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We are living posthumous lives amid the shells of the institutions that once animated our political life. Read More
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The poet Christian Friedrich Hebbel got to the nub of the issue when he exclaimed: “What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism… Read More
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The choices we face are often not between good and bad but between bad and worse. Read More
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The news that Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, known the world over as “Joe the Plumber,” had died at age 49 brought me back to the bad old days of 2008. Read More
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The death of socialism in the United States (except on college campuses) had been solemnly pronounced many times during the 1980s and 1990s. But for the past several years, we… Read More
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“Everything has already been said, but since no one was listening, it is always necessary to start again.” Read More
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On the centenary of his death, it is worth pausing to remember the hideous legacy of that ice-cold totalitarian. Read More
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On the Ides of March, we should wonder: to what extent does the American Republic circa 2024 live up to the ideals of limited government envisioned by the Founders? Read More
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A constitution is a guarantor of the general welfare only so long as its provisions are publicly acknowledged and adhered to. Read More
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I suppose that nearly every adult (I’ll come back to that “nearly”) has his own DMV story. The endless lines, the surly clerks, the insufferable atmosphere of bureaucratic imperiousness. Read More
Instituted Among Men
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