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Corbin K. Barthold Social Credit: Could It Happen Here?

Creeping censorship on digital platforms is alarming—but the decentralizing forces of new technology make Chinese-style control unlikely.

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Autumn 2022

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James Piereson The Playbook for Lawfare

Watergate and Nixon’s resignation, 50 years on

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Aug 07 2024

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John Tierney The Perverse Panic over Plastic

The campaign against disposable bags and other products is harming the planet and the public.

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Winter 2020

Feb 23 2020

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Theodore Dalrymple Murder Most Foul

Twenty years on, the Clydach killings remain horrific—and contested.

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Winter 2020

Mar 17 2020

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Dave Seminara Don’t Defend Columbus—Celebrate Him

The Italian explorer who opened America to the West deserves tribute.

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Oct 09 2020

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Francis Morrone Statues and Civic Memory

In the long run, a society can’t flourish without vibrant public ideals and reverence for its heroes.

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Jeffrey H. Anderson Trump Is Right to Rein in the Smithsonian

The president’s executive order pushing the museum to start honoring American history again is a welcome step.

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John Steele Gordon A Short History of Morality

Past generations could no more live up to present moral standards than we could live up to those of the distant future.

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Rafael A. Mangual Can We Get Back to Tougher Policing?

Law enforcement has major hurdles to clear before it can restore the policies that led to the Great Crime Decline.

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Spring 2024

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Heather Mac Donald Tell the Truth About Law Enforcement and Crime

Until we relinquish the idea that policing activity against black criminals is racist, restoring law and order in our cities will be impossible.

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Charles Fain Lehman Build More Prisons

The case for incarceration

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John M. MacDonald The Pioneer

August Vollmer was the first to professionalize American policing—a legacy often distorted and unappreciated today.

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Spring 2025

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Kay S. Hymowitz Eat, Pray, Leave

The literary glamorization of midlife divorce conveniently skips over the crucial role of marriage in human flourishing.

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Jonathan Alpert Therapy’s Identity Politics Problem

The field has embraced left-wing racialism.

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Allen Mendenhall, Daniel Sutter Business Schools Are Embracing Left-Wing Activism

Many institutions no longer teach students how to flourish in a free-market system.

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William Voegeli William F. Buckley and the Conservative Future

Sam Tanenhaus’s massive new biography raises a question: Is Donald Trump the political heir of *National Review*’s founder?

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