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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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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.
Discipline at a Moment of Power
A movement that learns how to fight must also learn how to govern. The moment calls for discipline equal to the stakes.
O Captain, My Captain!
When Lincoln was among us, he said, “one of Plutarch’s men talked with us face to face.”
Playing ‘War’ at Sarah Lawrence
This may be the first generation of utopians who want to wage a revolution without spilling their lattes.
Why Conservatives Keep Losing School Boards
School board elections were rigged decades ago to steer public education toward the agenda of the destructive Left.
The University is the Engine of the Regime
The collapse of institutional performance has created a once-in-a-generation opening for structural reform.