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Paul Gottfried
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July 21, 2023
Getting Biden WrongTelling us more about Democrat outrages will not likely help the GOP. What may help is avoiding a repeat of 2020.
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June 24, 2023
Living in a Media WorldAmericans on the Left and Right are not looking at the same reality.
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May 29, 2023
How the Democrats are Destroying Large CitiesDemocratic urban rule is becoming increasingly chaotic, particularly as it turns in a woke direction.
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November 26, 2021
The Real Lesson of the Rittenhouse TrialThe reason the judicial system has become so evil so fast is that the media abets violence against those they decide to destroy.
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June 21, 2021
Are We Stuck with Biden?Biden may end up like Obama, remaining personally popular while his party loses elections.
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November 24, 2020
The Virtues of Being GracelessIt may be far more productive for Trump to show defiance than exude graciousness.
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March 15, 2020
Since When Is Joe Biden a 'Moderate'?There is no indication that Biden will be practicing any kind of "moderation" if elected.
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January 28, 2020
Triangulation: Erdogan's Secret WeaponTurkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been teasing the “West” by dealing with its designated adversary, even to the point of being willing to suffer the predictable consequences.
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October 26, 2019
Is Buchanan Right about Democracy?"Democracy" may be in death spiral, but what kind of democracy?
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July 14, 2019
Human Rights and Foreign PolicyExactly what kind of "human rights" is the State Department trying to foster?
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June 23, 2019
How Not to Argue Against Abortion RightsThe pro-life movement need not adapt arguments against eugenics and slavery to condemn abortion.
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April 25, 2019
Mayor Pete's AdvantageThe Republican response to Buttigieg’s playing the gay card to the hilt has been to try to ignore it.
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April 5, 2019
What goes around...Joe Biden discovers a home truth that most of us are coming to know.
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January 15, 2019
Striking at a KingThe usual suspects have dropped their lorgnettes and collpased onto their fainting couches over Steve King.
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December 19, 2018
Burying the Weekly StandardThe Standard was an utterly superfluous appendage of the neoconservative empire, which didn't contribute anything new to our political debate that other, well subsidized neoconservative organs weren't already saying.
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December 14, 2018
A Successful DisruptionIn the aid conferred on Donald Trump's enemies, Robert Mueller has performed miracles.
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November 17, 2018
Conservatism and ChangeOne should not confuse the instinct to keep everything in place with holding conservative principles.
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November 7, 2018
The Cult City TriumphantThe San Francisco of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk was a preview of today's Democratic Party.
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October 28, 2018
'Informed Voters' Are Not the SolutionLoyalties and hostilities are not always reducible to a question of information.
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September 30, 2018
Birthright Citizenship and Natural RightsRepublics have been much more fastidious than empires about who could join them.
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August 10, 2018
What Conservative Canon?The American conservative movement in all its permutations has steadily pushed the idea of a "secular canon."
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August 1, 2018
Trump and Carl Schmitt: An Unlikely AssociationDo President Trump's ideas originate with an abstruse German legal philosopher?
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June 27, 2018
Conservatism, Inc. Indulges Its OwnAny conservative celebrity may lunge to the left without fear of being kicked out of the movement entirely or shunned by other conservative rock stars.
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June 12, 2018
A Conservatism of PrincipleWhat differentiated the conservative movement of bygone years from what has taken its place was a willingness to express sharp internal disagreement and to defend conflicting positions with passion and high learning.
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June 9, 2018
Orwell the LeftistThe 20th century's great enemy of totalitarianism simply couldn't take that last step away from socialism.
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June 2, 2018
By What Right Do You Judge?Conservatism, Inc. has long practiced the kind of censorship one might expect from the Communist Party.
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April 3, 2018
Exonerating Mussolini?Can Mussolini be raised from a stereotyped villain to someone who is at least worth understanding?
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March 23, 2018
A Harmless Persuasion: Conservatives and TraditionalismCatholic and Orthodox traditionalists wear their piety on the sleeves but rarely offend the left.
