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Having More Empathy for Potential Adversaries Is Not Weakness, It’s Smart
Ivan Eland | Commentary | Dec. 2, 2021
Losing Confidence in the Pillars of Our Civilization
Conservatives now have lost their former traditional confidence in many of the pillars of our civilization. And with good reason.
Victor Davis Hanson | Commentary | Nov. 25, 2021
A Space Treaty to Stop the Sky From Falling
Debris in orbit poses dangers to human life and well-being.
Alexander William Salter | Commentary | Nov. 22, 2021
Can the United States Ever Get Foreign Policy Right?
Biden—having long drunk the Kool-Aid that U.S. alliances “won the Cold War” and should continue as they are in perpetuity—is seemingly taking risky moves that could result in war with the nuclear powers of China and Russia.
Ivan Eland | Commentary | Nov. 16, 2021
Why The Left Always Projects
The slurs and smears levelled by the elites are all the more toxic because they have always known these sins firsthand as their own.
Victor Davis Hanson | Commentary | Nov. 15, 2021
History Will Grind Out the Truth
As the second-century A.D. skeptic philosopher Sextus Empricus noted, eventually the truth emerges and cosmic justice is rendered: “The millstones of the gods grind late, but they grind fine.”
Victor Davis Hanson | Commentary | Nov. 11, 2021
The Specter of Chinese Civilization
On Chinese and Western models of governance.
Angelo M. Codevilla | Commentary | Nov. 11, 2021
Joe Biden’s Domestic Terrorism Backstory
How Vice President Biden explained November 5, 2009.
K. Lloyd Billingsley | Commentary | Nov. 5, 2021
Who Eventually Won the Cold War?
There is nothing like an old Bolshevik grinning that ossified American wokesters are stuck circa 1920s in the old Bolshevik Russia.
Victor Davis Hanson | Commentary | Nov. 1, 2021
The Ignoble Lie
“Noble lies” are rarely spun for anyone’s interests other than those of the liars themselves.
Victor Davis Hanson | Commentary | Nov. 1, 2021






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