It is the folly of intellectuals to both dismiss and, on the other hand, overstate the effect of popular culture on America and her citizens. If politics is indeed downstream of culture, a more precise, dispassionate analysis of current treads is needed.
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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.
America Has Too Much of the Wrong Elitism
What we need is the right combination of book learning and clear-eyed common sense.
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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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.
Norman Podhoretz (1930–2025)
Norman was proud of what he had accomplished, but was he a great man? He wasn’t asking me. He was looking heavenward.
The Left and Its Devil
Having rejected God, nature, and tradition, the enlightened sophisticates of the Left soon confronted a terrifying emptiness in their souls.
The Death of the Ford Tradition
The EV push was never about market demand. It was about compliance. My family’s story proves what we lost.
Woke Hasn’t Died. It Has Regrouped.
After retreating to lick its wounds, the vanquished opponent almost immediately began to resurface.
Washington
Great men are the ambassadors of Providence sent to reveal to their fellow men their unknown selves.
O Captain, My Captain!
When Lincoln was among us, he said, “one of Plutarch’s men talked with us face to face.”
How to Win the Information War
Once we got answers to the right questions, that’s when the real wins started piling up.
The Right Needs a Tech Philosophy
If all we offer the culture is barking “no” at new technologies, the progressive technopoly will remain firmly in place.
The Mob Now Guards the Marble
The revolutionaries who toppled bronze generals now clutch their pearls over a ballroom renovation.
Pope Leo’s Borderless Gospel
Pope Leo XIV’s borderless gospel recasts globalism as compassion, emptying “pro-life” of all meaning.
Language Without Mind
The problem isn't that these machines are evil. It’s that they’re not us.