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  The 1620 Project

  By Mark David Hall

  The Pilgrims were not 21st-century liberal democrats, but they created political institutions and practices that profoundly influenced the course of American politics, and facilitated later experiments in republican self-government and liberty.

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  The Puritan Legacy Birthed the American Creed

  By Paul Gottfried

  Distorted Calvinist beliefs now animate progressive causes. They are responsible for America’s missionary foreign policy, rootedness in individualism, and repugnance for hierarchy.

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  Catholics in America: An Uneasy Alliance

  By Gerald Russello

  The speed of the rise of the “woke” brigades and the accelerated abandonment of America’s Christian heritage has once again caused Catholics to doubt the compatibility of their faith with the American experiment.

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Society & Culture

• Society & Culture

  Put Not Your Faith in Judges

  By Stephen B. Presser

  Conservatives’ faith in originalist judges has been misplaced, as the most recent U.S. Supreme Court term has shown. John Roberts and his ilk will not preserve American liberty or the timeless truths about humanity upon which the Constitution rests.

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  Ressentiment: He Hates, Therefore He Is

  By Anthony Esolen

  "Ressentiment" festers in the mind of a person until it manifests itself as a false sense of moral righteousness. This concept stems from a feeling of inferiority, and perfectly describes the mindset of today's violent rioters.

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• Society & Culture

  Reparations: Blueprint for a Shakedown

  By Carl F. Horowitz

  Slavery reparations are economically predatory, historically ignorant, politically divisive, legally unconstitutional, and morally repellent. The recent history of such demands demonstrates how the whole thing is nothing more than a big shakedown.

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Reviews

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  What the Editors Are Reading

  By William Murchison, Mark G. Brennan

  The Age of Empire: 1875-1914 (1987) by Eric Hobsbawm, and Essays in the Public Philosophy (1955) by Walter Lippmann.

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  What Civil Rights Hath Wrought

  By James Kalb

  The civil rights movement of the 1960s began with modest goals for changing the public sphere but morphed into an overhaul of every aspect of life. James Kalb reviews Christopher Caldwell’s "Age of Entitlement."

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  Catholic Comfort for a Wounded South

  By John M. DeJak

  There was a uniquely Catholic contribution to the Confederate cause. John DeJak reviews new scholarship on the political loyalties of Confederate Catholics by Gracjan Kraszewski.

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  Old Story, New Resonances

  By Ronald J. Granieri

  Modern politics was born in the French Revolution; knowing its history can enrich our understanding of today’s political challenges. Ronald J. Granieri reviews Jeremy Popkin’s latest book, covering events from the Tennis Court Oath to the Terror.

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  Books in Brief

  By Paul Gottfried, Edward Welsch

  Russian Conservatism, by Paul Robinson (Northern Illinois University Press; 300 pp., $39.95). Small Men on the Wrong Side of History: The Decline, Fall and Unlikely Return of Conservatism, by Ed West (Constable/Little, Brown; 432 pp., $17.99).

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Remembering the Right

• Remembering the Right

  Remembering Learned Hand

  By Allen Mendenhall

  Learned Hand’s advocacy for judicial restraint, bold defense of the First Amendment, and commitment to the legal rights of the states still claim our attention, especially as judicial activism is promoted by legal minds on the left and the right.

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Polemics & Exchanges

• Polemics & Exchanges

  Evil That Good May Come

  "Not one of the four articles debating the pros and cons of dropping the Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki presents the orthodox Christian evaluation of that earth-shattering decision." Letters from a priest and columnist Diana West.

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Editorials

• Editorials

  Playing Pretend With the Founding Fathers

  By Paul Gottfried

  The radical left and right have now merged in a virulent form of anti-Americanism, says C. Bradley Thompson. He worries about young men reading scary, reactionary thinkers, and then disagreeing with him about the ideas that motivated the founders.

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Columns

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  India, China, and U.S. Pacific Strategy

  By Srdja Trifkovic

  Tensions are rising between India and China as they skirmish in the Himalayas. Overlooked by the U.S. media, this conflict shows China trying to intimidate a potential U.S ally and to strengthen its hand against the U.S. in the South China Sea.

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  That Damn Cowboy

  By Roger D. McGrath

  The Western frontier transformed Teddy Roosevelt from a New York aristocrat into the rough rider who charged up San Juan Hill. While living as rancher, he impressed the locals with his tenacity, and his ability to handle himself in a bar fight.

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  The Revolution, Televised

  By George McCartney

  Mr. Jones disturbingly renders the Holodomor with Ukrainian peasants driven to extremes of hunger under Stalin's man-created famine. James Norton plays the eponymous Welsh journalist who exposes the horrible truth.

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  Greek Statues, Molon Labe!

  By Taki Theodoracopulos

  Greeks have shared values and beliefs based on a common ethnicity and religion, and so would never tolerate the malcontents of BLM and Antifa effacing their cultural artifacts. In America, however, nothing is sacred and everything is replaceable.

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