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The Cataclysm That Was Roe

John C. Seiler, Jr.

The pro-life movement today almost completely identifies with the Republican Party, despite its support by a few Democrats such as Pennsylvania Sen. Robert Casey (sometimes). It wasn’t always so.

Dope Fiends of the West

Aaron D. Wolf

What underlies all of the social science about the effects of smartphone addiction is an assumption about the good—what is right versus what is harmful for society.

No Piety, No Justice

Jerry Salyer

Pro-lifers have ensured that abortion is still a live issue—no negligible accomplishment in an age of ever-escalating political correctness.

[U]niversities are not akin to ships, moving through uncharted waters toward horizons of higher truth. No, American institutes of higher learning are plagues of locusts. Firing a single shot at them is as effective as squishing one insect in the swarm.

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What Trump's Wall Says to the World
Pat Buchanan | January 27, 2017
President Trump's wall is a statement to the world: This is our country. We decide who comes here. And we will defend our borders.
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Trump’s Realist Vision
Srdja Trifkovic | January 23, 2017
Donald Trump is the first president since Richard Nixon to return the raison d’état to its rightful place as the guiding principle of foreign policymaking. He has made a clean break with the current establishment’s imperial pretensions and moral absolutism, which is a welcome development.
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The Screech of the Privileged
Tom Piatak | January 22, 2017
Trump won the presidency despite the unremitting hostility of all the pundits outraged by his inaugural address. But being a successful president is a far more daunting task than being a successful candidate, and the odds are still stacked against Trump
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Trump Versus the Feminizers
Ralph Berry | January 18, 2017
With Donald Trump soon to be inaugurated President of the United States, I can put forward what I see as the central factor in his victory. It is masculinity.
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