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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What Does Cornell Teach?
The “My Body, Myself” mantra is now deeply entrenched in American culture, especially among adolescents.
The Enemy Within
Our rights, natural or not, are never delivered to us. We must insist upon them. The Declaration of Independence was also a Declaration of War.
The Founders’ Capital and a Century of Neglect
L’Enfant’s 1791 proposal was elegant, considered, and bold: a grand Baroque scheme that overlays streets with broad avenues radiating from the Congress House and President’s Palace.
Trump v. Affirmative Action
Many now believe that, after generations of persistence, affirmative action is finally about to die. They're wrong.
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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…
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.
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.