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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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America’s Woke Totalitarianism
In the spring of 2022, Gabriel Schoenfeld noted that “in one of those remarkable inversions of…
Group Quotas Are Not In Danger
The recent Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action are unlikely to completely abolish affirmative action (group quotas), as elite opinion on…
Slow Horses: A Must Watch
I like British crime series, a genre in which the Brits put their Yankee cousins to shame.
A Primer On Wokeism
Say no to the Woke Revolution. A lot of people want to convince you that you need a Ph.D. or…
They Can’t Let Trump Back In
The people who really run the United States of America have made it clear that they can’t,…
The Hour Is Getting Late
America today exists in a state of war, a cold civil war. On one side is the Woke…
Woke Plagiarism
Claudine Gay’s plagiarism isn’t a matter of ‘inadequate citation.’ It was straightforward theft. Harvard says it will…
Trump Says He Will End Birthright Citizenship
If given their way, the ruling classes will abolish the sovereignty of the American people. The defining conflict of our…
Podhoretz’s Kissinger
When he died on November 29, 2023, Henry Kissinger had been one of the dominant voices in American…
My Opponents Are Cowards
A conversation with Republican Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. Tom Klingenstein: Let’s get down to brass tacks. How do you pronounce…
Hamas and Woke Tyranny
Help Israel defeat Hamas. Support SoldiersSaveLives.org, for Israel’s sake, and America’s, too. Friends of Israel in America and…
To Rescue a Nation
Like any other way of life based on self-rule, ours can be re-founded only by the people themselves. …