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  The Right on Economic Reform

  By Edward Welsch

  We’ve lined up four writers to make the case for three economic reform systems, and one coda in defense of the existing order: economic nationalism, laissez-faire capitalism, Christian distributism, and democratic capitalism.

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  The Case for Economic Nationalism

  By Darrell Dow

  The current moment poses a range of social, political, and economic threats. As the institutions of globalism become exhausted, the time is ripe to marry immigration restriction, economic nationalism, and populism into a potent America First program.

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  The Case for Laissez-Faire Capitalism

  By Walter Block

  Under laissez-faire capitalism, government is limited to armies, which keep foreign bad guys from attacking us; police, to quell local criminals; and courts, to determine guilt and innocence.

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  The Case for Christian Distributism

  By Allan C. Carlson

  Christian distributism celebrates the small and the human. It rests on strong home economies and demands the widest possible distribution and ownership of productive property.

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  Do We Need Economic Reform at All?

  By Samuel Gregg

  American-style capitalism embodies trade-offs. It accepts significant inequalities and creative destruction that can render particular industries redundant. The alternative to this process of change, however, is economic stagnation.

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Society & Culture

• Society & Culture

  Greater Than the French Revolution

  By Philip Jenkins

  At the time, the Franco-Prussian War was a shocking and apocalyptic global event. We should not expect any explosion of commemoration on this 150th anniversary, but such neglect is badly mistaken.

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  Anti-Semitism in Antiquity: The Case of Apion

  By Paul Gottfried

  Contra Apionem is likely the first attempt in history to undermine an opponent through the charge of anti-Semitism: Josephus charged Apion with disrespecting the Jews by invidiously comparing them with the ancient Greeks.

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Reviews

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  What the Editors Are Reading

  By Taki Theodoracopulos, Anthony Esolen

  Anthony Esolen reviews Pär Lagerkvist's Barabbas and Taki Theodoracopulos reviews Cornwell's Waterloo.

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  The Philosopher's Ball Game

  By Vito Chiaravalloti

  I artificially altered my body to become a better baseball player. Humans are all “cyborgs” of a sort, Noë argues—a combination of biology and technology, enhanced by the foods we eat, the medicines we take, and the training regimens we adopt.

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  Madison Avenue's Soviet Mole

  By Jason Michael Morgan

  In his latest book, Klehr attempts to wrap up a long preoccupation with the enigmatic spy David Karr, an American who collaborated with the Soviet Union for a number of years until his death in 1979.

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  What Made the Founders Happy

  By Paul R. DeHart

  Conklin seeks to harmonize the intellectual strains about what consitituted “the good life” which informed the political discourse of early America. She examines British legal thought as embodied in the work of Blackstone and then turns to classical…

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  Books in Brief

  By Mark G. Brennan

  Mark G. Brennan reviews How Dead Languages Work by Coulter H. George.

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Remembering the Right

• Remembering the Right

  Remembering James Burnham

  By Keith Preston

  James Burnham gave us an understanding of what he termed the “managerial revolution,” in which the bourgeoisie has been replaced by a new class of managerial elites, educated technocrats that specialize in the management of large organizations.

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Editorials

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  Excusing Black Violence

  By Edward Welsch

  The idea coming from our supposed leaders on the right, that the violent rioting and looting of Minneapolis and other cities is a justified expression of black grievance, is so delusional that we should pause and wonder.

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  Cultural Radicalism Is the Problem, Not Bolshevism

  By Paul Gottfried

  Today's cultural upheaval is not about Marxism, but the cultural radicalism of America's wealthy elites. The moneyed advocates of gay marriage and transgendered rights have abandoned the traditions of those devout Christians who created this country.

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Correspondence

• Correspondence

  Artists, Punks, and Techies in the Golden City

  By Jay Kinney

  I’m not so much pointing the finger of blame at “those damn techies” as simply chronicling the changes in our neighborhood that I’ve witnessed during four decades of enjoying our “sense of place.”

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Columns

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  Managing Rivalry With China

  By Srdja Trifkovic

  The United States finds itself at a geostrategic crossroads. The key global issue is whether the U.S. and China can manage their relations without a war, which history shows usually results when a rising power challenges the status-quo power.

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  The Chinese Exclusion Act

  By Roger D. McGrath

  In 1882 congress took steps to control Chinese immigration with the passage of “An Act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese.” The act later became known misleadingly as the Chinese Exclusion Act.

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  Aiming Aimlessly

  By George McCartney

  George McCartney with commentary on The Hunt (2020), The Most Dangerous Game (1932), and The Candidate (1972).

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  The Benefits of Solitude

  By Taki Theodoracopulos

  Solitude can offer a blissful disengagement from the horrors of modern-day life, even if it’s forced upon us by a government lockdown. Enforced solitude could even be a spiritual blessing...

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