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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Thanksgiving: The End of an Empire
In the beginnings of our nation among the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag, we may see a gruesome prefiguration of its end.
The Middle Way of American Equality
Our tradition of justice shuns the dangerous extremes of utopian equity, unjust hierarchy, and materialistic liberalism.
The UK Is a Window to Our Dystopian Future
Across the Atlantic, we see the fate of a nation that imports hostile populations while removing the means of democratic dissent.
Mass Deportations Are Not Enough
A policy that honors Trump's mandate will protect wages and repair civic bonds by reducing legal immigration, too.
The Tyranny of Equality
It took only a few generations to move from a limited to an unlimited application of the egalitarian principle in the United States.
‘Race Realism’ Won’t Save America
To respond to the existential threat of wokeness with mere IQ data is both a strategic and a philosophic error.
Equality Is America’s Inheritance
The great achievement of the American Revolution was to insist that the people are sovereign.
An Anti-Woke Agenda for the US Military
Any effort to reform the Armed Forces will be meaningless without structural, statutory changes to their leadership.
How the Department of Defense Went Woke
We must understand the winding road by which DEI overtook the Armed Forces if we hope to reverse our course back down it.
The Crisis in the Armed Forces
The decline in military standards is directly linked to the Pentagon's racial and gender preference policies.
Inequality As a Right-Wing Principle
The political equality enjoyed by citizens should not be construed as a universal proposition, Paul Gottfried argues.
The Beginning and End of Postmodern America
The contemporary left is a half-Nietzschean monstrosity, rejecting the morality but not the messianic impulse of the Western tradition.