American Jews may be at unease with the growing acceptance of literal jihadis as a loyal Democratic client base, but they are certainly not turning to the right.
Year: 2024
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Architeuthis dux and the American Deep State
The perfect symbol for the regime of the deep state is not the beloved bald eagle, but the giant squid.
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Sex, Conservative Hot Girls, and the Right Way to Stick It to Stodgy Wokesters
Beauty is the antidote to stodgy wokeness, but beauty is not promiscuity
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Biden-Harris Border Crisis Comes to Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket
The border crisis has gotten so bad there’s no longer any escaping the effects—not even in the nation’s elite zip codes.
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J.D. Vance Vindicates Trump with Masterful Debate Performance
Trump did well in choosing a clear successor to the MAGA movement.
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I’m Going to See a New Play About Me and Christine Blasey Ford
To defend my honor and expose the lies about Ford’s Kavanaugh story, I will show up at the Woolly Mammoth Theater on Oct. 7 and call the American Stasi out.
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Vance Defended Trump Better Than Trump
Vance effectively argued Trump’s case on the economy, cost of living, the borders, foreign policy, the pro-abortion extremism of the Democrats and election-denying.
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Why Is Abortion So Important to the Left?
Conservatives need to understand what is really going on.
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By Their Incompetence, Biden and Harris Strike a Blow Against the Deep State
More Americans than ever understand that the uproar over the upcoming election is less a contest between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, and more a campaign to remain in power by what some call the deep state.
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The Left’s Word Games Can’t Conceal ‘Third World’ Impact of Open Borders
The left wants to make an issue of Trump’s choice of words in calling what’s happened to our cities “Third World.” The issue is the loss of life caused by Harris’s open border.
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Austria’s Right Wins the Election, But Will Not Be Allowed to Rule
Austria’s election carried a sovereignist party over the finish line in first place. Yet a coalition of losing left-wing parties will band together to keep it from governing.
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Russia, Russia, Russia Again
The Trump-Russia collusion play is hardly legitimate, but it is strategically savvy. Democrats have their reasons for playing this card once more.
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Debate-o-mania
The wild rhetoric of Harris and Trump in their epic debate-o-mania should be compared with a general ledger of political actions. Election '24 needs an accountant!
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The Watergate Show Trial
During the Watergate show trial, the due process guarantees of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments were simply cast aside in an effort to destroy a president who was hated by the Washington “Deep State.”
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The Pitfalls of a Woke Foreign Policy
American foreign policy holds woke social engineering as its objective to the detriment of the true national interest.
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Remembering Joseph R. McCarthy
Joe McCarthy was perfectly justified in using his political position to pursue an investigation of Communist subversion. There was nothing sinister about fighting communism as an ideology or resisting Soviet imperialism.
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What We Are Reading: October 2024
Short reviews of Phenomena: Doppelmayr’s Celestial Atlas by Giles Sparrow, and Charlotte's Web by E. B. White.
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No Terrorism to the Left
'Terrorist Minds' illustrates a consistent blind spot on the part of terrorism scholars—left-wing terrorism.
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The Foundations of Faith
Nicholas Orme has had the original idea of treating England's great cathedrals as a single class of cultural architecture, encapsulating the English religious imagination at its most expansive.
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Can’t Keep A Great Man Down
John Ganz focuses on American cultural and political wars during the 1990s, when two maverick candidates, Patrick J. Buchanan and H. Ross Perot, rocked the world of staid mainstream conservatism.
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Books in Brief: October 2024
Short reviews of Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen, and Adam and Eve after the Pill by Mary Eberstadt.
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Can’t We All Just Make Better Movies?
The sheer incongruity of the deceased Ray Liotta appearing in a new release added a hint of fascination to "1992," an otherwise formulaic heist picture produced by rap artist Snoop Dogg.
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How the Medical Industry’s Consensus on Sex Changes Fell Apart
High-ranking officials in the Biden administration worked with a transgender NGO to promote mutilating sex-change procedures for minors, according to a recent court-ordered document release.
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Kamala Harris Has No Business in Politics
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown knew what he was doing when he dumped Kamala Harris. She’s not up to snuff.
