Are We Subjects or Citizens? Birthright Citizenship and the Constitution
It is absurd to believe that the Fourteenth Amendment confers the boon of American citizenship on the children of illegal aliens.
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Category: History
Recovering the Lost Art of Diplomacy
Diplomacy is an art and is best defined by its outcomes rather than by its processes. The most consequential outcome by far is the constraint of the power of one’s adversaries.
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The Dangers of Undermining U.S. Civil–Military Relations
The video draws service members into a political dispute, sowing discord, which is especially dangerous during periods of political tension.
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Today’s Firestorm and the Declaration
A proper celebration of the Declaration will be helpful in all our troubles. It will be helpful to the young men and women who are lost today by helping them to rediscover nature and reason.
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The Significance of the Recently Released Russia Hoax Documents
The Russia collusion hoax was anchored to two central claims: first, that Trump was a compromised agent of Russia, and second, that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump. The first claim was completely debunked after years of investigation. It is on the second and far more plausible claim—which was just as key to the hoax—that the newly released documents shed new light. And the revelations are shocking.
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American Virtues – 2025 Commencement Address
Millions of Americans are asking for a reexamination of our culture and society with an eye to restoring ancient decency and looking to the good of past generations.
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Is J.D. Vance Right about Europe?
The EU brings benefits, but it does so by destroying national sovereignty. It seems to turn the countries it dominates into whimpering, simpering, dysfunctional shadows of the proud nations they once were.
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Tariffs in American History
When Alexander Hamilton became the nation’s first Secretary of the Treasury, he immediately began to prepare a schedule of tariffs, along with excise taxes on such commodities as alcohol and tobacco. The Constitution forbids taxing the exports of any state, and so American tariffs have always been laid only on imports.
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Restoring American Culture
Trump has repeatedly said that his common-sense revolution would usher in a “new golden age.” In the context of unleashing the economy and technological innovation, we can understand this to mean literal gold. But a large part of our new golden age will be aggregated under the rubric of normality. The return of common sense is also the return of the normal. What would that look like in the realm of culture?
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What We Know and What We Don’t
About January 6
Defenders of the official narrative accuse those who ask such questions of being conspiracists. But until those questions are answered, our understanding of January 6—no matter our political leanings—will be incomplete.
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Religious Liberty and the Genius of the American Founding
We are in danger of losing the precious gift of religious liberty, which took almost 2,000 years for the Christian West to put into practice.
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Populist Conservatism and Constitutional Order
American conservatism exists to serve the people and the nation through the Constitution. This includes defending them against enemies foreign and domestic. And the fact is, elite institutions have become the people’s and the nation’s enemies. They are openly waging cultural war on those they ostensibly serve. They cannot be negotiated with or accommodated. They must be defunded, disbanded, and disempowered. The rewards for doing so—for putting American families first again—will be greater than we can know.
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