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Looking past Trump’s first 100 days
Mark Antonio Wright writes for National Review Online about what lies ahead for the second Trump administration. That means that, 100 days in, there’s still 93.16 percent of the road…
Political culture of the United States
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The Woke Left As the New Puritans
Yuval Levin explores at National Review Online a recent comparison between the woke left and a religious group from America’s past. Critics of the rigid and imperious ideological extremism of…
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Pandemic Sours Americans on Government ‘Help’
Editors at Issues and Insights explore one long-term impact of government’s questionable response to COVID-19. It’s fair to say Americans, especially the pre-revolution colonists, have always had a healthy skepticism…
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Hell-raising OK, when it’s channeled well
Mark Hemingway of the American Spectator considers the history of American rebellion. They say tragedies always come in threes, and so far 2020 is notable for a total, months-long shutdown…
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Immigration and gratitude
Charles Cooke of National Review Online muses about the gratitude of American immigrants. I consider it flatly inappropriate for the president of the United States to be telling Americans —…
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America will come together in reaction to its next threat
Michael Brendan Dougherty of National Review Online suspects that Americans will rally again around a common cause — but only when threatened. The United States of America is currently so…
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Hanson compares Trump to movie character Shane
Victor Davis Hanson relies on a 65-year-old Western in his latest analysis of President Trump for National Review Online. In director George Stevens’s classic 1953 Western, Shane, a mysterious stranger…
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Envied, but not respected
Angelo Codevilla of the Washington Examiner documents foreign countries’ changing approach to the United States. The United States of America is still the world’s envy. Being born, or just living…
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The chief of staff and Trump voters
Noah Bierman offers Los Angeles Times readers interesting observations about the Trump administration’s chief of staff. In the roughly three months since President Trump chose John F. Kelly as his…
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Ponnuru targets Trump’s troubles
Ramesh Ponnuru uses a Bloomberg Businessweek column to assess President Trump’s latest controversy. Donald Trump promised he’d be a different kind of president, and he’s certainly delivered. He’s not one…
Liberty
Ensuring that government does its jobs well
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online explains the benefits for our political debate of having a well-functioning bureaucracy. If we are to have a political exchange that amounts to something…
Elections & Public Integrity
Addressing a destructive myth about America’s woes
John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist tackles a popular myth that has motivated much of the discussion during the 2016 election campaign. No matter who wins the election Tuesday, the…