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Will Ireland Remain Irish?
Mass third-world immigration threatens Irish identity and stretches social services to the breaking point. It remains to be seen whether Ireland will remain Irish.
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The West’s Fraudulent Democracies
Western elites consider transgenderist ideology and mass immigration foundational to democracy, while in truth they are destructive of all things democratic.
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Anarcho-Tyranny in Aurora
As Venezuelan gang members harass and pillage tenants in one Colorado city, the local authorities blame landlords. Anarcho-tyranny has come to Colorado.
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From the Devil to the Deep Blue Sea
Has Uncle Sam indeed signed a Faustian bargain with the Israelis? If so, who is Mephistopheles in the tale?
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Iran Targets America’s Elections—and Trump
Liberals accuse Trump of being cozy with dictators, but the dictators of Iran's cruel and corrupt regime find comfort only with Trump's Democratic opponents.
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Trump’s Public Opinion Coup on Immigration
Kamala Harris’s contrived photo-op visit to the border demonstrates how Trump’s immigration nationalism has become the norm.
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More Adults Need to Learn From This North Carolina Teenager’s Courage
A 15-year-old North Carolina high school student spoke more truth to power at a recent school board meeting than many adults can muster. We all need to stand up to the perversion in our schools.
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Seeking Silence
Our constant and artificial encounters with devices are keeping us from the more meaningful encounters with God and other human beings.
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New Reagan Biopic Falls Short
The film does very little to resolve Ronald Reagan’s disputed legacy and may, unwittingly, reinforce many of the left’s false caricatures.
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The Amy Wax Inflection Point for ‘Elite’ Higher Education
The Amy Wax struggle session shows that the process is the real punishment. And the indignity is the whole point.
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The University of Pennsylvania Strikes a Blow Against Free Speech
The university’s decision to suspend law professor Amy Wax for politically incorrect statements should concern all Americans who care about free expression.
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Bezos Gets It Backwards: He Should Run Amazon Like the Post and the Post Like Amazon
Jeff Bezos has an employee retention problem at both of his companies: Amazon can’t keep them, and The Washington Post can’t get rid of them.
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Hezbollah Degraded
Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to switch the focus from Gaza in the south to Hezbollah in the north was an operational success of the highest order and a political masterpiece.
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A Harris Presidency Will Give Sanctuary to Gang Members, Victimize Law-Abiding People
If Kamala wins, so do the gangs.
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‘Smurfing’ Is Corrupting American Elections
A widespread illegal campaign finance practice called “smurfing” steals the identities of small-dollar donors and uses them to mask repeat campaign contributions by the wealthy.
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A Grimdark Videogame Masterpiece
The newly released Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 shows the ways that video games can be authentic art and drive the politically correct busybodies in media crazy.
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Trump’s Would-Be Assassin’s Explanation
If Democrats don’t weigh their words more carefully, more violence will follow from the likes of Ryan Routh.
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False Narratives Driving America’s Immigration Policies
Before any serious work can be done to correct America’s border policy failures, we must dispel the false narratives about immigration that too many Americans still accept as fact.
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Schadenfreude for National Review’s ‘Canceled’ Editor-in-Chief
It is difficult to summon sympathy for Rich Lowry, who has engaged in exactly the kind of willful canceling of others as is happening to him now.
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Whistleblower Claims ABC News Colluded with Democrats in Debate Prep
Very little is known about the woman who could be elected president in November. ABC News appears to have colluded with Kamala Harris’s campaign to keep it that way.
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‘Exemplum’s’ Paul Roland on Faith and Movie Making
An interview with the young Catholic filmmaker who made a movie with just $10,000 and got a 100 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Why Are the Nutjobs Trying to Kill Political Opponents All Left-Wingers?
The Left has had a violent streak going back at least as far as Karl Marx's calls for a global revolution of the proletariat—and the French Revolution even before that.
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The Self-Sabotage of Abortion ‘Rights’ Absolutists
Abortion rights absolutists don’t realize how unsafe and unsavory abortion can be when the civilization that values female safety and health is destroyed.
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College Sports Are Essential
Despite the resentful envy most academics have for athletes, sports are critical to a balanced education.