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My strongest impression from the United States’ 2020 general election is that the process by which we record and count votes is an unholy mess, wide open to fraud. Counting was suspended for hours without explanation; great tranches of mail-in
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Where then shall Hope and Fear their Objects find?
Must dull Suspence corrupt the stagnant Mind?
—Samuel Johnson, “The Vanity of Human Wishes”
At the time of writing in late August, the coming U.S. election is hard to call, so
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The 21st century has not so far been a happy time for American conservatives. It began with an appalling terrorist attack whose key perpetrators had taken advantage of our government’s insouciance toward mass immigration from the Third World. Instead of
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Blessed is the soul who, early in life, is gifted with a passionate interest in some art, craft, sport, pastime, or field of knowledge. The object of passion might be well-nigh anything at all, so long of course as it
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I am going to ask what Churchill would have called some naughty questions, and offer some impertinent answers. I apologize in advance for the extreme political incorrectness of what follows. In the hope of persuading the reader that I raise
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