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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

  Vito Chiaravalloti artificially altered his body to become a better baseball player. He reviews Alva Noë's book Infinite Baseball, and reflects on the sport and what it means to be a modern human "cyborg," a mix of biology and technology.

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  Madison Avenue's Soviet Mole

  By Jason Michael Morgan

  The enigmatic spy David Karr was an advertising genius, the CEO of a major American defense contractor that marketed the AR-15 to Americans, and 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

  Carli Conklin's book The Pursuit of Happiness in the Founding Era seeks to harmonize several strains of thought on what the Founders meant in the Declaration when they spoke of an inalienable right to pursue happiness.

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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

  Time stands still for no one, and San Francisco’s neighborhoods are evolving organisms whether one likes it or not. Jay Kinney reflects on the changes he's seen in his four decades living there as a cartoonist, writer and editor.

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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. From the start, the Chinese were different than other immigrants. They were sojourners in the U.S. who rejected the values of American society and carefully maintained their own culture.

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  Aiming Aimlessly

  By George McCartney

  Chronicles Film Editor George McCartney reviews The Hunt (2020) and reflects on 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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