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By Arthur Milikh - Summer 2021 Issue, National Affairs - From the birth of the modern conservative movement, dissidents concerned with civic and liberal education have tried almost everything to reshape America’s universities: from refusing to donate to their alma maters…, to funding tenure-track positions, forming independent centers on campuses…
By Gerard Baker -… But the scales of virtue must balance, and it isn’t simply a case of administrative incompetence but an act of abject moral failure by a government to fail to secure its borders….There is no higher obligation for a sovereign power to its own people. The reckless…
By Wilfred M. McClay and Kathleen O'Toole - Parents are appalled by the reduction of American history to an endless exercise in identity politics and moral accusation. They fear that the study of the American past — rather than providing the young with a sense of something larger than themselves…
By Lance Morrow - Mr. Trump and his followers…are essentially antifascists: They want the state … to impose the least possible interference and allow market forces and entrepreneurial energies to work. Freedom isn’t fascism. Mr. Biden and his vast tribe are essentially enemies of freedom…. They desire maximum—that is, total—state…
By Christopher DeMuth - A near perfect aspirational agenda to conserve the American nation. - *** Re-establish national borders, reduce our million plus annual illegal entries to zero, and calibrate lawful immigration to the needs of cultural assimilation, social harmony and economic growth; abolish all official racial and other group…
By Orrin Hatch - …Somewhere between the rise of cable news and social media, our shared sense of reality splintered. We live in an era of endless political narratives, in which the phrase “my truth” is supposed to be taken seriously. .. Americans today cannot agree on the existence of…
Good government requires a sound and fair legal system that protects private property rights and individual freedoms, that treats people equally and in so doing counterbalances political power, that operates along clear guidelines and is understandable and predictable; and that has an effective and fair criminal justice system. It is extremely important in the application...…
We are wholly dependent on the natural environment. Designing policies to protect it and regulate activities that impact it is one of government’s most difficult and important tasks. It is difficult because the science required to understand how various human activities affect the environment is so complex, because the interpretation of the science is subject...…