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Choose Your Side

The first thought that occurred to me upon receiving a review copy of David Garrow’s hefty biography of our former president was, besides its weight (four pounds), how the jacket photograph perfectly expresses what is revealed in 1,084 pages of text.

The Brave Professor

Mark Wegierski

At the University of Toronto, one man has shown us just how uphill the climb is against political correctness, and what sort of reaction we may expect if we fight it. He may also have shown us how to win.

Very Bad on Both Sides

Aaron D. Wolf

Charlottesville was a shameful disaster, and the responses from America’s elites were far from encouraging. Most of them amounted to “Who started it?” That is the response of a child.

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Where Credit Is Due
Aaron D. Wolf | September 22, 2017
As Chronicles editor Chilton Williamson, Jr., notes, Mr. David Brooks of the New York Times has written an editorial in praise of (or perhaps blaming) Sam Francis for accurately describing the American proscenium and providing profound structural analyses of the cultural and economic plight of Middle Americans. What is Brooks getting at?
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Sam Francis at the New York Times
Chilton Williamson, Jr. | September 22, 2017
David Brooks devotes his column in the New York Times today (22 September 2017) to a generous appreciation of Sam Francis, whom he calls “one of the most prescient writers of the past 50 years.”
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Trump—American Gaullist
Pat Buchanan | September 22, 2017
If a U.S. president calls an adversary "Rocket Man . . . on a mission to suicide," and warns his nation may be "totally destroyed," other ideas in his speech will tend to get lost. Which is unfortunate. For buried in Donald Trump's address is a clarion call to reject transnationalism and to re-embrace a world of sovereign nation-states that cherish their independence and unique identities.
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Killing Due Process in the War on Terror
Ted Galen Carpenter | September 21, 2017
One striking feature of the U.S. Constitution is the number of procedural rights guaranteed to individuals accused of criminal behavior before they can be deprived of life, liberty, or property.
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