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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.
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This Neutered Isle: Britain After Britain
The United Kingdom is a cautionary tale of what happens to a country that does not fight for freedom, its people, or their way of life.
The Arc of History Bends Toward Thoughtcrime
The "right side of history" is one of the destructive Left's most powerful tools of control. But nobody knows what the future really holds.
The American Way of Life Is Under Threat
The radical Left and the mainstream Democratic Party share a utopian vision that is incompatible with the American way of life.
Out With the Old
The generation of the Floyd riots, the COVID lockdowns, and so many other evils is dying off or aging out of politics.
The War on Trump’s Lawyers Is a War on America
If John Eastman can be persecuted for legal advice while Big Law activists are given privileged status, the First Amendment is lost.
DOGE Is Downstream of the Real Problem
To regain control and preserve our way of life will require not just a crusade against waste but a revival of federalism.
“Radical Evil” and the Totalitarian Temptation
The essential books of the anti-totalitarian tradition risk appropriation in service of a new, woke expression of the totalitarian impulse.
The Poisoned Ivies: Why Fixing Harvard Matters
We need to get Harvard under control, not just because it wastes our tax dollars, but because it spends them on our enemies.
Penn Station Is a Battlefield in the Cold Civil War
Will we allow a new regime to build on the ruins of our own, or will we ensure that the next generation's landmarks are American ones?
Classical Architecture and the Future of New York
A new, classical Penn Station in New York would be a monument to the union of chutzpah and civic virtue that once made the city great.
The Lesson of Lincoln
In the example of a nation divided against itself, then reunited, there are enduring lessons on both sides of the divide.
George Soros: The Man and His Empire
To understand the destructive Left, we must understand the man whose billions have helped launch it to power.