The obsession the left is now exhibiting with questions of due process in immigration cases is, in fact, a thin veneer covering their naked aggression against the legal tradition that created it.
Tag: the Left
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What Happened to the Left That Hated the Deep State?
There once was a time when the critics of the deep state were on the left. Their transformation into its lackeys is as fascinating as it is disturbing.
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Is Luigi Mangione the Left’s Donald Trump?
The left increasingly channels its emotions away from politics and into street actions and violent fantasies.
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How Can the Left Ignore Freeman Dyson and Elon Musk?
One-time heroes of science and technology become pariahs to the left when their observations become politically inconvenient.
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New College of Florida’s Disastrous Stanley Fish Indulgence
Stanley Fish’s promotion of Judith Butler shows how well-meaning but muddled liberals end up protecting our captured institutions from democratic discourse and accountability, often in the name of “defending democracy.”
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The Spirited Right Must Unite Around Consent
It will not do for the right to make lazy appeals to tradition when the American tradition now includes a long history of support for the administrative state.
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The Censorious American Right
The trick of identifying those on the uncooperative right as being “woke right” or leftists in disguise is deployed for no other reason than to keep us out of the conversation.
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America First: Settling the War in Ukraine
In putting America first, President Trump is not aligning with Russia but with what is best for our people and the world.
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Trump Pulls the Rip Cords on the Administrative State
Members of the vast apparatus of the American bureaucracy need to internalize this constitutional truth: There is no fourth branch of the federal government.
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Joe Biden’s Sudden Onset Fanaticism
Like many on the left, Joe Biden initially embraced woke ideology opportunistically, but eventually became a true believer.
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Jan. 6, 2021: A Day That Will Live in Hymnody
The resistance to tyranny is something to sing about.
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There’s No Such Thing As the ‘Woke Right’
The “woke right” concept seems to be little more than the latest way to marginalize the real right.
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The Last Ugly Biden Christmas
We can be thankful this Christmas knowing it is Jill Biden’s last year to decorate the White House for the holidays.
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Christopher Rufo’s Dangerous Wishful Thinking
A friendly rebuttal to the idea that the right can declare victory against wokeism and the leftist ideology that inspired it. The battle is not over.
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Childless Cat Ladies for Law and Order
The conditions that led one woman to renounce her long record of voting for Democrats and supporting the left.
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Remedies for Post-Election Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth
When politics becomes an idol, our disappointment can grind us into dust when it fails us. Here are some suggestions for the afflicted.
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Freedom of Political Expression Only Goes One Way
Despite Donald Trump’s victory last week, supporters and voters on the right remain less likely than those on the left to be open about their political leanings.
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Kamala Harris’s Contrived Candidacy
The manufactured identity of Kamala Harris is typical of how our elites hollow out all our most valuable institutions.
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What the Left Calls Voting Rights Cheapens Your Vote
The left’s incessant call to make voting easier is really about making it trivial and unimportant.
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What’s the Matter With Men?
Men have come to understand that it’s rarely in their interest to intervene on behalf of justice, order, or civilization.
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What’s In a Name?
Commentators and politicians on both the left and the right engage in sloppy and imprecise usage of the terms “fascist” and “Communist.”
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‘One Percenter’ Barack Obama Hopes to Rescue the Hapless Harris
The one we have been waiting for is back on the campaign trail, this time to shill for Kamala Harris and secure his virtual fourth term.
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Why Jews Aren’t Joining Forces With the American Right
American Jews may be at unease with the growing acceptance of literal jihadis as a loyal Democratic client base, but they are certainly not turning to the right.
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The Left’s Word Games Can’t Conceal ‘Third World’ Impact of Open Borders
The left wants to make an issue of Trump’s choice of words in calling what’s happened to our cities “Third World.” The issue is the loss of life caused by Harris’s open border.
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The Amy Wax Inflection Point for ‘Elite’ Higher Education
The Amy Wax struggle session shows that the process is the real punishment. And the indignity is the whole point.
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Trump’s Would-Be Assassin’s Explanation
If Democrats don’t weigh their words more carefully, more violence will follow from the likes of Ryan Routh.
