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The Hart Conservatives
Whether he would have preferred it at his death or not, much of the media, institutional, and executive-centered conservative movement of today bears Jeffrey Hart's imprint.
The Shrinking Middle Class and Booming Upper-Middle Class: The Plot Thickens
What accounts for this disconnect between perception and reality?
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Our American Legal Tradition Is Not the Warren Court’s Tradition
Most Americans today have no living memory of the world before the Warren and Burger Courts.
How to Shorten SCOTUS Oral Argument
Why not give the Justices an allotment of “extra” time to spend as they will across the term?
New York City Is Mamdani’s Economic Fantasy Land
It will take a sustained effort for New York’s progressive, now socialist left, to rethink the errors of their ways before they learn the hard way.
New York City Is Mamdani’s Economic Fantasy Land
It will take a sustained effort for New York’s progressive, now socialist left, to rethink the errors of their ways before they learn the hard way.
Washington’s Debt Is Falsely Measured
The federal government's debts can only be repaid from what it collects. Measuring those debts against anything else isn’t analysis, it’s marketing.
A Tech Republic, If You Can Keep It
The only real threat to American tech dominance is America itself.
Eating the Rich, Ending Civilization
Will we build a moral architecture disguising a perennial human impulse?
The Great AI Jobs Transition
It's time to develop a posture that treats AI labs and other private actors as the first movers in discovering policy interventions that Congress can then scale, with a particular eye toward younger Americans.
“Democratic” Socialism Is Undemocratic
By promoting class hatred, suppressing private initiative, and seeking enhanced control of our lives, today’s democratic socialists undermine patriotism and individual initiative—two qualities that have long distinguished the United States from other major nations.
America Doesn’t Need to Fear the “Thucydides Trap”
While American leaders can learn much from the ancient Peloponnesian War, the lessons run counter to Xi Jinping’s purposes.
The Transnational Conservative Project
Intellectual conservatism has proved to be both durable and versatile over the last 250 years, and there is little reason to believe that it will be any less versatile in the future.
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How to Shorten SCOTUS Oral Argument
Why not give the Justices an allotment of “extra” time to spend as they will across the term?
The Fifth Circuit’s Chance to Expose the Inflation Reduction Act’s Unconstitutionality
Despite the mounting evidence of harm, the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program remains law — and the Justice Department continues to defend it in federal court.
How the Zelman Decision Revitalized Religious Freedom
'Zelman v. Simmons-Harris' catalyzed a judicial recovery of the founding vision for the Establishment Clause and, more broadly, the relationship between church and state.
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The Roberts Court Needs To Reboot The Machinery Of Death
The Roberts Court should reboot the machinery of death, and get the judiciary out of its interminable quagmire.
Gordon Wood's American Revolution
Widely acknowledged as the pre-eminent historian of the American Founding in our time, Wood was virtually without peer within academic American history today.
Gordon Wood Told the Truth About America
Gordon Wood showed us that a great historian could also be a regular guy.
The Active Dead
Helprin’s refusal to flatter the tastes of our prize-encrusted literary establishment merits three cheers from thinking people on the right.
Harvey Mansfield, Radical
For many academics, students are mere tools to advance an agenda. Mansfield, however, is part of an older tradition that cares for their souls.
Arthur Brooks’ Pursuit of Happiness
'The Meaning of Your Life' centers on a simple question that extends far beyond the liberal/conservative divide. Why are some people happy, and others unhappy?
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