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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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The SAVE America Act Fight is Political Theater
Republicans have every political incentive to force a resolution. Instead, they are letting Democrats run out the clock.
The Reader Forum: “Why Won’t the Right Acknowledge the War?”
Tom’s question struck a nerve with readers who see the Right’s refusal to acknowledge the political war as its most dangerous vulnerability.
Red States Hold the Key to Deportations
This is a national effort. The President cannot carry it out from Washington alone, nor should he be expected to do so.
The Left and Its Devil
Having rejected God, nature, and tradition, the enlightened sophisticates of the Left soon confronted a terrifying emptiness in their souls.
The Death of the Ford Tradition
The EV push was never about market demand. It was about compliance. My family’s story proves what we lost.
The Reader Forum: “Privilege Meets Delusion”
The frustration isn't with young people per se — it’s with the institutions that taught them to confuse lawlessness with courage.
The Necessary Limits of Mercy
Americans have always been unusually vulnerable to appeals framed in the language of mercy, equality, and procedural justice.
Woke Hasn’t Died. It Has Regrouped.
After retreating to lick its wounds, the vanquished opponent almost immediately began to resurface.
Washington
Great men are the ambassadors of Providence sent to reveal to their fellow men their unknown selves.
Affirmative Action: Our ‘Unslayable Ghoul’
No matter how often it is invalidated, condemned, or banned, it returns — reshaped, renamed, and newly justified.
Classical Education Needs the Body
When our students feel the difference between effort and ease, they're learning in the most fundamental way possible.
The Reader Forum: “What Does the Party Stand For?”
Each week, we ask our readers on X a question of profound importance to our nation and society.