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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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Zohran Mamdani and the Family Business
The academic fixation on 'settler colonialism' leads directly and necessarily to the political commitment to destroying America.
The Public Lands Paradox
Federal lands open to the common citizen a kind of freedom once restricted to the aristocracy — but at a steep cost.
Our Post-Deportation Future
Peachy Keenan surveys the scene from Los Angeles and muses on the nation we will have once the invasion is repelled.
What’s Behind the War on America’s Borders?
The open-borders agenda, whether dressed up in leftist, libertarian, or corporate garb, is an assault on nationhood and self-government.
No, Zohran Mamdani Is Not the Democrats’ Future
The real threat to the American way of life comes not from the communist chic set, but from the radicals who appeal to middle America.
The War Against Managerial Rule
Everything President Trump does must be understood as a campaign against the managerial thinking that has taken hold on both Left and Right.
Democracy Gave Birth to Managerialism
The bureaucratic class that now controls the vast majority of Western society did not take power by force. They were voted in.
Science at the End of History
Our problem is not a managerialism that fears the human soul, but a rational state devoted to liberating the autonomous self.
Managerialism Means the End of Democracy
The trouble in the West is not "populism" but the system of anti-democratic control against which populists rebel.
What, to the New York Times, Is the Fourth of July?
The principles of the founding are a universal moral standard, or they are an exercise in rank hypocrisy. The Times cannot have it both ways.
How Trump Can Prepare Our Schools for America’s 250th
The president can use his bully pulpit and the Department of Education to correct the record on our history and heritage.
Anti-White Racism Endures at Lockheed Martin
The false justice of the destructive Left, ordered around group outcome equality, still reigns in much of America.