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John Wayne
“John Wayne is the United States of America. He is what they believe America to be.”
Known But to God
For the millions of Americans who visit The Tomb each year, the Changing of the Guard offers profound moral and political instruction.
I Kiss the Ground
You see in Capra’s films his lifelong love for the American common man. I “didn’t think he was common,” Capra said. “I thought he was the hope of the world."
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?
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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.
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.