New York’s new mayor rides a wave of media-generated spin, but New Yorkers are noticing the facts on the ground point to a troubled and dangerous administration.
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John Roberts, Birthright Citizenship, and Our Constitutional Straitjacket
The “originalism” of the sort promoted by Chief Justice John Roberts would make a straitjacket of the Constitution and deprive Americans of the ability to govern themselves.
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Russia Diminished?
Those who view Russia’s apparent drawdown in its war with Ukraine as a sign of weakness and a signal that there is no longer any danger in provoking the bear betray their ignorance of history.
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The Case for All-Girls’ Catholic Schools
A compelling new book about the virtues of all-girls’ Catholic schools gets much right but cannot resist the impulse to fly the feminist flag and ignore or dump on men.
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It Is Time to End Qatar’s Role in American Higher Education
Qatar’s investments in American colleges and universities raise questions about the costs to education and freedom of speech such funding implies.
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Orbán, Domestic Enemies, and the End of Postliberalism
Establishment conservatives delighting in the loss of Viktor Orbán in Hungary and, they imagine the “postliberals” with him, have forgotten the legacy of their own heroes.
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Virginia Democrats Reveal a Radical Design
Democrats oppose the principles of republican government that limit their short-term majorities from exercising absolute power.
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Ted Turner: Of Two Minds and Two Worlds
The American media mogul known as “The Mouth of South” has died, leaving behind a mixed legacy and a cautionary tale.
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Finding ‘Placedness’ in the Dirt of Our Own Backyards
There is nothing like tending the earth in your own backyard to inspire one to plant roots and bloom.
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The Left Doesn’t Want an Alliance With the Right
Dimwitted right-wingers seeking an alliance with the left because they are angry with Trump will discover how little they get and how much it costs.
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The Elites, the Popular Classes, and ‘The Bad News Bears’
The American classic that walked a generation through the cultural chaos of the 1970s turns 50 this year.
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Trump Should Strike Back as Vatican Escalates Its War Against Him
God may be using Caesar to correct the sinful heir to St. Peter.
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California’s Election Fraudyssey
In California, voter fraud is institutionalized, and measures that qualify for the ballot don’t always stay on the ballot.
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How Globalists Manipulated Hungary’s Election, and Plan to Crush Europe’s Conservative Nationalists
The EU’s censorship regime, with an assist from U.S. affiliated agencies claiming to “promote democracy,” has put electoral victory out of reach for Europe’s conservative nationalist movements.
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Magazine Worships Trans Representative as ‘Full of Grace’
Washingtonian magazine’s profile of Sarah McBride is an in-your-face assault on common sense and decency—though par for the course in today’s journalism.
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Hochul’s Folly: Sanctuary Politics Over Public Safety
A radical new proposal in New York is about to make the state even more unattractive and unsafe than it already is.
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Filibustering the Republic
Through the filibuster, the two parties have created conditions where it appears neither side ever gets what it wants. But make no mistake: Both are getting what they need.
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The Silenced Generation
An American-style social credit system of pervasive technology combining with woke ideology to enforce submission is rampant on campus.
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The Supreme Court Strikes a Blow Against Racial Gerrymandering
The Court has affirmed the idea that the law guarantees equal rights for citizens—not equal outcomes for racial groups.
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Victor Riesel’s Trial By Acid
The labor union insider and columnist who was the victim of an acid attack at the behest of New York gangsters deserves a serious retelling of his story.
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European Integration at 75: A Flawed Project
The hope of unifying Europe in all its national diversity has been hopelessly overturned by leftist ideologues who, instead, want to destroy national diversity in the name of a forced unity.
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Do GOP Voters Recognize How Trump Saved Them From Trans Barbarism?
At this decisive moment, Republicans must not squander Trump’s hard-won restoration of biological truth.
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A Leftist Is Not Improved by Zionism
It is interesting to note how establishment American conservatives equate moderation with support for Israel and, for that, are willing to overlook all other leftist sins.
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The Lost Literary Life of Marilyn Monroe
There was a time when American popular culture was one of real intellectual and cultural striving.
