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  The Coming Counter-Coup Against the GOP

  By Stephen Baskerville

  The left’s new monopoly cannot be resisted without breaking free of ossified conservatism. Here are three areas of reform.

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  Rejecting ‘Systemic Racism’

  By John Derbyshire

  Conservatives can get the attention of fair-minded citizens by speaking against the anti-whiteness of the currently dominant narrative. We can be the anti-anti-white faction.

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  Rejecting the 'Proposition Nation'

  By Brion McClanahan

  The left’s ‘1619 Project’ and the conservative 1776 Commission both rely on a distorted picture of the American founding.

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Society & Culture

• Society & Culture

  Deconstructing the Decolonizers

  By Anthony Esolen

  Those who command our schools and colleges behave like colonial powers in the land they occupy. They exercise power for their own ends, ostensibly for the good of their subjects, who mostly suffer their rule with grudging timorousness.

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  The Tiger, the Lion, and the Old Man

  By Wayne Allensworth

  Grow weary of winter. Rejoice in spring. Be watchful for the tiger, mindful of the lion.

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Reviews

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  What the Editors Are Reading: April/May 2021

  By Catharine Savage Brosman, Alexander Riley

  Our contributors review some modern classics: Martin Amis's The Zone of Interest and Pierre Gaxotte's The French Revolution.

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  Grappling With Armageddon

  By Ronald J. Granieri

  How much does the American government's nuclear decision-making resemble the scenarios depicted in popular films like Dr. Strangelove? Author Fred Kaplan explores the esoteric nature of nuclear war in his book The Bomb.

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  Laughing at the Hereafter

  By Harley Price

  A new book by Bart D. Ehrman, modernist writer on the history of religion, continues his project of trying to prove that orthodox Christian doctrine is inauthentic, childish, deceitful, and malevolent, by rehashing ancient critiques of the faith.

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  Historians Are Either Hedgehogs or Foxes

  By Barry Alan Shain

  Recently departed Harvard historian Bernard Bailyn's final book, Illuminating History shines a light on the making of history and contrasts its scientific and storytelling aspects. If only Bailyn had viewed his own work as clearly...

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  Books in Brief: April/May 2021

  By Donald Livingston, John Greenville

  Reviews of William Deresiewicz's The Death of the Artist and Joseph F. Johnston, Jr.'s The Decline of Nations.

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Remembering the Right

• Remembering the Right

  Remembering Leo Strauss

  By Grant Havers

  The political theorist Leo Strauss dismissed conservatism as a doctrine rendered obsolete by modernity, or as one riddled with modernist assumptions. He embraced a “universalistic” account of humanity, assuming all are capable of reason.

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Polemics & Exchanges

• Polemics & Exchanges

  No Mere Christian

  Chronicles editors respond to letters from readers, on the subjects of C. S. Lewis, the legacy of Abraham Lincoln, and complaints in general about articles that challenge readers' worldviews, in the April/May 2021 "Polemics & Exchanges."

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Correspondence

• Correspondence

  Texas and the Big Freeze

  By John R. Hays Jr.

  Regulatory missteps, poor planning, and human error caused an inevitable disaster in the Texas power system this winter.

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Columns

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  The House I Hide In

  By Tom Piatak

  In the 1940s, Frank Sinatra recorded a song that proclaimed American virtues, entitled "The House I Live In." How quaint, I thought, that Americans used to believe those things. Old Blue Eyes would have written a different song were he writing today.

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  Smiling Through Clenched Teeth

  By George McCartney

  Rosamund Pike in I Care a Lot plays a character who preys upon the elderly, hiding her malice behind a brilliant smile. She's one of a number of cinematic villains who mask rapacious natures behind toothy, menacing grins.

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  A Badge of Honor

  By Taki Theodoracopulos

  In our current era, even William Shakespeare is getting "canceled." If a writer hasn't been canceled in one way or another, they're probably no good.

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