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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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It’s Not a “Both Sides” Problem
Charlie Kirk’s murder rips away the mask: "It's both sides" was always a lie.
Hold On
The reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death reveals a culture where barbarism is virtue and sanity itself is under siege.
Don’t Let the Cold Civil War Turn Hot
Charlie Kirk embodied everything our enemy seeks to destroy.
Restoring the Mind of the Republic
Civic thought programs are emerging as a bold answer to the destructive Left’s grip on American higher education.
The Permanent MAGA Majority (Pt.2)
Collapsing Democratic strongholds point to an authentic America First majority, one that's poised to inaugurate a new American Century.
The Permanent MAGA Majority (Pt. 1)
The Supreme Court, 2030 Census, and America First movement are reshaping our nation top to bottom — bringing a close to the bitter culture war.
Can America’s Cities Survive the Left?
The Left’s refusal to see criminals as criminals has hollowed out the morale in our great cities, leaving ordinary citizens unprotected and order itself in retreat.
The Identity Question We Can’t Avoid
Eventually, fractured individuals lead to fractured communities, and a fractured country. I, myself, felt fractured all the time.
How the Left Stole the American Stage
The progressive Left has turned American theater into a monument to groupthink.
DEI Won’t Just Go Away
The culture of our federal agencies needs to be reformed from top to bottom if we want to kill DEI for good.
Are Republicans Ready for Political War?
The openness that helped the GOP expand across racial and ideological lines could become its greatest weakness.
How Group Quotas Lost in California
The failure of affirmative action initiatives even in deep blue California has lessons for the rest of America.