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Spirit Airlines Was the Jerry Springer of the Skies

Jordan B. Rickards, Editor-in-Chief - May 3, 2026

Democrats, the Left, and Liberalism

The Left’s Calvin and Hobbes Syndrome

May 2, 2026

Law and Justice

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

Law and Justice

Blame the Supreme Court’s Conservatives for Gerrymandering

Bernie Sanders: Patron Saint of the Privileged

Fascism is Not an Ideology of the Right

Why Jordan Peterson Still Won’t Call Himself a Christian

Nick Fuentes: Counterfeit Conservative, Counterfeit Christian

On Venezuela: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Return of American Hegemony

The Lie Behind the Warmth of Collectivism

What Atheists Can Learn From Lawyers

When Romney Says “Tax the Rich Like Me,” He Means You

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Law and Justice

The SPLC Indictment: Separating Truth from Fiction

April 26, 2026

I took the time to actually read the indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center because these cases tend to follow a predictable pattern:...

Liberals Have Us On The Wrong Track With High-Speed Rail

April 18, 2026

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

April 15, 2026

Keith Olbermann and the Loneliness of Being Ignored

April 9, 2026

Republicans Need to Ditch the Filibuster, and John Thune

April 6, 2026

Arts and Entertainment

Arts and Entertainment

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...

Arts and Entertainment

Cabaret and Collapse: The Seduction That Preceded the Storm

Fascism was not a contradiction of Weimar decadence. It was its consequence. It is easy, perhaps too easy, to be dazzled by Cabaret. The music...

Hollywood Phonies Fear AI Fakes

October 6, 2025

Cancelling Kimmel Dishonors Charlie Kirk, and Threatens Our Rights

September 18, 2025

Why Fashion Never Had a #MeToo Moment

September 15, 2025

The Office Spin-Off Is a Wall Street Fire Sale Disguised as Entertainment

September 6, 2025

culture

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....

Culture

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...

The Enemy Is Us: Facing Our Complicity in Violence

September 13, 2025

Charlie Kirk’s Murder Calls for Healing, not Hatred

September 11, 2025

A Great Civilization is a Merciful Civilization

April 27, 2025

Cancel Culture’s Curious Contradiction

March 22, 2025

TRUMP

Opinion

Trump Needs to Project Calm

November 22, 2025

Big government

The Left’s Star Wars Trap

September 2, 2025

Opinion

A Trump Anti-Crime Bill, not the National Guard, is the Ultimate Solution

August 26, 2025

Economics

Trump’s Intel Deal: A Win for Taxpayers

August 23, 2025

Foreign Policy

Mr. Trump: India Is the Fulcrum of the 21st Century — And We’re Pushing It Away

August 17, 2025

Congress

The One Big Beautiful Bill: A Bold Conservative Victory, with Some Hard Questions

July 4, 2025

foreign policy

Foreign Policy

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

Jordan B. Rickards, Editor-in-Chief - 0

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

Should We Cheer for War?

March 2, 2026

Bombing Iran and the Limits of Ballistic Diplomacy

February 28, 2026

On Venezuela: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Return of American Hegemony

January 4, 2026

United for Stalemate: Ukraine, and the Performative Politics of Playing not to Lose

August 22, 2025

Editor's Picks

Simplificatum Maximus: The Fallacy of Conservative Hypocrisy

October 18, 2025

Why Decency Matters: Lessons from ‘Young Woman and the Sea’

January 11, 2025

The Surprisingly Christian Message of “The Ides of March”

March 20, 2025

No, Critical Race Theory is not American History

September 26, 2022

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The Blithe Ignorance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Shows Why Socialism Appeals to Millennials

July 21, 2018

Roberts is Wrong: Why Bad Judges Must Be Removed

March 18, 2025

How the Supreme Court Destroyed American Cities

November 7, 2025

Democrats’ Tariff Hypocrisy: Trump’s Policies Aren’t New, Just Newly Criticized

February 2, 2025

economics

Democrats, the Left, and Liberalism

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.

When Romney Says “Tax the Rich Like Me,” He Means You

December 20, 2025

Republicans are Failing to Solve Serious Problems

December 8, 2025

abortion

Abortion

The Hollow Empathy of the “Pro-Choice” Christian

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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...

Planned Parenthood’s Priestess of Death: Cecile Richards’s Legacy

January 26, 2025

The Left Suffers from Abortion Distortion Syndrome

July 3, 2022

sports

Opinion

The Coming Privatization of College Sports

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The Case for Rickey Henderson: The Greatest of the Modern Game

Opinion

Brittney Griner is a Prisoner of War

Opinion

New Study Reveals That WNBA Players Earn Less Than NBA Players!

religion

Satan Plays Both Sides

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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

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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

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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

Law and Justice

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

April 30, 2026

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...

Blame the Supreme Court’s Conservatives for Gerrymandering

April 29, 2026

The SPLC Indictment: Separating Truth from Fiction

April 26, 2026

When Power Operates in the Shadows

March 21, 2026

Law, Order, and the Dangerous Confusion Between Protest and Anarchy

February 1, 2026

immigration

First Amendment

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...

Health Care for Illegals and the Dems’ Trilateral Contradiction

October 4, 2025

The Deportation Illusion: How Obama Denied Due Process to Illegal Aliens

July 5, 2025

Democrats, the Left, and Liberalism

The Left’s Calvin and Hobbes Syndrome

Liberals Have Us On The Wrong Track With High-Speed Rail

April 18, 2026

The Warmth of Collectivism, and Other Socialist Absurdities

January 3, 2026

Bernie Sanders: Patron Saint of the Privileged

January 1, 2026

Republicans, the Right, and Conservatism

Republicans Need to Ditch the Filibuster, and John Thune

Fascism Is Not an Ideology of the Right

December 26, 2025

When Romney Says “Tax the Rich Like Me,” He Means You

December 20, 2025

Nick Fuentes: Counterfeit Conservative, Counterfeit Christian

December 14, 2025

Education

Donor Plaques Fade, but God’s Record Endures

August 24, 2025

Beyond the Ban: What Conservatives Must Put Into the Classroom

August 2, 2025

Ivy League, Inc.: Harvard is a Hedge Funds with Classrooms

May 3, 2025

Both Parties are Wrong About the Department of Education

March 23, 2025

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When Power Operates in the Shadows

March 21, 2026

Foreign Policy

Should We Cheer for War?

March 2, 2026

Foreign Policy

Bombing Iran and the Limits of Ballistic Diplomacy

February 28, 2026

Law and Justice

Law, Order, and the Dangerous Confusion Between Protest and Anarchy

February 1, 2026

News Media

Note to Don Lemon: The Press Is Not Above the Law

January 31, 2026

Editor's Favorites

Satan Plays Both Sides

January 18, 2026

Law and Justice

Scalia Reconsidered: A Conservative Critique of Originalism

January 17, 2026

Editor's Favorites

What Atheists Can Learn From Lawyers

January 10, 2026

Foreign Policy

On Venezuela: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Return of American Hegemony

January 4, 2026

Democrats, the Left, and Liberalism

The Warmth of Collectivism, and Other Socialist Absurdities

January 3, 2026

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