The Left has convinced itself that “words are violence.”
This woeful idea has become the justification for censorship, speech codes, trigger warnings, and all manner of other illiberal nonsense. It is not true that words can literally hurt people, such that they are justified in shutting down viewpoints they disagree with and hiding away in safe spaces. But it is true that words are intellectual weapons, that they can inspire people to great or unworthy acts, that they can combat falsity or promote it. They influence how we view the world and what we consider right or wrong.
All of this is to say, that if you want to win the fight for this country, you’re going to need words. Right words. True words. Courageous words. And you will find them in National Review.
This is a publication wholly devoted to the fight for America. We have a more-than-60-year history of defending America and its political and economic system from the people who would tear it down out of malice, ignorance, or nihilism.
At NR, you will find push-back against the elite-media apparatus and its fictions and pieties. You will find excoriating coverage of those people and institutions that are promoting trans insanity and pushing it on our children. You will find principled, unyielding arguments for the pro-life position on abortion. You will find mockery of the humorlessness and absurdity of the cancellers, whether they are campus censors or woke corporations. You will find truthful coverage of Communist China and its apologists, and serious thinking about how to grapple with this generational threat to our security and liberty.
This is a battle we will never shrink from, but it is one we cannot win alone.
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