For years, American politics have been defined by the the rapid advance of an enemy — variously labeled as “wokeness,” DEI, the “civil rights regime,” the deep state, and more — and the occasional, often ineffective pushback of Republicans. With Donald Trump’s return to the White House, that enemy seems clearly in retreat.
Have we really won? Is the Right simply letting its guard down? Leading conservative voices weigh in here.
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What Happened to Greatness?
Greatness is waning. Does the fault lie with the culture at large or the elites charged with shaping it?
Response to Ellmers
Students and parents are well aware of the repressive tendency Ellmers identifies, of the ideological literati littering our college campuses.
America at Her Best: A Tribute to Clarence Thomas
If this great man, with firsthand knowledge of the worst of America, forgives his country, then might we forgive her, too?
How to Be an Elitist
What matters is that we educate the young for greatness, regardless of whether they will ever encounter opportunities for it.
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Trump v. Affirmative Action
Many now believe that, after generations of persistence, affirmative action is finally about to die. They're wrong.
Republicans Aren’t Striking While the Iron Is Hot
The party's failure to build on Trump's momentum will allow the woke regime to reorganize and strike back even harder.
Elite Holdouts Will Keep Wokeness Alive
Pockets of wokeness among the elite will enable the threat to reemerge once the horrors of the last few years have faded from memory.
Wokeism Was Defeated in November
Josh Hammer argues the combination of Trump's use of power and the public's abandonment of wokeness means the enemy really is defeated.