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Why Are the Nutjobs Trying to Kill Political Opponents All Left-Wingers?
The Left has had a violent streak going back at least as far as Karl Marx's calls for a global revolution of the proletariat—and the French Revolution even before that.
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Tim Walz: Joker Clown
The Democratic nominee for vice president has a record of lies, exaggeration, and disgrace to match his bizarre mannerisms and behavior.
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The Greatest Psy-Op in the History of American Electoral Politics
The ultimate battle between corporate and social media has been a long time coming. The outcome will decide much more than the 2024 election.
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A Postcard from Manchester
The horrors of immigrant violence and the reaction of the UK government to the outrage of its citizens ought to be a lesson for Americans.
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What ‘Black’ Really Means to the Left
Kamala Harris’s ancestry matters less to the left in defining her than does Harris’s consistently woke politics which, for them, is part and parcel of black identity.
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The Right’s ‘Rocky’ Redux: The Tide Is Turning
The June debate between Biden and Trump was that Rocky moment when the opponent was sent bloodied and reeling back to his corner. But the fight is by no means over.
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J.D. Vance and Childless Cat Ladies: Cue the Outrage
Every news cycle spent on castigating J.D. Vance for his “childless cat ladies” comment is one less news cycle spent on the outrageous radical beliefs of Vice President Kamala Harris.
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The Left Belies Its Commitment to ‘Democracy’
The progressive base claims to abhor authoritarianism; in reality, it hungers not only to govern others, but to be governed.
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Left-wing Normies Have Been Radicalized
It’s time for normal people on the left to take stock of the people and ideas they are supporting. The vicious tribalism they support is leading to contempt for and violence against their fellow citizens.
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Election Year Smoke and Mirrors Magic from the Left
A notable decline in the antics of far-left oddballs suggests they’ve received an order from on high to cool it.
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Donald Trump Is a Legend
Trump has taken massive hits for his years in public service. Now he’s survived an assassination attempt and got up and walked away. He is a legend.
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How Conservatives Can Finally Get Judicial Nominations Right
It is past time that conservatives actually play to win at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Western ‘Colonialism,’ Israel, and Anti-Semitism
What really explains the repeated historical periods of hostility toward Israel and the Jews.
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Now Is Not the Time for Indifference
Freedom now hangs in the balance in America. Staying alert and knowing what’s at stake are key in this fight for liberty.
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The Place Beyond the Ruins
Things are bound to get much worse in America before and if they get better. That is why we all need our “Two-Hearted River” beyond the ruins.
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It Is Up to Us to Begin the End of Our Culture’s Insanity
The typhoon causing our present-day cultural and political ruination was a storm gathering strength for decades. It will take at least as many decades to restore America as were required for its destruction.
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How I Single-Handedly Spiked a Hollywood Hit Job
Think one pissed-off conservative can’t take on leftist Hollywood and win? Read on.
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The Two Surest Signs of the Totalitarian Impulse
Two of the truest marks of a totalitarian regime are its claim to know your thoughts better than you do, and its demand for the coercive power to “correct” your thought.
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Limits and Hope: Against the Anti-Tragedy Agenda of the Left
Once the right allowed the left to frame politics as the avoidance of tragedy, they lost the game. We’d do well to reconsider what Christopher Lasch called the “limits and hope” of politics.
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Is Common Sense Realism Making a Comeback?
The real battle being fought in America today is not between the right and the left. It is a battle between common sense and nonsense.
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The Vietnam Era Never Ended for Biden’s Party
The Democratic party only has papered over its contradictions ever since 1968. Today’s campus protests have ripped off the wrapper, and they’re forcing on Biden a choice he can’t, or won’t, make.
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‘Remember Us’: How to Fight Media Bombholing
A victim of media “bombholing” explains how the media drive their ratings and profits by publishing an unending series of wild, unsubstantiated stories, never stopping to correct the ones that came before.
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Foreign Policy Splits the Parties
When it comes to foreign policy America’s two political parties are split—not so much against each other—but against themselves.