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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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Four Ways to Tame the Administrative State
To get the nation's woke bureaucracy under control, we must reform the systems that educate its foot soldiers.
Only Trump Can Make Penn Station Great Again
A plan to rebuild what was once the most beautiful transit hub in the world is worthy of both the president and America's greatest city.
JD Vance and the European Crisis
The vice president's Munich speech disturbed Europe's elite because it drew battle lines in an enduring contest for the soul of the West.
Republicans Aren’t Striking While the Iron Is Hot
The party's failure to build on Trump's momentum will allow the woke regime to reorganize and strike back even harder.
Elite Holdouts Will Keep Wokeness Alive
Pockets of wokeness among the elite will enable the threat to reemerge once the horrors of the last few years have faded from memory.
Wokeism Was Defeated in November
Josh Hammer argues the combination of Trump's use of power and the public's abandonment of wokeness means the enemy really is defeated.
Wokeism Can Return Just As Easily As It Left
The authority Trump has wielded is a double-edged sword, and the Democrats could return to power with a vengeance.
Trump’s Mandate: A Masculine Renaissance
The 45th and 47th president has displayed the virtues necessary to lead men in war. Do American men have the virtues necessary to follow him?
Will AI Spell the End of Human Supremacy?
Preserving our way of life means preserving the natural order, but it also requires using new technologies in service of what is good.
Trump Is Right About Birthright Citizenship
A response to John Yoo on the president's executive order and the meaning, history, and purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Trump Should Put Bureaucrats Through Re-Education
A crash course in American principles could help break the programming of the enemy regime's foot soldiers.
How Trans Ideology Took America by Storm
The destructive Left's most outrageous cause is driven by power politics, new technology, the usual ideologies — and fear.