Some of the notable passings in 2025 make it a year of leaving wisdom and mystery behind.
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Nigeria’s Troubles Are Constitutional
Intervention in a country that lacks a reliable understanding of what it is makes little sense and can do very little good.
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Harvard Says Yes to Discrimination, No to Western Civ
Scholars and students of real academic distinction are now fleeing institutions like Harvard for freer and fairer settings.
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The Disappearing Middle Eastern Christians
Christians of different traditions and in different lands need to hang together, or else they will most assuredly hang separately.
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Reiner Comment Hysteria Is Really Just Elite Exasperation
The performative shock of establishment elites to Trump’s comments on the death of Rob Reiner betrays their fear of losing cultural influence.
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A MAGA Christmas
In reminding us to be grateful for the sacrifice of those who came before us, the 2025 White House Christmas display also invokes gratitude to the Author of all our blessings.
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The Tsunami of Printed Money Won’t Help ‘Affordability’
The inflation caused by increased federal spending will only make life more unaffordable than it already is.
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JD Vance Gets America’s Creed and Heritage Right
The Americans who built this country bequeathed us not only a Constitution but a culture, which is more than a litany of abstract propositions.
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Wokeness Isn’t Dead
The idols of the current year are very far from being smashed to pieces and it won’t be journalists or intellectuals who finally manage it.
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Why Healthcare CEOs Should Testify Before Congress
The industry needs to explain why, at taxpayer expense, it is experiencing record corporate profits and doling out massive executive compensation packages while fraud and widespread denial of care continue.
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‘Schoolhouse Rock!’: When American Children’s Television Was Still Sane
The series created by advertising executive David McCall to help his son memorize multiplication tables taught a generation of children much more than math.
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The Self-Indulgent Trump Denunciation Parade Continues
The compulsion of so many on the right to denounce every tasteless remark Trump utters only serves to reinforce the left’s stranglehold over our cultural discourse.
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The Most Explosive Book of 2026
Jacob Siegel’s The Information State exposes how the deep state conspired to control the narrative.
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Netflix Acquisition Won’t Destroy the Film Industry
Critics panicked over a potential leftist media monopoly need to Netflix and chill.
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Trump’s Inflation Trap
Americans voted for Trump; if they wind up with Biden’s economy anyway, there’s going to be hell to pay at the ballot box.
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Reversing Reality Dysphoria
Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services restores Admiral Richard Levine to his original gender.
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A Solid National Security Strategy
President Trump’s new national security strategy is a solid plan for the new century.
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How Trump Changed America
Where his predecessors fixated on abstract issues like global terrorism, Trump is strategically focused on America’s priorities.
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President Trump’s Trustbusting Moment
The Trump administration should oppose the Netflix-Warner Bros. merger, which would create a left-wing entertainment monopoly.
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K-Pop Redemption
A new animated feature on Netflix offers a rare and surprisingly good message to kids about human agency and the choice between good and evil.
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‘Two Prosecutors’ and a Call for Anti-Communist Filmmakers
Two new films and their directors showcase the two poles of human experience that should be showcased at an upcoming Anti-Communist film festival.
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Pouring Gasoline on the Affordability Fire
Our affordability crisis is actually a government subsidy crisis.
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Biden’s Immigration Debacle Is the Media’s, Too
The media’s sudden interest in Joe Biden’s immigration failure is too little, too late.
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The Missing Intellectual Rigor in the Fuentes-Shapiro Battle
In building a case against the neoconservative understanding of America and its position in the world, Nick Fuentes would do better to hone his arguments and rein in his rhetoric.
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Death of the MTV Generation
A critique and a lamentation for the demise of a channel that defined a generation.
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Stronger Vetting Won’t Fix It
After last week’s D.C. shooting, America doesn't need stronger vetting—it needs fewer immigrants.
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Rental Americanism
The flaw in the new film 'Rental Family' is its imposition on Japan of America’s worst cultural export: self-hatred.
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The Right Needs to Tell Better Stories
Now that it’s in power, the right needs to get better at persuading people. Instead, it’s hitting them over the head with ideologically driven talking points that only elicit cheers from the amen corner.
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The ‘Men in the Water’ Canard
Enemies in the water have been legitimate targets of war before. It should be no different now.
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Conservatives Don’t Need Affirmative Action
Sometimes you deserve the bad grades you get—even if they are given to you by a transgender leftist professor.
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Flame Out at the ‘Daily Wire’
“A tragedy. A shame. A waste.” A former Daily Wire scribe on where Ben Shapiro went wrong.
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The Siege of a Synagogue and of a Cathedral
The mob that recently attacked a New York City synagogue is different from the one that attacked St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 1989, but its spirit and intention to intimidate was the same.
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Critique or Dodge of Feminism?
Helen Andrews’ assessment “The Great Feminization,” fails to address the root of the problem: the radical ideology of feminism.
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‘Iryna’s Law’ and the Bad Judges Who Make It Necessary
Where judges egregiously endanger the public with their leniency toward criminals, they should be impeached and removed from office.
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Ten Years Later, Terror Goes Unnamed
Recalling the San Bernardino massacre that the left would rather you forget.
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Americans Should Reject the British Precedent on Free Speech
The UK’s Online Safety Act lured social conservatives into thinking they were protecting children when, in fact, it was designed to limit and control political speech.
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The Social Justice Left Wants to Ruin Skateboarding
Skateboarding is a uniquely American cultural phenomenon that, like all American inventions, cuts across divisions instead of accentuating them.
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Trump’s Deportations Expose the Fragility of His Coalition
MAGA must be willing to accept that Trump loses support among many Hispanic voters when he keeps his promises and they honor tribal interests above national interests.
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America Will Not Survive Many More Minnesotas
America will either learn from the disastrous experiment with Somali corruption in Minnesota or splinter into irreconcilable shards.
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Trump’s Trade Focus Muddles His Immigration Agenda
Trump’s reputation as a dealmaker means that, for him, immigration questions are on the table in trade negotiations—even if MAGA doesn’t approve.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Exit Is a Warning to Republicans
No matter how unruly the closely divided House might be, it’s time the president tried governing with his party in Congress.
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Data Centers ‘Über Alles’
If Americans had realized how much the Trump administration would cater to Silicon Valley, the election last November might have turned out differently.
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Elon Musk’s Egalitarian Nightmare
If Boomer platitudes about equality destroyed American meritocracy, just wait till Elon Musk’s vision for a workless society has its way.
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Democrats are Becoming the Party of Treason
An incendiary video released by Democratic senators and members of Congress suggests that the party is mainstreaming treason as a political weapon.
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Pope Leo and the Illiteracy of Modern Movies
When we consider what film once was and what it can be, we realize what we are losing as we lose literacy.
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The Imperial Judiciary Strikes Back
Activist judges, who self-reverentially believe progressive technocrats and judges are democracy’s guardians, are exceeding their constitutional authority.
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Of Dating Apps and Brain Rot
Are Zoomers prisoners of dating apps or of their bad habits of mind?
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Immigration, Politicians, and the Sounds of Silence
When it comes to immigration, what a politician doesn’t say should be heard even more loudly than what he does say.
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The Right Implodes in Purges and Counter-Purges
A populist right caught between the zombie “Reaganism” of disgruntled neoconservatives and an untethered branch of white identity politics struggles to fight the left as it deals with this inner turmoil.