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What Do You Want Conservatives to Say About Slavery?

Can the U.S. Still Deter?

Young Progressives Need to Stop Social Climbing

Civilians Are Not Innocent

Foreign Policy, Cretinism and Decadence

Biden is Holding Ukraine Aid Hostage to Protect an Open Border

Javier Milei, Our Populist

The "Blame Ukraine" Narrative Has Arrived in Full

Iran's Global War

Addressing our Crisis of Values Part I

Hamas and Its Allies are Winning Over Public Sympathy by Weaponizing 'Social Justice' Advocacy

"Is Democracy Doomed?" revisited

The New Antisemitism

Why I am Still Not a Christian

The Would-Be Philosophers of Peace

A Note of Thanks

On the Crass Infuriating Disgrace of an AntiWar GOP

The Woke are Proto-Terrorists

It is our Obligation to Freedom Everywhere to Help Netanyahu Either Contain, or if Necessary, Remove the Ayotollah by Force

How “Deescalation” Leads Inexorably to War

Hid Treasure

The Limits of Principles

Countering Russia’s Horizontal War

The future of conservatism needs liberal economics. Without it we are just fearful reactionaries.

A Splendid Idea

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Still the Lioness of the West

No Half-Measures

White House warns of Serbian military buildup on Kosovo border, calls on Serbia to withdraw

Bidenomics Collides with Reality

Putting Genocide “in Context”

Craven Asscovering

#WTH: Why protect Iran?

The Attack on Israel Gives Us a Glimpse of the Inferno

Drill, Baby, Drill

A Personal Statement on Israel

My Advice to Netanyahu— Take the Battle to the Enemy

The World Needs America More Than Ever

24,669 Americans Murdered by Terrorists in One Day

The Mask Drops

#WTH The necessary objective

#WTH The War on Israel

The War in Israel and Ukraine Are Directly Linked

You're not going to like what comes after Pax Americana

The Sexual Revolution Has Certainly Failed

Deserting the walls of world freedom

WTH: Defunding the military

Changing Back

Billions of Dollars in Ransom for Hostages is not "Deescalation," it’s Classic Appeasement, Full Stop

A Coming Time of Troubles

Good for Sunak

Nikki Haley's Gamble of Telling Republican Voters the Truth

My Strange Meeting with the Iranian President

The advance of the monoculture

Solar Energy Is Getting 200 Times More In Federal Subsidies Than Nuclear

Kremlin Defector Confirms That the Biden Administration is Pro-Russian

Bari Weiss Derangement Syndrome Is Real

The Statistic No One's Allowed To Study

More on Samuel Moyn’s Misapprehension of a Great School of Thought

Girls Gone Wild

Recommended Further Reading/ Listening on the Developing Biden Betrayal of Ukraine

A Profound, Uncanny Silence

We will all become boring

It’s Official! The Democrats Have a Nonwhite Voter Problem

Biden is Throwing Ukraine to Putin-- or the Next Republican "America First" Isolationist Peacenik--All Because of Downright Cowardly and Un-American Paranoia about Escalation Not all Nuclear

Dear Linda Yaccarino

Notes on the Way

In Defense of Cold War Liberalism

Nikki Haley Cleaned House Wednesday Night

How to Join Tonight's Debate

Exciting Announcements

If AI can Replace Hollywood, then Fine

Loneliness is not an Epidemic to be Treated—Narcissism rather is a Social Scourge, Causing People to Imagine They Need “Connection” in the Form of Infinite Caresses and Reassurance from One’s Tribe

Stop Cancelling Russia

If Only Because of Hunter, if Joe Biden Cared at all About American Democracy, He Would have the Decency Not to Run for Reelection

Meghan’s Daum’s Witty Barbie Satire, and my Decidedly Insensitive Opinion of Metoo

By Publicly Condemning Kim Reynolds, Trump Disqualifies Himself

Polarization is Overrated

Reauthorize Section 702— Unruly Americans Revoke their Right to Privacy and Deserve to be Warrantlessly Surveilled

