If the right keeps laughing at Joe Biden, it risks sleepwalking into another devastating defeat for itself and the country.
Year: 2024
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Donald Trump Is Blessed with the Very Best Enemies
It is often said that it is better to be lucky than good. Donald Trump have been very lucky, indeed, in his choice of enemies.
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The Trump of Myth and Legend
There is no need to compare Trump to some biblical hero or a mythic savior in order to state one’s agreement with one or more of his stated policies.
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The Swamp Boils at the Thought of Trump Leaving NATO
Now that Trump is the likely frontrunner in the next presidential election, Washington is forced to envision the possibility that he intends to curtail America’s commitments overseas.
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Crime Hits Home
When one is victimized by a career criminal, something much more valuable than property is often stolen.
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The Gorgeous New Movie ‘Cabrini’ Will Break Your Heart
To watch the film is to look at what once existed through eyes jaundiced by the bitter tears shed in noting what we face in our country and in the Church of today.
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Welcoming Migrants Creates War-Rationing Scenario
The sacrifices Americans make today do not serve any greater good, such as winning a war, preserving our way of life, or giving their children a chance at a better future. Instead, our government is making us sacrifice to meet the needs of foreign nationals here illegally.
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Young People Are Right to Hate the Office
Don’t blame the 40-hour work week or youthful laziness for the increasing frustrations young people are voicing about their lives and their jobs. Blame today’s woke workplace and a culture that pushes phony self-actualization over fulfillment.
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Killing Is Par for the Course in the Middle East
Given the amount and variety of killing in the Middle East from all parties, it is curious how the media fixates on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, where casualties are comparatively low.
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Migrant Crime Turning Cities Into War Zones
The Statue of Liberty says, "Give me your tired, your poor." It doesn't say your lawbreakers, brutes, and gang leaders. But criminals posing as asylum seekers are exploiting soft-hearted Americans and terrorizing their cities.
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What Brings Them to Lourdes
Lourdes is that rare place where the very sick and severely disabled are put in the spotlight and treated with great care and respect, and not as "useless" or as "burdens" in any way.
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Putin Almost Blew It
None of what Putin said is new to those who have closely followed the sad saga of post-Soviet Ukraine, but the tens, perhaps hundreds, of millions of people who will watch this interview because of the identity of the interviewer, are unlikely ever again to accept uncritically the standard narrative spewed out by Western regimes and their media lapdogs.
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Flannery O’Connor and Shadows of Evil
O’Connor understood the complicated relationship between tragedy and joy was related to the inevitable confrontation of good and evil. Freedom is embracing the metaphysical surrender to the knowledge that we are not the beginning or even the end of things.
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Michelle Obama Isn’t Running for President
Dropping Michelle Obama into the presidential race as the ultimate Hail Mary pass may be a fun gossip item, but the important thing to remember is that there’s nothing in it for her.
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It’s Time to End the Legal Fiction of ‘Asylum’
This strange worship of foreigners has been foisted on America in ways that are unnatural and utterly disabling.
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The Mystery of Thomas More
Why didn’t More simply flee when his life was threatened by King Henry VIII? Both his obedience to God and his patriotism forbade it.
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Who Paid the Authors of the Border Bill?
Everything we know about the so-called “bipartisan” border bill suggests that it is has been worked out at the behest of powerful interests that have nothing to do with the will or interests of the American people.
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Democrats Roll Out Welcome Mat for World’s Criminals
International crime rings are exploiting Joe Biden's open borders and heading to blue states with soft-on-crime policies.
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Democrats’ Big Gamble on the Border Crashers Will Pay Political Dividends
Even if the Democrats fail to bestow the franchise on illegals immediately, their beneficiaries do offer enormous near-term and long-term uses for the party.
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Is Taylor Swift Trouble for Trump?
Left-of-center social and economic attitudes are, for Millennial and Generation Z women, the closest thing to not having any politics: They are the path of least resistance—and least reflection.
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Abused Virginia Teen Gets a Second Chance at Justice While Democrats Block It
An interview with the mother of a sex-trafficked, gender-confused teen, who says that Virginia’s proposed ‘Sage’s Law,’ opposed by Democrats, would protect troubled minors and preserve the rights of parents.
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Shiny, Happy People
Like death, suffering is inescapable. It represents the burden of being. But too often today, Americans are trying to escape it with therapeutics and chemicals, neatly packaged as happiness in a bottle.
