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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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: “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.
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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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
Penn Station Is a Battlefield in the Cold Civil War
Will we allow a new regime to build on the ruins of our own, or will we ensure that the next generation's landmarks are American ones?
Classical Architecture and the Future of New York
A new, classical Penn Station in New York would be a monument to the union of chutzpah and civic virtue that once made the city great.
The Bold Vision to Make Penn Station Great Again
Once upon a time, New York City had a train station worthy of the greatest city in America. With Trump's help, it can again.
Trump Can End the Weaponization of Team USA Sports
Existing oversight mechanisms establish federal authority to end the destructive Left's hijacking of national symbols.
Only Trump Can Make Penn Station Great Again
A plan to rebuild what was once the most beautiful transit hub in the world is worthy of both the president and America's greatest city.
Trump’s Mandate: A Masculine Renaissance
The 45th and 47th president has displayed the virtues necessary to lead men in war. Do American men have the virtues necessary to follow him?
How Trans Ideology Took America by Storm
The destructive Left's most outrageous cause is driven by power politics, new technology, the usual ideologies — and fear.