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By the Sweat of Our Brow
After almost a century, what fruit has the conservative distinction between nature and history yielded? Many conservatives today gather in the shade of the tree grown by Leo Strauss,...
The Politics of Scapegoating
The Dying Citizen:How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of Americaby victor davis hansonbasic books, 432 pages, $30 The contemporary political and social crisis in America...
Identity Politics and the Election
Nothing has been settled. As of this morning, votes are still being tabulated and the results of the November 3 election remain indeterminate. It looks like Joe Biden may...
A Godless Great Awakening
Why did millions of Americans don surgical masks, insist on an inviolable national quarantine to keep death at bay, then suddenly remove their masks, take to the streets, and...
Seizing the Crown of Thorns
As we watch the mostly white officials of the Democratic party pander to black Americans with talk of reparations on which they will never deliver, it is worth pondering...
Embarrassed by Our Nations
Among conservatives today there is an emerging confidence about the nation. But it remains a timid confidence, expressed among fellow-travelers but not in the broader political culture. Awkwardness still...
Looking for America
Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life by Hugh Brogan Yale University Press, 736 pages, $35 Hugh Brogan’s Alexis de Tocqueville is a masterful work, the fruit of nearly a half-century...
In the Beginning Was the Word
launching liberalism: on lockean political philosophy by michael zuckert university press of kansas, 392 pages, $29.95 Paraphrasing the Gospel of John: “In the beginning was the Word. And the...
