Coming to America
It’s not just mass illegal immigration that poses a threat
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The Surprising National Security Role of America’s “Best Idea”
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s former bodyguard, who once reportedly confronted a bear at a mountain retreat while Putin slept through the ordeal, was appointed secretary of the...
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Slovenia Latest EU Member State to Push Recognition of Palestinian State
Israel lambasted Slovenia on May 31 after the former Yugoslav republic’s government formally requested its parliament to unilaterally recognize an independent Palestinian state....
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The friends of our enemies
Westerners, too, are waging a ‘War on the West’
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Preserving the Warrior Ethos
It is corroded, and the necessary restorative work belongs to us all
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Joe Biden’s Curious Defense of Gen. Lloyd Austin
In The Atlantic, the president-elect touts his nominee's handling of the Iraq withdrawal and is notably silent on China.
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Mike Pompeo’s fight for unalienable rights
The Human Rights Establishment wants him out of the marketplace of ideas
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Voices of America
Obama holdovers run U.S. global media, and they’re not giving it up
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George Will and American power
How his conservative sensibility informs his approach to foreign policy
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American values are not the cause of racism
More than 35 years ago, I went to Africa for the first time, the junior member of a group of American writers. We were visiting The Gambia and, at a stop in the interior, I purchased a small wood...
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Not everyone can join the American Nation
This is a peculiar moment in history, one in which we have come to expect the unexpected. Even so, I was surprised to see this: a reporter and a White House official debating poetry. I&r...
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Mocking Justice in Norway: The Breivik Trial Targets Contrarian Intellectuals
“Wow.” This is the only word Tonje Brenna heard Anders Behring Breivik utter as he methodically killed sixty-nine of her fellow Norwegian Labor Party acti...
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Moderation, Saudi-Style
Women will always be serfs under sharia.
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In Defense of American Exceptionalism
It’s not about smugness and narcissism. It’s about shouldering responsibilities that no other nation can or will.
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Revolution, Iranian and Otherwise
Tell the truth: you don’t really know what a revolution looks like, do you? Chances are that if anybody asked you, you’d conjure up some picture including the storming of the B...
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Being American
This weekend, on July 4, Americans celebrate the 234th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Over the burgers and sweet corn, that’s always a good day to think about what, exactly...
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The U.N.’s Durban II Debacle
GENEVA -- As I write this, the United Nations Durban Review Conference on "racism" is still officially in session, stumbling toward the close, on Friday, of its five-day run at the U.N.'s pa...
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Answering Peter Robinson
Peter, over the weekend I watched your Uncommon Knowledge interview with Philip Bobbit — parts beyond what you asked me to take a look at. Prof. Bobbit is plainly a thoughtful guy but...
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Traitors Will be Prosecuted
Authored by Alykhan Velshi Just as a muscle will atrophy if unused, criminal prohibitions may lapse into desuetude when no one enforces them. Fortunately, and to its everlasting...
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Fed Up With Vietnamania? Relief is at Hand
Time for a deep breath. We've hit that late-summer stretch when everyone is waiting for autumn, and the news seems stuck in endless replay. Seven years ago, we were about to hit round-the-cl...