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How Sleep the Brave
It is hard in easy going times to imagine what it could mean to face such an extremity: a mother forced to contemplate fleeing with her four children, pursued by hostile armies.
John Wayne
“John Wayne is the United States of America. He is what they believe America to be.”
Known But to God
For the millions of Americans who visit The Tomb each year, the Changing of the Guard offers profound moral and political instruction.
I Kiss the Ground
You see in Capra’s films his lifelong love for the American common man. I “didn’t think he was common,” Capra said. “I thought he was the hope of the world."
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How Sleep the Brave
It is hard in easy going times to imagine what it could mean to face such an extremity: a mother forced to contemplate fleeing with her four children, pursued by hostile armies.
John Wayne
“John Wayne is the United States of America. He is what they believe America to be.”
Known But to God
For the millions of Americans who visit The Tomb each year, the Changing of the Guard offers profound moral and political instruction.
I Kiss the Ground
You see in Capra’s films his lifelong love for the American common man. I “didn’t think he was common,” Capra said. “I thought he was the hope of the world."
Intellectual Conservatism Needs Fighters to Survive
Must conservatives play nicely with their liberal colleagues, while we critique and castigate each other whenever and however we please?
The Reader Forum: ‘How Many Democrats Wish Trump Had Been Killed?’
How many Democrat politicians wish the assassin had killed Trump? How many Americans? It is the central question.
American Moses
This story appears annually at tomklingenstein.com on April 23, in commemoration of 250 years—and counting—of American independence.
The Reader Forum: “The System Keeping Affirmative Action Alive”
The courts have ruled, the presidents have rotated, and the affirmative action regime has adapted to every one of them.
Paul Revere’s Ride
When Longfellow published “Paul Revere’s Ride,” few Americans remained who had a living memory of the American Revolution.
Norman Podhoretz (1930–2025)
Norman was proud of what he had accomplished, but was he a great man? He wasn’t asking me. He was looking heavenward.
The Merit Restoration Problem
The Secretary must persist. The American military belongs to the nation, not to an ideology.
We Are All Americans
By the morning of April 9, Lee had concluded that “there is nothing left me to do but to go and see General Grant, and I would rather die a thousand deaths.”