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March 6, 2018
Corporate America and the LeftAre corporate heads betraying the free enterprise system that has allowed them to flourish?
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March 1, 2018
Trump and Old-Time DemocratsTrump has rattled establishment Republicans because of his alliance with the old Democratic Party, including Southern Baptists, the white ethnic working class, and critics of largely unrestricted immigration.
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February 16, 2018
Bill Kristol Is Not Yet OutIt's far too early to count Bill Kristol as a spent force in conservatism.
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February 8, 2018
Getting the Culprits RightPostmodernists may or may not have built on Marxist ideology, but their ideas are not Marxist in origin.
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January 30, 2018
Inventing the Political CenterCentrism is not about occupying a vital center between two extremes, although our centrists sometimes claim they’re doing this.
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January 23, 2018
Conservatism and Chronological IsolationWhat movement conservatives now profess is far less conservative than what they used to believe.
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January 17, 2018
Does Conservative Populism Exist?Steve Bannon's collapse raises serious doubts as to his "populist" political stance.
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January 12, 2018
The Frankfurt School and Cultural MarxismLong before Saul Alinsky, Frankfurt School Marxists pioneered methods of undermining American norms.
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January 6, 2018
Conservatives Ignore the ObviousRather than engage with red-hot social issues, too many Republicans try not to notice these issues, except to criticize those who won't accept "necessary" or "positive" change.
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December 21, 2017
An Empty 'Conservative' VictoryDoes anyone in his right mind believe that Douglas Jones will not act as Trump said he would, as a tool of Chuck Schumer and those leftist constituencies that helped put him in office?
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November 25, 2017
Misreading PutinWe will never be able to deal with Vladimir Putin until we understand that he does not represent a resurgent Soviet communism.
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November 16, 2017
Jonah's Off Target AgainThe N.R.'s Jonah Goldberg is a socially liberal Republican and an urbanite who doesn't fancy the working-class and rural white constituencies that voted for Trump.
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October 25, 2017
Are We Really Talking about Nationalism?Former president Bush has weighed in by more or less espousing the left’s position.
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September 3, 2017
Ryszard Legutko and the Failings of DemocracyFrom liberalism, liberal democracy has taken its militant doctrine of pluralism, which has been turned against the very diversity it claims to be protecting.
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June 3, 2017
Why #NeverTrumps Persist on the Conventional RightThe issues that define "conservatism" for some #NeverTrumps, like liberal internationalism and tax breaks for the upper class, are not the kind of positions that appeal to the populist right.
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May 1, 2017
How the Right can Learn from the NeoconsThere is no magic bullet by which decades and even generations of leftist penetration of political and cultural institutions can be reversed in one presidential race.
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April 20, 2017
Words That May Never Be HeededA certain hyperbole and obscuring of the full truth are seen as necessary to advance the kind of society that progressives want us to embrace.
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April 8, 2017
Was American Intervention in WW I Justified?An honest attempt at mediating a peace would have been better than American military intervention on the Allied side.
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April 3, 2017
Did the Middlebury Riot Betray an Excess of Virtue?Why should we regard overgrown kids visiting physical harm on unwelcome guests as practitioners of "virtue"?
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March 8, 2017
The Democrats and the Left Are Pursuing a Clever StrategyThe left may be following an effective strategy for discrediting someone they hate.
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March 4, 2017
Do Classical Conservative Worldviews Make Sense Any Longer?Is it possible to be on the right without embracing the classical conservative worldview?
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February 9, 2017
The Death of Marxism RevisitedThere is more continuity between the old-time Marxists and the left-wing multiculturalists than it seems.
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December 24, 2016
Gotcha ConservatismLiberals are not the only ones to abuse historical comparisons.
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August 11, 2016
The Vote Horse Has BoltedWhat the left believes and implements is totally incompatible with living in a stable constitutional republic or monarchy of the kind that has made Western freedoms possible.
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August 7, 2016
What is 'Honorable'?Trump stands together with his followers and happily fights their enemies, which is precisely his duty as a presidential contender with a national base.