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May 2025
Dear Friend and Patriot,
The new May 2025 issue is online. You can read it
here.
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President Donald Trump, center right, meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in the Oval Office at the White House, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Mystyslav Chernov)
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The Ukraine War is a symptom of the American empire’s decline. It is time for America to untangle herself from the region and focus on her vital interests.
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Image in the public domain, from pickpik.com
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A reader issues a call for conservative action: conservative activism, conservative lawfare, conservatives taking to the streets!
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Vladimir Putin presents prizes to young culture professionals and for writing and art for children. (Sergei Savostyanov, TASS / Kremlin.ru)
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A growing faction of the American right considers Vladimir Putin the last defender of Christendom. This colors how they view the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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Donald Trump at a rally in Arizona (image from: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via flickr)
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The Trump tariffs aim to take America off the addictive, but toxic, globalized economic system that enriches Wall Street while decimating Main Street.
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Lithography of Friedrich List by Josef Kriehuber, 1845 (via Wikimedia Commons)
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Being right-wing doesn't require support for unbridled free-trade, much less does it require support for so-called "free-trade agreements."
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Candid portrait of George S. Schuyler, circa 1930s (unknown / New York Public Library Digital Collections)
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George S. Schuyler adeptly caricatured black racial romanticists and Marxists with wit equal to his mentor, H. L. Mencken.
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Ignat Solzhenitsyn (Vadim Schultz / IgnatSolzhenitsyn.com)
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Joseph Pearce interviews Ignat Solzhenitsyn, son of famed Russian dissident Aleksandr, about a newly published volume of his father's speeches, "We Have Ceased to See the Purpose."
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By Piers Shepherd and Alexander Riley
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Short reviews of 'Suicide of a Superpower' by Patrick J. Buchanan, and 'The Genius of Christianity' by Viscount De Chateaubriand
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at home in the Troitse-Lykovo neighborhood of Moscow in 2001. (Courtesy of Ignat Solzhenitsyn)
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"We Have Ceased to See the Purpose" contains Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's most important speeches given during his 20 year exile in the West.
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Cécile Evans' performance 'Sprung a Leak', seen in Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany. (image from: Ralf Steinberger, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
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Michel Houellebecq, in his final novel, grapples with the struggle to find meaning in the meaningless contemporary West.
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Milton Freidman (image from: thefamouspeople.com, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
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David Gibbs’ "Revolt of the Rich" explains how the ultrawealthy seized control of the conservative movement and destroyed the American Dream.
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By Erich J. Prince and Derek Parker
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Short reviews of "A Certain Idea of America" by Peggy Noonan and "Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America" by Paola Ramos.
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Deva Cassel as Angelica Sedara (Indiana Production and Moonage Pictures)
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Netflix's reinvention of Prince Lampedusa’s “The Leopard” turns old Sicily into a cruel hellscape and, thereby, loses the thing that made the original novel great: A nostalgia for the traditional Sicilian society that Italian nationalism crushed.
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A Rake’s Progress - Plate 8 “In the Madhouse” by William Hogarth circa 1763. In this series of paintings, a rich heir, Tom Rakewell, squanders his family fortune and ends up in a mental asylum. The upper class women in the background visit the asylum to be entertained by the antics of the inmates, including their former peer. (via Wikimedia Commons)
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Joshua Doggrell tells a brief, but compelling, tale of bourgeois white guilt and its disastrous consequences.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles meeting in 1956 (National Archives)
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The expert class associates Dwight Eisenhower with goofing and golfing, and his presidency with stagnation, but the experts are wrong. Ike was a great statesman.
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Donald Trump (image from Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via flickr)
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Even peaceful revolutions impose real harms on real people, and Trump and Vance would do well to acknowledge those harms and ameliorate them.
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Paul Ehrlich (image from: Ilka Hartmann, in the Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
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The demographic prophets of doom warned of rapid population growth just a few decades ago but now bemoan population decline.
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Singer Chappell Roan during her March 25 appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast (Call Her Daddy / Youtube)
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Mothers, and parents in general, face unique challenges today that previous generations did not, and they have less support in facing them. It takes a toll.
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Israeli Army and Border Police troops stop Palestinians from entering Al-Shuhada' St. during the demonstration during the 20th anniversary of closing Al-Shuhada (Martyr's) St. in the old city of Hebron. (image from: Mustafa Bader, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
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The civilized world seems content to stand by and do nothing as Palestinians are being killed or starved to death by Israel. They are effectively what the Soviets used to call "former people."
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