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Rejecting ‘Systemic Racism’
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Rejecting ‘Systemic Racism’

The latest election cycle did not deliver happy results for the political right. Our dismay is compounded by the strong impression of an unfair result.   Whatever you think of the integrity of last November’s elections, it cannot be denied that in the months prior a great many very big . . . Subscribers Only...

Dissecting a Dirty Election
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Dissecting a Dirty Election

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 votes appeared out of nowhere; vote monitors were . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to...

Election Suspense
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Election Suspense

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 . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article and gain access to other exclusive features....

Flame of Hope
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Flame of Hope

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 reversing the trend toward demographic transformation, the authorities . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now...

Blessed Be the Passionate
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Blessed Be the Passionate

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 is not vicious: stamp collecting or field hockey . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now...

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Thinking About Internment

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 these issues with no pleasure at all, I shall . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe...