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    • India’s Affirmative-Action Lesson for America

    By By Sadanand Dhume July 15, 2026

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    By Sadanand Dhume July 15, 2026 – Quotas hold the country back, even as China’s meritocracy fuels its economic advancement….“The biggest challenge for 21st-century India is how to go forward with democracy and merit,” Mr. Das said. He pointed out that India could learn from China’s “remarkable success” in recent decades at dramatically reducing poverty and becoming “a middle-class nation.” Mr. Das argued that China’s embrace of the principle of merit—in both education and leadership selection—played a large role in the country’s transformation. Read More

    Justice Thomas: Progressives vs. the Declaration AA

    By Justice Clarence Thomas speech excerps

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    By Justice Clarence Thomas- Progressivism was the first mainstream American political movement—…—to openly oppose the principles of the Declaration. Progressives strove to undo the Declaration’s commitment to equality and natural rights, both of which they denied were self-evident….But we were fortunate not to trade our Lockean bounds for the supposedly enlightened world of Hegel, Marx and their followers. Fascism—which, after all, was a national socialism—triggered wars in Europe and Asia that killed tens of millions. The socialism of the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China proceeded to kill more tens of millions of their own people. This is what happens when natural rights give way to the higher good of notions of history, progress, or, as Thomas Sowell has written, the “vision of the anointed.” Read More

    Rediscovering Order in an Age of Populism AA – lengthy article

    By Mike Pence & Ed Feulner - Summer 2025

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    By Mike Pence & Ed Feulner – Summer 2025 – An existential identity crisis now grips the American right. A political movement once united by a commitment to limited government, moral order, and a robust defense of American ideals now appears fractured, its purpose clouded by populist grievances and ideological drift. The urgency of this moment demands a return to first principles, along with a reexamination of what conservatism means and what it seeks to achieve in an age marked by cultural upheaval and political polarization. Read More

    Capitalism Needs Champions A

    By Matthew Hennessey -June 30, 2025

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    By Matthew Hennessey – In this twilight struggle the truth has an advantage: Socialism is incompatible with human nature. People are driven to build, to invest, to strive and be productive, to pursue their own families’ well-being above all. Socialism subverts these impulses. It requires coercion to achieve anything resembling success. It’s an intellectual lab leak. Misery follows wherever it’s tried.

    Yet each generation somehow produces naïfs who are certain that collectivism is the true longing of the human heart. …The young voters who supported Mr. Mamdani were primed by their expensive educations to buy his line that capitalism is rigged in favor of the rich. All they’ve ever been told—by teachers, professors, TV and TikTok—is that markets are inhumane. 

    This is a failure of education, yes. Basic economics is rarely taught in high school or required in college. But it’s equally a failure of public relations.  Read More

    Mitch McConnell: Liberal Bureaucrats Threaten Democracy

    By Mitch McConnell - June 11, 2024

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    By Mitch McConnell – The Constitution vests each branch of the federal government with an exclusive power, responsive to the people in elections. In each branch, liberals seek to remove that power from democratic accountability and vest it in unelected bureaucrats.  Read More