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Blame the Supreme Court’s Conservatives for Gerrymandering

Gerrymandering. It's a tradition as American as baseball, wasteful government, and urban blight. And like most issues facing Americans today, is it of the...

Arts and Entertainment

The Devil Wears Boring

There are few cinematic experiences more deflating than watching a sequel to a beloved film and realizing, somewhere between the first and second act,...

Ken Burns Is Everything That Is Right, and a Little Bit of What Is Wrong with America

I tuned in recently to Conan O'Brien’s podcast -- because, like any serious person, I get my news from only the most reputable sources...

culture

Spirit Airlines Was the Jerry Springer of the Skies

With the news that Spirit Airlines is going out of business, a strange and unrepeatable Golden Age of aviation comes quietly to a close....

The Vanishing Man and the Cult(ure) that Burned Him

A response to the New York Times article: "Men, Where Have You Gone? Please Come Back" Few actors possess the peculiar gift of turning the...

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foreign policy

Victor Davis Hanson Is Right on NATO, Until He Isn’t

There are conservative thinkers one debates, and then there are conservative thinkers one approaches with a kind of intellectual deference, not out of blind...

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The Warmth of Collectivism, and Other Socialist Absurdities

Socialism promises warmth, equality, and fairness. In practice, it centralizes power, rations scarcity, and delivers a system best described as trickle-down socialism.

abortion

The Hollow Empathy of the “Pro-Choice” Christian

It is a peculiar affliction of modern discourse that the more self-evident a moral truth becomes, the more elaborate and disingenuous the attempts to...

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religion

Satan Plays Both Sides

How Moral Certainty Corrupts Politics and Corrodes the Soul We are often tempted to think that the great danger in public life is the presence...

What Atheists Can Learn From Lawyers

Part I: The Anatomy of a Verdict Everyone enjoys a good murder mystery, so see if you can solve this one. My first job as an...

Why Hitler Hated Christianity, But Not Atheism

Among those self-styled learned types who congratulate themselves for having cast off the allegedly “repressive” inheritance of Christianity, it has become common to the...

Law and justice

Louisiana v. Callais Exposes the Contradictions of Democrats and the Supreme Court

One of the more revealing reactions to the Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais is just how completely Democrats seem to have misunderstood...

immigration

Notes from London: A Polite People in a Fraying Democracy

My wife and I have just returned from the United Kingdom, and I have plenty of good things to say about the country. If...

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