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Bullets, Ballots, and Books

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September 5, 2021

What Harry Jaffa teaches is neither easy nor comforting. Rather than offer his students and readers idle chatter or shallow patriotism, he sought to reveal how natural right remains a living force.

Envy as the Path to Political Power

By Anne Hendershott

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August 20, 2021

Because envy is ever-present, a society’s ability to achieve greatness depends on its ability to control this highly destructive emotion.

The Tyranny of Experts

By Ronald J. Pestritto

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August 13, 2021

Understanding the origins of the administrative state goes a long way towards grasping how policy is really made today in American government

Historians Selling Out for Leftist Star, Nikole Hannah-Jones

By Mary Grabar

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July 24, 2021

Backpeddlers like Leslie Harris and Sean Wilentz, who are both reputable historians, have allowed themselves to be compromised by their solidarity and sympathy with their political tribes.

‘We Will Not Pay’

By Ned Ryun

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July 10, 2021

On the eve of the Revolution, tensions in Boston mount between the American patriots defending their rights and the royal governor in Massachusetts.

Incommensurability in 2021 American Politics

By Kenneth Levin

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July 2, 2021

The two, incommensurable, political paradigms of pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary America coincide with two different comprehensions of human nature.

Dissenting from Woke Superstition

By Jay Whig

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June 25, 2021

There will be an opportunity to finally discredit our modern religion of wokeism, and to build anew on its collapse with creditable notions of both the natural and the supernatural.

The U.S. Needs Measured Confrontation with China

By Bradley A. Thayer and Lianchao Han

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June 18, 2021

China is not a status quo great power. It is a revolutionary great power that seeks fundamental and permanent changes to the contemporary order in international politic

The Historians’ War Over Nikole Hannah-Jones and the 1619 Project

By Mary Grabar

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June 11, 2021

White (Communist) saviors, black Communists, back-peddlers, fellow contributors, star athletes, activists, and others.

From What Lab Did ‘Cancel Culture’ Leak?

By Bill Hurrell

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June 4, 2021

Woke cancel culture is not just a set of ideas. It is, as its name implies, a culture that came from a specific place, even if that place exists only in cyberspace.

Americans Unite

By Michael Anton

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May 1, 2021

Can the veterans of the old conservative wars come to a truce?

The Rise of the New State Church

By Austin Ruse

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April 17, 2021

The cult of secularism has been enshrined in our laws, and in our democracy, not through the democratic process but through the least democratic means: imposition by the courts.

The Fatuousness of Guilt as an Instrument of Policy

By Roger Kimball

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April 10, 2021

When the world no longer speaks meaningfully to us, we shout into the void and pretend the echoes come from on high.

Too Much of a Unity

By Glenn Ellmers

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March 26, 2021

Are we two peoples and two regimes occupying the same country?

The Method in the Madness

By Milton Abdiel

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March 20, 2021

A five-year effort to psychoanalyze and pathologize Donald Trump and his supporters bore fruit on January 6. But it won’t end there.

The Narrative, the Coup, and the Bourgeoisie

By Milton Abdiel

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February 27, 2021

Marxism, innately, requires an oppressor to push back against. With Donald Trump out of office, expect the definition of “oppressor” in America to continue to expand.

Biden Wants Unity? Give it to Him Good and Hard

By Ruth Papazian

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February 20, 2021

America First populists currently siloed in several parties should give Biden the unity he wants good and hard by moving into the Democratic Party and voting en bloc.

Why Establishment Conservatives Still Miss the Point of Trump

By Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

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February 13, 2021

Our conservative friends are free to dislike Donald Trump’s policy answers. But they need to recognize the very real reasons why Trump became a political phenomenon in the first place.

Who Killed the Anti-War Democrats?

By Ray McCoy

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January 23, 2021

A movement that once sought to bring the counterculture into the government has now, instead, become integrated within it.

A Marxist Defends The Great Reactionaries

By Adam Lehrer

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January 1, 2021

Leftism has become the cultural hegemony. Reactionaries, due to these conditions, are now the outsiders looking in, while most leftists are protecting the system from its own dissent.