What counts as a healthy society in America is a perennial concern. Today, as we live increasingly atomized lives, social cohesion and strengthening are more important than ever.
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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.
The Breaking Point of a Republic
The history of citizenship is not a simple story of inclusion and progress. It's also a story of strain.
The Necessary Limits of Mercy
Americans have always been unusually vulnerable to appeals framed in the language of mercy, equality, and procedural justice.
Affirmative Action: Our ‘Unslayable Ghoul’
No matter how often it is invalidated, condemned, or banned, it returns — reshaped, renamed, and newly justified.
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The Identity Question We Can’t Avoid
Eventually, fractured individuals lead to fractured communities, and a fractured country. I, myself, felt fractured all the time.
How Group Quotas Lost in California
The failure of affirmative action initiatives even in deep blue California has lessons for the rest of America.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This Neutered Isle: Britain After Britain
The United Kingdom is a cautionary tale of what happens to a country that does not fight for freedom, its people, or their way of life.
The Arc of History Bends Toward Thoughtcrime
The "right side of history" is one of the destructive Left's most powerful tools of control. But nobody knows what the future really holds.
The American Way of Life Is Under Threat
The radical Left and the mainstream Democratic Party share a utopian vision that is incompatible with the American way of life.
“Radical Evil” and the Totalitarian Temptation
The essential books of the anti-totalitarian tradition risk appropriation in service of a new, woke expression of the totalitarian impulse.