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Victor Davis Hanson ponders the political left’s antagonism toward America. We often associate leftist movements, anarchists of the 19th century, Jacobins of the 18th century, Marxists, Bolsheviks, Symbionese Liberation [Army],…
Editors at National Review Online focus on Arizona’s departing senator. Senator Kyrsten Sinema on Tuesday acknowledged reality and dropped her independent bid in the crucial Arizona U.S. Senate race in…
Carl Cannon writes at RealClearPolitics about an important historical lesson for people concerned about today’s toxic politics. We live in a time when U.S. politics is not only hyper-partisan, but…
Victor Davis Hanson of National Review Online delves into the history of major cultural shake-ups. Unlike coups or political revolutions, cultural revolutions don’t just change governments or leaders. Instead, they…
Paul Krause of the American Thinker ponders Antifa‘s role on the political left. Antifa storms in and out of the news, despite that fact, the Left is unable to denounce…
Victor Davis Hanson of National Review Online compares today’s American political leftists to a group of 18th-century French radicals. By mid 1793–4, the radical Jacobins had successfully completed their hijacking…
DOUBLETHINK means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered;…
If you’ve been happy to see the overthrow of long-entrenched dictators in the Arab world, Niall Ferguson‘s latest Newsweek article might dampen your enthusiasm a bit. Ferguson believes economic turmoil…
Sanera’s quotation of C.S. Lewis in response to George’s post brings to mind a quotation from another rare moral voice of the 20th century. Lewis concluded that “those who torment…
Mecklenburg County Commissioner Jennifer Roberts seems to have two different campaign messages, one for the broader community and one for Democratic activists. Let’s cross the streams and see what happens.…