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July 15, 2025
The Damnation of Israel and Other Musings in the American ConservativeIs the intimation that the one very small Jewish nation is America’s enemy and that any American caring for it shows disloyalty not intolerance? If not, then what is?
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June 15, 2025
Cutting Off Israel for Its Own Good?The American Conservative tries to make a case for Trump abandoning the Jewish State. The result leaves a lot to be desired.
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April 30, 2025
Day of InfamyIf there is a “lesson of Vietnam,” it is that there can be no half-waging of war, for it guarantees “prolonged indecision.”
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April 29, 2024
Peter Beinart vs. Israel and the JewsPeter Beinart tells American Jews (those calling themselves themselves liberals, at any rate) to oppose the continued existence of a Jewish nation and homeland in the Mideast.
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February 17, 2024
The Silent Radio: A Third Year Without RushRush Limbaugh is gone, but life is possible, and victory is possible. America is worth fighting for, and we are worth fighting for as well.
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February 14, 2024
What Does an Insurrection Look Like?The January 6 events at the Capitol, so inimical to “our democracy,” greatly disturbed the Democrats.
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November 6, 2023
About those Obama 'thoughts on Israel and Gaza'...Obama thinks he can give Israel 'advice.' With his record, he shouldn't.
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September 5, 2023
Galston's Law: Misconstruing the 'Stop the Woke' ActFlorida's 'Stop the Woke' Act plainly is intended to protect students and teachers from the proselytization and harangue for which purveyors of Critical Race Theory in universities are known.
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September 27, 2022
Orban the Terrible and American ConservatismAll accounts of American conservatism’s decline since the “good old days” have in common the same deficiency. Their authors never consider how the Left changed first.
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August 31, 2022
What Jonah Goldberg gets wrong on the Mar-a-Lago raidA "thought experiment" that fails.
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February 21, 2022
What Liz Cheney doesn't get about the ConstitutionHer loathing of Donald Trump forever incandescent, Rep. Liz Cheney's defense of the January 6 Committee doesn't hold water.
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September 29, 2021
Afghanistan: What Comes of Limited WarAny war will become “endless” and “unwinnable” if the commanders choose to wage it by halves.
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May 12, 2021
When Pundits Express Joy at Derek Chauvin's Conviction"A kind of triumph," intoned Peggy Noonan. Whatever happened to due process?
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February 5, 2021
The True 'Citadel of Democracy' Is Not the Capitol. It's You.If the ordinary citizen, who loves freedom and exhibits the virtues of citizenship necessary to uphold it, is the "foundation of democracy," then the battered foundation holds still.
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July 4, 2020
Trump's Choice, and the Conflicting Voices from the RightTo save the cities from themselves, or to let them fry in their own blue elixirs?
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February 21, 2020
Dershowitz's Critics on the RightThe reckless use of impeachment, removing the leader chosen by the American people at the ballot box because of policy differences and partisan hatred, is itself a threat to national security.
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December 28, 2019
Patriotism and 'Impartiality'Those who make a display of their detachment from the struggle that now grips America and proclaim their scrupulous consistency in condemning both sides engage in a self-parody.
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September 16, 2019
An Atlantic Magazine Liberal's Jaw-Dropping Attempt to Redefine 'Conservative'Andrew Sullivan is a "conservative," which represents a virtuous mean between the extremes of "liberal" and "reactionary." Right...
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May 30, 2019
Donald Trump Is Fighting for Free Speech. Professors Who Hate Him, Take Note.Hostility to conservatives and conservative speech is the rule today in American universities. Only the president is doing something about it.
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March 5, 2019
Why Does the NY Times Despise Moderates?Moderation, though not "centrism," was, until our age, understood to be a virtue. Do we still regard it as such?
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February 11, 2019
The Devil and Ross DouthatA recent piece by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, “The Covington Scissor,” presents a dialogue between him and a mysterious Voice, which he finds “devilish.”
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November 20, 2018
The 14th Amendment and the ConstitutionThe veneration of the Constitution and the fulfillment of its purposes are as much in the interest of lawful immigrants as of anyone else.
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November 13, 2017
George W. Bush Finally Criticizes Another PresidentFor those of us who venerate President Bush’s leadership in the months after September 11, there is no pleasure in taking exception to what he chooses to say now.
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October 12, 2017
On the 'Vulgar Manliness' of Donald TrumpProminent members of the conservative intellectual class have turned against Donald Trump with disdain.
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August 30, 2017
Doctor Krauthammer's Peculiar GuardrailsHe rejoices that the "guardrails" of our democracy have held against the imminent threat to it: President Trump.
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August 7, 2017
The 'Independent Thinkers' Who All Oppose TrumpThe American people, for good or ill, chose to pass the burden of the Republic on to Donald Trump. It is past time for members of his own party, at least, to support him.
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March 20, 2017
Do liberals really condemn the Middlebury outrage?Several prominent liberals have felt compelled to write in condemnation of it. But their view of conservatives and conservative positions is not fundamentally different from that of the rabble who attacked Murray and his colleague.
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December 31, 2016
Trump, the New York Times, and the Constitution: Who Needs an Education?The putative Paper of Record attempts to lecture our incoming president on the virtues of flag-burning as free speech.
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November 25, 2016
Our Betters: Trump Must Now Exercise 'Magnanimity' toward DemocratsVictory in the coming term means overcoming the Democrats, not accommodating them.
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October 26, 2016
Another Time for ChoosingWhat will be left of liberty if eight years of Obama are followed by four or eight years of Clinton?
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October 5, 2016
Of Prudence and Principle: Ted Cruz Endorses Donald TrumpEndorsing Trump was compromise for the sake of advancing conservative goals, or preventing the complete dominance of socialist ones.
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June 25, 2016
The Fractured Conservatism of Yuval LevinA new book calling for conservatives' capitulation has garnered praise in venues including The New York Post and The Wall Street Journal.
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April 13, 2016
In Defense of the Voters...Even if Trump Is WinningShould the success of Mr. Donald Trump in the Republican nomination contest make us despair of our people's capacity to govern themselves?
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January 23, 2016
Michael Gerson, Trump-basher, and the soul of the Republican PartyTrump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) lives!
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January 3, 2016
So Democrats Love America More than Republicans?That's the thesis of Washington Post writer E.J. Dionne.
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October 11, 2015
'Annuit Coeptis': Wondering if God Still Smiles on UsThe United States has become a nation that tolerates the killing and dissection of babies.
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July 4, 2015
Of Malice, Charity And The Confederate Battle FlagThe contemporary Left in the face of surrender will not grant its opponents terms as lenient as Grant offered Lee -- magnanimity is not its style.
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May 27, 2015
The Iraq War Question: A Suggestion to Republican CandidatesHere is how Republicans should answer the "if you knew then what you know now" question.