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Liberalism as Faith
The British philosopher John Gray is not someone to shy away from ‘difficult’ topics. If you are looking for a provocative long read this weekend, his new article in the Times Literary Supplement ought to be a contender. I didn’t agree with all of it (for example, I would argue that the supposedly ...
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Our Cultural Crisis: A Kirkian Response
Editors’ note: The following article is adapted from a speech the author delivered at the Heritage Foundation on March 14, 2018.
Few would dispute that we are in the middle of a grave cultural crisis. A despairing conservative critic wrote: “We are on the road to cultural disaster.”
He placed the ...
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Everyone Should Agree: Aliens Who Commit Crimes Shouldn’t Be in This Country
The Trump administration’s efforts to get convicted criminal aliens off of our streets and out of the country was dealt a setback this week, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A majority in Sessions v. Dimaya held that a part of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) used to deport criminal aliens was ...
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An Enduring Error
Editor’s Note: The following piece originally appeared in City Journal. It is reprinted here with permission.
Fifty-one years ago, in July 1967, in response to an explosion of rioting in poor black urban neighborhoods around the United States, President Lyndon B. Johnson created the National Advisory ...
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Lincoln and Leo XIII against the Nietzscheans
We live in an unusually anomalous culture whose politics and economics are now dominated by Nietzscheans of both the Right and the Left, united particularly in their contempt for long-standing, traditional ideas of reason and ethics, which they believe they have “seen through” and exploded. With the ...
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The Mournful, Magnificent Sally Mann
‘Does the earth remember?" The infinitely gifted photographer Sally Mann asks this question in the catalogue of her great retrospective at the National Gallery in Washington. On view there is her series of Civil War battlefield landscapes, among the most ravishing works of art from the early 2000s. Once sites ...
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Broward County Sheriff Faces ‘Vote of No Confidence’ from Deputies
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, who was scorned for touting his “amazing leadership” following the Valentine's Day shooting in Parkland, Fla., will face a “vote of no confidence” from the union representing his deputies.
The electronic vote, which will begin Friday night and remain open until ...
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What Did Comey Tell President Trump about the Steele Dossier?
On her way out the White House door and out of her job as national-security adviser, Susan Rice writes an email-to-self. Except it’s not really an email-to-self. It is quite consciously an email for the record.
Her term having ended 15 minutes before, Rice was technically back in private life, where private ...
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