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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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Understanding Donald Trump’s War
The economic nationalism the president has brought back into fashion asserts Founding principles against a revolutionary enemy.
A Summer Reading List for the Anti-Woke
A number of recent political books, and a few time-tested classics, can guide us through the present American crisis.
How to Free America from EU Censorship
President Trump and US leaders can take action to counter the chilling effect of EU regulations on Americans' online speech.
Against the Purity Spiral
To understand the rise of the destructive Left, we must understand the social mechanism that gives such a tiny minority such power.
Rogue Judges Undermine the Rule of Law
The gravest threat to our constitutional system comes from ultra-liberal judges with both the will and the power to destroy it from within.
Trump, Newsom, and the War for California
If the president can step in and enforce the law, as he did during last week's riots, he might even save the Union's crowning jewel.
Inside the Supreme Court’s Birthright Arguments
The universal injunctions now employed by activist judges represent a judicial supremacy that would have been familiar to Lincoln.
The Captive Mind Revisited
Why are intellectuals so willing to partake in totalitarian systems? From the Soviet Union to woke America, the patterns are the same.
What Comes Next Is Worse
The rise of artificial intelligence may enable totalitarian horrors that no twentieth-century intellectual could have contrived.
Forced to Be Free
The modern idea of perpetual progress and the modern reality of brutal state control are two sides of the same coin.
Possessed of the Dialectic
Complete cynicism and fundamental belief are not incompatible when the good of the cause is the sole criterion of moral action.
Mind-Forg’d Manacles: Why Intellectuals Conform
The phenomenon of radicalism in the intellectual elite stems as much from lack of courage as from sincere ideology.