February 2025
Dear Friend and Patriot,
The new February 2025 issue is online. You can read it
here.
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Baby Boomers Bobbi Kelly and Nick Ercoline embrace on Aug. 17, 1969 after a night of partying at the Woodstock Music Festival. (Burk Uzzle / Alamy)
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Baby Boomers have bankrupted almost all of America’s public institutions, indebted future generations at levels impossible to repay, and delivered us all into the post-COVID dystopia of frayed social fabric and a total loss of public trust.
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President Ronald Reagan with William F. Buckley at the White House on Feb. 7, 1986, for Reagan’s 75th birthday. (White House Photographic Collection)
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Baby Boomer conservatism arose during the salad days of American capitalism, the apex of American military might, and the drama of the Cold War. That's all gone and the young right stands at a crossroads.
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Baby Boomers have safeguarded and perpetuated a grand myth through which they interpret past and present events, and derive motivations. Myth is one hell of a drug.
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Fox News continues occupying the right-center in American politics, but the rising generation of American rightists are miles further off to starboard.
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Vice President Kamala Harris, along with California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack delivers remarks at the Forest Service Del Rosa Fire Station in San Bernardino, California, Friday, January 21, 2022. (image from: U.S. Department of Agriculture, via flickr, in the Public Domain)
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As so much of California lies in ruin many wonder whether the Golden State has finally had enough of the ideological incontinence that has brought it so low. Anything is possible in the Trump era!
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Left: Donald Trump speaking with attendees at the 2024 AmericaFest (image from: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons). Center: Flag of Europe (image from Nl74, in the Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons). Right: Elon Musk (image from: The Royal Society, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
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President Trump and Elon Musk use their platforms to support and sway the ever-dwindling opposition to monolithic woke leftist control in a Western Europe.
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Jonathan Swift deployed satire in defending traditional order and dissecting the pretensions of his enemies.
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By Derek Turner and Erich J. Prince
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Short reviews of 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' by Robert Burton, and 'Working' by Robert A. Caro.
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American Gothic, a 1930 oil painting by Grant Wood (Art Institute of Chicago)
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'White Rural Rage' alleges hatred, bigotry, and utter depravity of white, rural, Christians with no real evidence. Of course, there is not a forthcoming 'Black Urban Rage.'
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Man with Glock 30 at Shooting Range (image from: Noah Wulf, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
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In 'Gun Curious,' a liberal academic who is also a gun owner attempts to locate common ground between left and right and create an area for genuine discussion.
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“The Landing of William Penn,” a 1932 oil painting depicting Penn’s 1682 landing, where he was greeted by a large group including American Indians. (J.L.G. Ferris / Library of Congress)
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'On Settler Colonialism' questions whether settler-colonial ideology is just the latest product of the demoralization of the Western world that has gone on since 1914 or whether it is an especially vicious and dangerous development.
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By James Baresel and Alexander Riley
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Short reviews of How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan by Amin Saikal, and Entrances and Exits, by Michael Richards.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Jonas Dassler, right) is confronted by a Nazi Gestapo officer in Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin. (Angel Studios)
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Angel Studios has lionized Dietrich Bonhoeffer into a spy and assassin. That's about as historically accurate as making Mahatma Gandhi into Rambo.
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A public demonstration demanding Sharia in Britain (image from: Gareth Davies from walthamstow, london, Uk, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
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England's invaders face less resistance than ever as they settle among an unarmed public led by self-hating flaccid clerks. This is how it ends.
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A helicopter drops water on the Kenneth Fire in the West Hills section of Los Angeles on Jan. 9, 2025. (Ethan Swope / Associated Press)
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One-party rule in California means fiscal lunacy, hazardous living conditions, and dubious elections, among other bad things.
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Osama Bin Laden (image from: UsamaLover222, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
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Mr. President, the danger of radical Islam is still with us, and while that danger cannot be completely eradicated, it is both possible and necessary to act decisively to reduce it as much as possible.
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A photo posted by Elon Musk in 2022 of the Twitter engineers left after he cut the company’s workforce by about 80 percent (@elonmusk / X.com)
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Trump's tech-titan friends clash with the MAGA base over high-skilled foreign labor. In truth, this clash was inevitable. The MAGA honeymoon was over before it began.
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Klemens von Metternich by Lawrence (image from: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, in the Public Domain, via PICRYL)
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Western nations could use a few Metternichs now. Instead we have midgets.
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