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The Founders’ Capital and a Century of Neglect
L’Enfant’s 1791 proposal was elegant, considered, and bold: a grand Baroque scheme that overlays streets with broad avenues radiating from the Congress House and President’s Palace.
It’s Time for the Right to Return Fire
Leaving Lawfare to the Left has been a big mistake. It's time to return fire.
Ninety Percent Mental
Yogi was a Big Leaguer and an American Leaguer, but he was no Ivy-Leaguer.
Constitution Day
This was the end of one historic deliberation, but it was the beginning of another.
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Trump, Newsom, and the War for California
If the president can step in and enforce the law, as he did during last week's riots, he might even save the Union's crowning jewel.
Inside the Supreme Court’s Birthright Arguments
The universal injunctions now employed by activist judges represent a judicial supremacy that would have been familiar to Lincoln.
The Captive Mind Revisited
Why are intellectuals so willing to partake in totalitarian systems? From the Soviet Union to woke America, the patterns are the same.
What Comes Next Is Worse
The rise of artificial intelligence may enable totalitarian horrors that no twentieth-century intellectual could have contrived.
Forced to Be Free
The modern idea of perpetual progress and the modern reality of brutal state control are two sides of the same coin.
Possessed of the Dialectic
Complete cynicism and fundamental belief are not incompatible when the good of the cause is the sole criterion of moral action.
Mind-Forg’d Manacles: Why Intellectuals Conform
The phenomenon of radicalism in the intellectual elite stems as much from lack of courage as from sincere ideology.
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.