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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It’s Time to Talk About the Trouble With Young Women
The left-wing grievance politics of college-educated young women are distinctive to that bloc and destructive to the country.
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.
Wokeism Can Return Just As Easily As It Left
The authority Trump has wielded is a double-edged sword, and the Democrats could return to power with a vengeance.
The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now
Wokeness stems from the replacement of "good" and "evil" with "Progress" and "Reaction," just like the worst regimes of the 20th century.
The Revolution Isn’t Over
Even with Trump in office, most of the conditions that drove the onslaught of the destructive Left have not been resolved.
Lessons from the Spanish Civil War
We must look beyond our own history to understand the enemy we face and the means by which that enemy might be opposed.
The War on Wokeness Is Not Over
Patriotic Americans cannot declare victory over the woke totalitarianism that still threatens their way of life.
Putting America First Means Putting Americans First
The universality of our founding principles does not override the primacy of our government's duty to its own citizens.
How Group Quotas Transformed the CIA
Under the best of circumstances, it is difficult for any intelligence service to collect, analyze, and produce actionable,…
How the Left’s Lies Undermine Democracy
Most of our political debate isn't debate at all, but a rhetorical parade of emptied symbols. And that seems to be the plan.