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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Equality, Justice, and the American Revolution
Totalitarian regimes are founded in a social Darwinism against which Lincoln and the Founding Fathers stood.
The Heresy of Equality: M.E. Bradford Replies to Harry Jaffa
Can the Declaration's promise of equality be read as both a universal proposition and a constitutional principle?…
Equality As a Conservative Principle
The American regime is rooted in the belief, made explicit in the Declaration, that all men are free and equal…
Inequality As a Left-Wing Principle
A 50-year-old exchange between two conservative intellectual giants sheds light on the pressing questions of today.
America Is Not a Racist Country
Charles Murray believes that Americans must face up to reality, or risk losing the republic as we know it.
Is Our Economy Totalitarian?
Government has a necessary but limited role in sustaining free markets.
In Search of an American Aristocracy
Regime change was made possible by the installation of a global elite in place of our republic's natural aristocracy.
Steve Sailer Loves America
Charles Murray argues that the right-wing controversialist's position is "anti-racism properly understood."…
Power Without Responsibility
The despotism of the 21st century is unique in that its tyrants, from the experts of the state down to the mob, are all faceless.
A New Regime Is Taking Over Our Military
Most military members are offered more opportunities to attend pride-focused events than opportunities to train at a rifle range.
Only One Constitution Can Survive
A new book highlights the contrast between the founders’ Constitution and its Progressive alternative.
The Virtues of Settler Colonialism
The virtues that enabled our forebears to tame this continent are the same ones that victory in the present conflict…