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The Seven Thinkers and Groups That Have Shaped JD Vance’s Unusual World View
JD Vance represents something genuinely unusual for the MAGA movement: A national Republican who is deeply enmeshed with the elite world of the conservative intellectual movement — or what’s sometimes termed for convenience as “the New Right” or “the dissident right.”
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The E.U. Is Revealing Its True Identity. Europeans Don’t Like It.
In European Parliament elections this month, voters in most of the European Union’s 27 countries rallied to parties that hold the union in contempt. Analysts have leaped to the conclusion that the European Union must have done something wrong.
Charles Kesler: Keeping the Tablets Is Our Urgent Duty
I was a good friend of Bill Buckley’s. We did a book together back in 1988 called "Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought," a greatest-hits anthology of the conservative movement as it stood at the close of the Reagan administration.
Britain faces bigger problems than its Tory party
With Brexit, the UK reclaimed a considerable measure of formal sovereignty – but not its democracy.
The soul of Strauss
Can anyone help us understand the madness afflicting Western civilization? Art, for all its power, is usually better at reflecting or illuminating—rather than explaining—the human condition. Psychology can at best clarify what appears to be a metastasizing global derangement syndrome. If Aristotle is right, politics offers the most comprehensive view of human affairs.
Americans Must Criticize Our Corrupt Courts
In the wake of his conviction in a New York court, President Trump has complained that the process was rigged against him, that the whole proceeding was a corrupt effort to persecute him with a view to influencing the 2024 presidential election.
Only One Constitution Can Survive
The upcoming June 27 debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump is fascinating on several levels, even before it’s happened. We have never before had a current president debate a former president. In addition, the debate is unusually early, and will be conducted without a live audience—two factors that, according to some analysts, reveal deep concerns among White House staff.
The Real Mover of “the Civic Bargain”: A Review of Manville and Ober
Self-interest in a democracy is not necessarily an evil. It only becomes an evil when democratic government grows so intrusive in ordinary life that self-interest can only be interpreted as a kind of dissent from a general—but now all-pervasive—good.
‘Be All You Can Be’ and the TikTok Mutiny
With a recruiting slogan like “Be All You Can Be,” it’s no wonder the Army is enduring a “Tik Tok Mutiny.” When the military—a force built for the ruthless and concentrated application of mass violence—promises self-actualization to Generation Z, why should the country be surprised when those recruits revolt over a military lifestyle of sacrifice and service?
The Campaign against Clarence Thomas Misfires Yet Again
The continuing effort to discredit the Supreme Court justice is growing ever more desperate. There is an old lawyer’s joke: “If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.”
