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  • Conservatism & the Politicization of Culture

    Conservatism & the Politicization of Culture0

    There is an aspect to the conservative abandonment of culture I find distressing: the increasing politicization within the conservative movement. I have witnessed a movement which began with the insights of thinkers like Russell Kirk into the primacy of imaginative vision, or what Richard Weaver called “the metaphysical dream,” turn into a highly politicized phenomenon

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  • Congress’ Illegal ObamaCare Exemption and Its Nixonian Defenders

    Congress’ Illegal ObamaCare Exemption and Its Nixonian Defenders0

    Thousands of members of Congress and congressional staffers are benefiting from an illegal scheme that gives Congress special treatment both by exempting them from the harshest part of ObamaCare and by providing them each up to $12,000 in benefits that federal law prohibits them from receiving. Last week, the Heritage Foundation’s John Malcolm and I

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  • Congress, We’ve Got Your Number

    Congress, We’ve Got Your Number0

    Dear Members of Congress: Some of you who are doing your duty in representing your constituents need not pay attention to this letter. You know who you are. For the rest of you, I have a question: Where in the name of our country are you people? Since Jan. 20, we’ve had a crisis at

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  • Congress Used to Pass Bipartisan Legislation – Will It Ever Again?

    Congress Used to Pass Bipartisan Legislation – Will It Ever Again?0

    Congress seemingly hasn’t accomplished much apart from a tax cut and criminal justice reform since the election of President Trump in 2016, despite all three branches being controlled by the GOP. Will that record get even worse now that the U.S. has divided government? As a political scientist who studies Congress, I find it tempting

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  • Congratulations, Harry and Meghan! Now It’s Time for a Second Baby.

    Congratulations, Harry and Meghan! Now It’s Time for a Second Baby.0

    Congratulations to Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, on the birth of their baby boy! As a fellow parent, I would like to offer them some advice. Harry and Meghan, you need to have a second baby as soon as possible. And no, I don’t mean because of the biological clock (Meghan is 37).

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  • Confused Wellesley Students Protest Scholar Believing She Opposes Transgender Rights (She Doesn’t)

    Confused Wellesley Students Protest Scholar Believing She Opposes Transgender Rights (She Doesn’t)0

    Some 100 Wellesley students last week turned out to protest the lecture of Dr. Alice Dreger, a bioethicist and former professor at the University of Northwestern and Michigan State, who’d been invited to speak by the school’s Freedom Project. Following her lecture, Dreger was confronted by lines of protesting students. Some of them wore masks;

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