of historic America.
The Jolly Green Giant and the JFK Mystery
Nearly a quarter century after Jim Garrison’s conspiracy case fell apart, Oliver Stone demonstrated that a fraud can have a second life in fiction, if not in the universe of fact.
Antonin Scalia, Ready for His Close-up
Early interaction with the press established a lifelong Scalia theme: their questions ranged from ill-conceived to moronic, his answers alternated between bemused and bothered.
The Empire That Never Was
America cannot survive on its large-C Constitution alone. It needs a small-c constitution, too, a shared spirit of common purpose and ritual. And for that, we must become friends again.
How Communist China Does Your Thinking for You
When China talks about winning without fighting, it essentially means without us fighting back. And that comes down to getting into our heads and disabling us from the inside.
An American System for America Prosperity
The ideology of global free trade is not American—nor is it the free market system. America had the highest tariff rates in history at the same time we saw the greatest economic expansion in history.
The Triumph and Tragedy of Abba Eban
Eban’s meteoric rise and dramatic fall was a classic tragedy—and one that extended beyond his personal political career. It holds a lesson for today.
The Lincoln Miracle
In Chicago people were still scratching their heads over what the convention had just done. ‘The nomination of Abram Lincoln, although not entirely unexpected, took even his
friends by surprise.’
friends by surprise.’