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March 1, 2025February 20, 2025View

Time to Topple the Fourteenth Amendment

The Fourteenth Amendment is not a beatific and integral part of some mythical “Second Founding.” Indeed, it undermines republican government.

Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, French Revolution, Jacobins, Conservatives, tradition

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June 1, 2024June 3, 2024Remembering the Right

Remembering Edmund Burke

by Bruce P. Frohnen

Edmund Burke warned that the state seeking to re-order society tends to destroy the natural associations that alone make people decent citizens.

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January 1, 2023February 17, 2023Reviews

Clap & Trap

by John Lukacs

John Lukacs dissects the self-important claim that after the fall of the Soviet Union, world history would culminate in the inevitable acceptance of the American “liberal democratic” model worldwide.