Stanley Fish’s promotion of Judith Butler shows how well-meaning but muddled liberals end up protecting our captured institutions from democratic discourse and accountability, often in the name of “defending democracy.”
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The Vienna Philharmonic’s Excellence Proves Europe Is Doing Something Right
Contrary to the wishes of some American critics, the orchestra still chooses its performers through blind auditions, testing only for musical excellence and scorning DEI considerations.
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Mahmoud Khalil and the Red-Green Assault on American Sovereignty
The drama over Khalil’s arrest and detention is not really about Khalil but about sovereignty of the United States over its borders.
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Good News, Illegals: There’s an App for Self-Deportation Now
The Trump administration is redesigning the Biden administration’s infamous CBP One phone app that facilitated illegal immigration into an instrument for self-deportation.
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Immoral Cultural Arbiters
America’s culture is damaged not so much by the low standards of the entertainment industry as it is by the calculated strategy of anointing these vandals as moral authorities.
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Bhattacharya’s Confirmation Hearing Shows Why the NIH Needs Reform
If America is serious about reversing the chronic disease epidemic and restoring public trust in science, confirming Jay Bhattacharya as NIH director is not just the right move—it’s essential.
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The Wannabe Revolutionary Is No Great Man of History
Luigi Mangione has become a cultlike figure to certain segments of both the revolutionary left and right. But even by the standards of these deluded people, he is a fraud.
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Elon Musk’s Bleak House-Cleaning
Elon Musk and his band of DOGErs have exposed those in government who are not working in the interest of the American people but have their attentions turned elsewhere.
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The Spirited Right Must Unite Around Consent
It will not do for the right to make lazy appeals to tradition when the American tradition now includes a long history of support for the administrative state.
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Dealmaker, Peacemaker, President
President Trump understands that American foreign policy is rooted in interests before values.
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Can Donald Trump Win a Trade War?
Good economic policy calls for a cool head, and Wall Street fears the president is letting his passions set the nation on a dangerous course.
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What Kash Patel Will Find in the Kavanaugh FBI File
Many of the same characters involved in lawfare against President Trump are implicated in the untruthful ambush of me and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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Steve Bannon Wants America to Ditch China—That Won’t Happen
The U.S. is not in a position to do what Bannon asks, but we can negotiate better terms and regain control of our trade and manufacturing policy.
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The Censorious American Right
The trick of identifying those on the uncooperative right as being “woke right” or leftists in disguise is deployed for no other reason than to keep us out of the conversation.
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Gay Surrogacy Is an Indescribable Evil
Children are not commodities to be bought and sold on the open market to appease the latest degeneracies foisted upon us by the LGBTQ mob.
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The Democratic Fork in the Road and the Woke Repudiation Imperative
Will Democrats get the memo, or will they continue down the path of woke irrelevancy?
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America First: Settling the War in Ukraine
In putting America first, President Trump is not aligning with Russia but with what is best for our people and the world.
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Fine Young Cannibals
A case where an actual cannibal was ruled not guilty by reason of insanity, released from custody, and released has its roots in our system of white coat supremacy.
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On the Trump-Churchill Comparison
Looked at from another perspective, the comparison is more apt than some may see … but it is not as favorable to Churchill as they imagine.
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The Lawsuit Coup
Letitia James and 18 other attorneys general try to torpedo DOGE and tie the Trump administration up in court.
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Trump Is No FDR … and Zelensky Is No Churchill
The president is a much more honest broker than Roosevelt was, and the Ukrainian dictator is no hero.
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Europe’s Decline Was a Choice
Europe took a 30-year vacation from history and can’t correct course with its current leadership.
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Richard Dawkins’ Ukraine Hypocrisy
Dawkins denounces Trump as a bully in a smug post that is a perfect example of his commitment to browbeating rather than honest debate.
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Germany’s Election Promises an Unsteady Future
With a federal chancellor as “conservative” as Mitt Romney, Germany will continue to be an oppressive leftist state on par with Canada and Sweden.
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The New Superman: Soaring Clear of Wokeness?
In the wake of recent death blows to wokeism, America is ready for a film that celebrates a fully masculine and fully American character.
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The FBI’s New York Field Office Appears To Be Hiding Something
The office was ordered but apparently failed to deliver the full set of documents in the infamous Jeffrey Epstein case.
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Florida Provides a Blueprint for U.S. Arts Leadership
Organizations that refuse to give in to cancel culture or put politics ahead of the arts are proving themselves financial as well as artistic success stories.
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Conservative Stewardship Versus the Libertarian Tech Bros
Trump’s new Silicon Valley allies want to create high-tech ultra-capitalist economic zones, at the expense of conserving nature and the quality of life.
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Cheering On Trump’s Masculine ‘Reign of Destruction’
It’s time to end the longstanding nonsense feminist academics imposed on both the campus and the wider culture in their efforts to undermine men.
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The Striking Silence Surrounding July 13
There is a wall of silence surrounding both the unknown and the known lessons of the Trump assassination attempt last summer.
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The Unmatched Bigotry of Joy Reid
The former MSNBC host finally met the media storm she could not weather: low ratings.
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Trump Ending Benefits to Illegals Is a Game Changer
More than any other policy change, this order disincentivizes illegal border crossings and encourages lawbreakers to go home.
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Henry Hyde’s Monuments
The decision to remove the late congressman’s name from a judicial building in his home state can’t touch Hyde’s most lasting legacy.
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Getting Schooled
The absence of imagination and faith explains everything wrong with American education today.
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A Plea to DOGE: Please Keep Those Axes Sharp and Swinging
A taxpayer’s lament for government overspending.
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Born American? A Look at ‘Birthright Citizenship’
Does the U.S. Constitution demand that virtually everyone born on our soil be considered a citizen by birth?
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How Trump Makes Europe Stronger
Eight decades after World War II, Europe needs to invest in its own moral, material, and intellectual defense.
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The Vulgarization of Ideology
The work of Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora y Mon explores how rational men can be consumed by the totalitarian impulse.
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Trump is Right About Ukraine
Western ideologues are animated by a fantasy about Ukraine’s prospects in the war. Trump is dealing in reality.
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Trump’s Week That Shook the World
In just a week, Trump has transformed American foreign policy as it applies to the Russia-Ukraine War and all of Europe.
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Making the Arts Great Again
Trump’s takeover of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is an extraordinary opportunity to gift excellence to the nation through the arts.
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Vance in Munich and Foreign Policy Realism for the Modern World
Nationalism and realism are the way forward in the 21st century. Europe needs to get with the program.
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Museum Spat With Turkey Reveals the Superiority of Western Culture
Turkey’s demand for the U.S. to return so-called Turkish artifacts reveals little more than that nation’s resentment of the West.
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Trump’s DEI Reforms Are a Great Start—More Is Needed
Reformers of the administrative state underestimate just how ingrained in our government these bad ideas are.
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The Founding Fathers Funded Government Through Tariffs
If government were reduced to the size intended, tariffs could once again serve as the primary source of federal government revenue.
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U.S. Attorney Sassoon’s Dubious ‘Principled Resignation’
Former federal prosecutor Danielle Sassoon’s stated reasons for resigning rather than dropping charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams are legally suspect.
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An NYT Journalist Melts Down on Musk
Maureen Dowd, who once gushed over Elon Musk, now gives in to her Trump derangement and renounces her former self.