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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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How to Win the Information War
Once we got answers to the right questions, that’s when the real wins started piling up.
The Long Game in the Legal Academy
Conservatives have often lacked the strategic sense to build mission-oriented institutions. We must change that.
American New Year
Winter has turned to spring, summer to fall, and back to winter. This cosmic new beginning inspires a kind of Napoleonic ambition.
Antifa: The Paramilitary Vanguard of the Cold Civil War
Tax-exempt charitable foundations funnel their support for Antifa radicals through a maze of middlemen and misdirection.
American Christmas
Over the generations, out of many ways of celebrating or ignoring Christmas, came a recognizably American way.
The Corporate Press Is an Arm of the Destructive Left
Legacy institutions and prestige journalists see themselves as active, leading participants in America's woke revolution.
What ‘Diversity Is Our Strength’ Really Means
The vicious cycle of replacement immigration creates societies at once less stable and less free. That's the point.
Days to Remember
“No date in the long history of freedom means more to liberty-loving men ... than the fifteenth day of December 1791.”
The Right Needs a Tech Philosophy
If all we offer the culture is barking “no” at new technologies, the progressive technopoly will remain firmly in place.
When the Melting Pot Stops Working
The "melting pot" is an insultingly reductive analogy that ignores what the Founders knew: our experiment is fragile.
Protect Those Who Power the Cause
Ideas alone don't win elections, nor do they win political or cultural fights. To sustain the movement at large, the GOP needs money.
Pearl Harbor and the Art of Peace
Next to the people themselves, the land they live on is the most fundamental and necessary material condition of political life.