Conservatives who responded to Kirk's assassination with calls to “lower the temperature” are dangerously deluded. The right is in a desperate battle against a modern left that justifies and excuses political violence.
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Month: October 2025
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Different Governments for Different Folks
The real "white curse" of colonialism was the attempt by Europeans to impose modern political structures on peoples accustomed to tribal government.
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The Strange Death of the Arab State
After a century of failures, the modern Arab state republics have nearly all collapsed. Only the Arab tribal monarchies have survived the winds of change.
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Conservatism Inc.’s Ceaseless Quest for the Great Black Hope
Since the civil rights movement, the American conservative establishment has been obsessed with converting a racial demographic that will always view them with contempt.
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Remembering Jean Raspail
Jean Raspail's novels convey the insights and intuitions necessary to understand the reality of Western decline.
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What We Are Reading: October 2025
James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935) packed a great deal of both writing and left-wing activism into a short life. From an Aberdeenshire farming background, he worked in journalism, wrote fiction admired by H. G. Wells, and helped set up the Aberdeen Soviet. His trilogy, A Scots Quair, is still read in Scotland. He joined the military...
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Children Are Our Future, and the Future Is Grim
Melissa Deckman tries to criticize Gen Z's role in politics while clearly sympathizing with their most biggest radicals.
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How Chicago Politics Sparked the Civil War
David S. Brown, in 'A Hell of a Storm,' lays blame for the Civil War at the feet of Illinois' Sen. Stephen Douglas who selfishly fought for a major national project benefitting Chicago.
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Boris the Blowhard
Boris Johnson now profits, by way of premature memoir, off a career built on family connections and an ability to soothe voters with pleasant, but empty phrases. Behold the blowhard.
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Books In Brief: October 2025
Short reviews of 'Seven Things You Can’t Say About China,' by Tom Cotton, and 'Antisemitism in America' by Chuck Schumer.
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‘The Breakfast Club,’ and Better Teen Movies
Even more than the standard litany of influential teen movies, these forgotten classics touch upon coming-of-age themes that grapple with reality.
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Nigel Farage on the Rise
An interview with Reform UK's Nigel Farage, on his plans to replace Britain’s Conservative Party, on British immigration, social unrest, the “mum vote,” and what’s “far right” these days.
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Donald Trump Has Triggered a “Time of Troubles” for Canada
America’s neighbor to the north is living on borrowed time, and its next crisis may be just around the corner.
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Conservatism Amid the Signal Flood
Every medium and every change in technology generates new fears about the same old problem—the human tendency to ideological and political theater born of our inevitable and incomplete understanding.
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Is Civil War Really Coming to Britain?
Predictions of impending civil war in the UK and in the United States are greatly exaggerated.
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The Poison in America’s Heart
Online radicalization, whether from the left or right, seems to be the real root of the recent spate of political assassinations.
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What Is the West?
For many, "the West" is uncommonly hard to define. One universal characteristic all Western nations share is that they are all being targeted by mass illegal immigration.