Dear Subscribers

Domestic but Mainly Foreign Policy Meditations, on the Fourth of July

The Fed‘s “Hawkish Pause” or "Prudent Pause" or Whatever it is, is Not as Clever as it Sounds: With Roots in the Zeal to Finesse a Soft-Landing Without Provoking Recession

The Problems with Biden’s Surreptitious Appeasement of the Islamic Republic, by Way of Virtually Unconditional Sanctions Relief

The Proper Trump Indictment We’ve Been Waiting For

If the Manhattan DA Thinks He Can Uphold The Rule of Law, Prosecuting Trump and Penny at the Same Time, Then He is an Idiot

Canadian Wildfire Air Pollution Gives Northeastern Hypochondriac Progressives a False Pretext to Pretend to be “Smart” and Hibernate Again

There are 2 Solutions to Our Border Problem— Asylum for Illegal Crossers, and Amnesty for the Backlogged

America Needs Nikki Haley’s Triumphalism

Strict Work Requirements for Welfare are a Classic Neoliberal Idea, and Now We Need Them More than Ever

How to Think About Memorial Day in a Dark Age of Foreign Policy Nationalism

Deflation? Really?

Why in Order for Democracy to Prevail, We Must Prioritize the Self-interest of the Common Taxpayer, and Nobody Else

Biden Give Ukraine F-16’s, for Christ’s Sake

The Only Thing Worth Leveraging the Debt Limit for is to Repeal Biden’s $1.2 trillion Climate Subsidies

CNN Poured Acid on Democracy for the Sake of Consolidating the Status Quo

Kevin Mccarthy’s Budget is a Godsend, Not Because it Would Substantially Reduce Deficits, but Because it Would Gut the Inflation Reduction Act

Mistakes Were Made…

Young Men are Not “Lost” and They Do Not Need “Role Models”

Macron’s Diplomatic Blunder in China Underscores How Unreliable the US has Become to its NATO Allies

Self-indulgent Efforts to Define by Descriptively Characterizing Wokeness, However Frequently Enlightening when not Entertaining, Offer No Prescription to Counter it

Histrionic Demands for Tribal “Justice” by Precluding Deliberative Procedure, Undermine Democracy by Eviscerating Democratic Norms

Trump, Not Alvin Bragg, is the One Being Political

SVB Had It Coming

The Trump New York Indictment is a Waste

Forget About China: The West Needs To Consider Intervention in Iran

Voluntary Overreaction

Macron was Right to Compare French Protestors of his Pension Reform to the Trump Supporters who Stormed the Capitol

Against the Stale Euphemism, Sex Worker

Congratulations to Kaja Kallas on Her Reelection

For Heaven’s Sake, Let’s Not Ban Tik Tok

We Who Volitionally Stoke Outrage Just to Enjoy the Spectacle It Incites Have No Right to Complain about How “Divided” We Are, or How Depressing the News Is

Biden’s Leviathan Part I

Macron Needs to Hold Strong

Big Tech Can Regulate ITSELF

“Destroyer,” or Why I love Nicole Kidman

Men’s Fashion is in Precipitous Decline and Jordan Peterson Bears Some Responsibility

Biden’s “Made in America” Bumper Sticker Industrial Policy is Economically Primitive, Terrible Foreign Policy, Politically Moronic, and Even Racist— Introduction

Kim Reynolds 2024!

Why Don’t We Be Kind Enough to Forget About Men?

Josh Hawley, A Portrait of a Right Wing Snowflake

Want the Culture War to Go Away? Why Don’t we Privatize It?

More Anti Michael Sandel Spleen

Michael Sandel’s Critique of Merit is an Indictment of the Free Society

American Separatism Part Two

American Separatism, Part 1

The Fed Should Cool It: The Only Alternative To Stop Inflation is to Tackle the Supply Shocks with Supply Side Reform

A Frankly Bad Netflix Show I Watched that was Good