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‘The Super Bowl Is Rigged!’: An Intervention
To discredit the MAGA and GOP populist movement, the left doesn’t have to resort to disinformation if the movement is disinforming and discrediting itself.
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Is Common Sense Not So Common After All?
In their desire to overcomplicate the world and, perhaps, elevate their own value in it, researchers delight in telling us that common sense is not very common. Perhaps that would mean something if those same researchers had the common sense to understand what common sense actually is. But they don’t.
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The New Gold Rush—The American Border
What U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents really think about what's happening at our southern border.
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February 2024 Chronicles
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Polemics & Exchanges: February 2024
Chronicles readers discuss Taki's controversial December column on Palestinian misery, also, some praise for Stephen Presser's recent review, "Scalia Gets the Biography He Deserves."
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Remembering Augusto Del Noce
Augusto Del Noce viewed politics and philosophy as inseparably linked and believed that society had to be understood in reference to the history of its thought. He diagnosed Marxism as the deification of history.
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The Winding Passage Back to Plato
In The Narrow Passage, Glenn Ellmers reminds readers of the need for a robust understanding of nature in any well-grounded conservatism.
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The Barefooted Faulkner
Faulkner’s work was deeply embedded in the oral tradition of the south, and has a strong sense of place.
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A Liturgy from Hell
Pope Francis has illicitly suppressed the extraordinary form of the Mass and forced an irreverent liturgy down our throats.
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The Trouble with Gender Studies
At New College, we recently ditched the gender studies program, which did not benefit the college in any way but was, in fact, doing great harm.
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What We Are Reading: February 2024
Short reviews of The Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell, and How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, by Batya Ungar-Sargon.
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Trans Lunacy: The Feminine Touch
The mothering instinct causes women to ensure everyone feels equally valued rather than “left out." This can have serious policy consequences when women occupy public office. Mothering does well in the home, but disastrously in government.
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Childish Things
America has managed to become a country of childlike grown-ups with stunted imaginations—the worst combination of each state of life.
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The Fires of America’s Cultural Revolution Were Already Burning
Christopher Rufo excavates several unpleasant and destructive left-wing thought streams that are eroding the social order on which we all depend. His prescriptions for action are convincing, though it is less certain whether his diagnosis is accurate.
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Books in Brief: February 2024
Short reviews of From Immigrant to Public Intellectual, by Murray Sabrin, and The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics, by Kody Cooper and Justin Dyer.
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Harvard Still Hates America
A more thorough congressional investigation into all the problems Harvard and other elite colleges cause the American people is needed. These elite schools consistently exhibit contempt for normal Americans.
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Weren’t We Supposed to ‘Learn to Code?’
An undercover video exposed IBM's CEO pressuring his executives to hire based on racial quotas that discriminate against whites, Asians, and males. Such apparent violations of the Civil Rights Act are now standard practice in America.
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Culture War, Whether We Like It or Not
We need to rethink how we fight the ascendant cultural left, which does not consider truth an arbiter.
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Nikki’s Lost Cause
The hysterical response to Nikki Haley's Civil War comment simply shows that one is not allowed to contradict the narratives of our media betters or their interpretations of reality.
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The Struggle for the Gate of Tears
Houthi attacks on Israeli allied vessels in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait are disrupting the world economy and prompting the U.S. to intervene. Known as "The Gate of Tears," this strait is the gateway for much of the world's commerce.
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A Lunch for would-be Uxoricides
Claus von Bülow once hosted a small lunch with several accused wife killers, and yours truly. It was a memorable luncheon!
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There’s Nowhere Left to Run from the State
If you think living in a reliably red state will protect you when the left targets you for punishment, think again.
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The Left’s Convenient Epiphany on Border Security
The anti-borders left will never truly abandon its plan to bring America to its knees through unsustainable levels of illegal immigration. It will only change its spots temporarily, repackaging itself as the solution to the problem it created.
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Yes, America Is Being Invaded
Though most of the migrants crossing the U.S. southern border are in search of economic opportunity, some are used as tools by our enemies. The invasion is deliberate.
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Europa Delenda Est, Part II
An assessment of the situation in Europe by the patriotic right in Germany and Italy.
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‘The Beekeeper’ Is the Hunter Biden Movie In Disguise
The Beekeeper doesn't deliver the red pill whole, but it's the closest thing we're likely to see on film about the corruption possible in the age of the deep state.