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Women Are Having Fewer Kids Because They Don’t Want Them
We are unlikely to solve America’s fertility problem unless we ask hard questions about feminism and its priorities.
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What Americans Can Learn From China’s Dating Hellscape
China’s dystopia stems from its culture of crude utilitarianism and materialism.
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Once Again, Events Prove Political Violence Is a Democrat Problem
Even if some Democrats have a problem with how readily some in their party approve and celebrate political violence, they will have a hard time reversing the rot that is now mainstream on the left.
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Selfish Liberals Hate Selfless Marital Love
A life devoted to empty self-fulfillment will often be quite unfulfilling.
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Colleges Are Making Political Violence Worse
Young men like Cole Allen shouldn’t emerge from years of “liberal” education more ready to accept, or commit, political violence.
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The Yale Report Won’t Save American Higher Education
Putting a committee of faculty in charge of determining what has gone wrong in American higher education was like putting a team of drug dealers in charge of determining how best to enforce the nation’s drug laws.
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Clarence Thomas Is Right on Rights
Government cannot create our rights any more than it can create the truth. It is charged only with recognizing and protecting them.
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The Strange Leftism of Middle-Class Professionals
Patronage networks explain why white, middle-class professionals are so fanatically loyal to the left.
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A Film That Could Change a Student’s Life
What if the great debunking machine of academic science is sputtering to a stop? The Story of Everything makes that persuasive case.
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Workplace Raids Are Coming—and They’re Essential
It is not extreme to encourage aggressive enforcement of the law against those engaged in illegal hiring practices. It is a realist’s understanding of our national situation.
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Lessons From a Finnish Attack on Free Speech
A recent, chilling decision from the Finnish Supreme Court underscores how the U.S. is one of the last bastions of free speech.
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The Very Big Lie About Sam Francis and ‘Chronicles’
Recent attempts to smear Sam Francis and, with him, this magazine with the views of people like David Duke are just more tired myth perpetuation by the left to discredit serious American populism.
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David Byrne Is Joyful, and the Left Can’t Stand It
The former Talking Heads artist invokes a joyful energy in his music that affirms American life and repulses the mindless worship of the ugly that preoccupies the left.
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‘Trumping’ Woke Savages by Honoring Jefferson and Clay
Trump understands that the nation that dishonors its founders will fail to thrive.
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When Democrats Engaged in ‘Mortal Kombat’
How a low-resolution video game once enraged pearl-clutching Democrats and led to a moral panic.
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Immigration Amnesty by Any Other Name
For the GOP, this bill means death with indignity at the polls.
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How the 2020 United States Census Defrauded the American People
The Census Bureau is deliberately falsifying real population data and manipulating our elections through a harmless-sounding algorithm called “differential privacy.”
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Calling out the Billionaire ‘Boss’
“Born in the USA” Bruce Springsteen never supported the America that actually exists, but rather its Obama-style transformation.
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The President Against the Pope
The core dispute between the Catholic hierarchy and President Trump is, and always was, about immigration.
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A Film That Reminds Us Who We Are
In this troubled 250th year of our republic, A Great Awakening is the film we need.
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No, Viktor Orbán’s Defeat Is Not a Defeat for National Conservatism
Although Hungary ousted its pioneering national conservative leader after his long incumbency, the movement he started is far from finished.
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Lessons From Orbán’s Loss in Hungary
The U.S. should have encouraged broader engagement with European allies like Viktor Orbán to prevent the ascendancy of the leftist European Union.
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Persian Games
A permanent peace in the Middle East is unlikely, no matter how effectively Iran’s military potential has been degraded over the past six weeks.
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Women’s Basketball Will Never Be Popular—and Doesn’t Deserve to be Well-Paid
NPR celebrated a new minimum salary of $270,000 per year for WNBA players as merely a “livable wage,” even though the average U.S. salary is less than $65,000.
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Pope vs. President Is a Fight Everyone Loses
When a pope and a president work together for peace, without compromising with evil, they can achieve what’s otherwise impossible.