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Marxist Professors and Brainwashed Students: Charlie Kirk’s “The College Scam”

CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA - NOVEMBER 2, 2013: Radcliffe Quad undergrad housing at Harvard University in Fall in Cambridge, MA, USA on November 2, 2013.

The irritable conservative college memoir, which argues that tertiary education is ruining the US, is a tired minor genre to which everyone from William F. Buckley Jr. to Dinesh D’Souza…

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7 min

Nathan Robinson’s Response to the Right

There is a natural instinct in unthinking people—who, tolerant of the burdens that life lays on them, and unwilling to lodge blame where they seek no remedy, seek fulfilment in…

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12 min

“The Conservative Sensibility” by George F. Will. Review.

George F. Will’s The Conservative Sensibility (2019) is a gigantic book that makes a case for why American conservatives should commit to defending right-wing liberalism. It is also intended to…

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9 min

Politics

“The Authoritarian Moment” by Ben Shapiro. Review

We must firmly reject the notion that speech is violence. Dissent isn’t violence. Disagreement isn’t harm. That’s because politics isn’t an identity; it isn’t a denial of someone’s identity to…

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8 min

Politics

The Unbroken Thread by Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari is a man searching for something bigger than himself to believe in. When he was very young, his family, leery of the Shia fundamentalism of their native Iran,…

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8 min

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“The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future” by Charlie Kirk

Trumpism has always been more interesting as a phenomenon than as an ideology. This is in part because, as even some of his supporters have conceded, Trump himself is a…

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10 min

Philosophy

Sowell the Cynic

In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, the eponymous king is a good and accomplished man. He saves the city of Thebes by solving the riddle of the Sphinx, the embodiment of destiny,…

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8 min

Conservative Cancel Culture: Paul E. Gottfried et al’s “The Vanishing Tradition: Perspectives on American Conservatism”

It’s been said that when Germany invaded Russia in June 1941, the Soviet military elite had been so hollowed out by Stalin’s purges that the Red Army had trouble mounting…

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5 min

Politics

Progressivism and Conservatism: Beyond the Labels

The words progressive and conservative have at least three distinct meanings: their generic definitions, the political ideologies to which the words correspond, and the lifestyles they imply. These are all…

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7 min

Politics

Michael Oakeshott and the Critique of Rationalism

Michael Oakeshott belongs alongside F. A. Hayek, Alasdair MacIntyre and, unfortunately, Carl Schmitt as among the most significant intellectual influences on the political right. He was one of the most…

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8 min

What Conservatism Is Not

In 2014, Sir Roger Scruton famously proclaimed that “conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.”…

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9 min

The Viewpoint Hypothesis: Improving How We Define Left and Right

Image by Gerd Altmann It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. For a long time, people assumed…

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10 min

Politics

Reason and Myth in Postmodernity

Irrational and mythological thinking have been gaining adherents recently. In his essay “Conservative Rationalism has Failed,” Yoram Hazony insists that an overemphasis on reason has corroded the moral and spiritual…

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10 min

Politics

Roger Scruton’s “Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition.” Book Review.

Roger Scruton is arguably the world’s most famous conservative thinker. Currently teaching philosophy at the University of Buckingham, he is the author of dozens of books and countless articles for…

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A Preview of “What is Post-Modern Conservatism?: Essays on Our Hugely Tremendous Times.”

In 1989, a young scholar named Francis Fukuyama published an essay with the provocative title “The End of History?” in the National Interest. He argued that, with the fall of…

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Marxist Professors and Brainwashed Students: Charlie Kirk’s “The College Scam”

Nathan Robinson’s Response to the Right

“The Conservative Sensibility” by George F. Will. Review.

“The Authoritarian Moment” by Ben Shapiro. Review

The Unbroken Thread by Sohrab Ahmari

“The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future” by Charlie Kirk

Sowell the Cynic

Conservative Cancel Culture: Paul E. Gottfried et al’s “The Vanishing Tradition: Perspectives on American Conservatism”

Progressivism and Conservatism: Beyond the Labels

Michael Oakeshott and the Critique of Rationalism

What Conservatism Is Not

The Viewpoint Hypothesis: Improving How We Define Left and Right

Reason and Myth in Postmodernity

Roger Scruton’s “Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition.” Book Review.

A Preview of “What is Post-Modern Conservatism?: Essays on Our Hugely Tremendous Times.”

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