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  • Joe Biden: Youth Idol?

    Joe Biden: Youth Idol?0

    Today at Spectator USA I write about Joe Biden’s forgotten status as a fount of youthful genius in “Joe Biden: victim of the cult of youth.” Biden won his first Senate election at the 29, the same age as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and spent the next two decades being extolled for his age and sophistication – before spending the

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  • Columbus Day Still Needs to Be Defended

    Columbus Day Still Needs to Be Defended0

    One year ago, I made my debut in The American Conservative describing my alma mater’s efforts to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day, a microcosm of the effort to erase the American nation and replace its history with something more “diverse.” The work of these cultural arsonists has, unfortunately, continued nationwide. Over the past 12 months, New Mexico,

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  • A New Dark Age: California’s Blackouts Are Self-Inflicted

    A New Dark Age: California’s Blackouts Are Self-Inflicted0

    California, the richest state in the nation—and one that’s often portrayed as the progressive harbinger of the future for the rest of the country – has been hit with its latest Third World-style disaster. On top of high poverty rates, skyrocketing homelessness, rising crime, and the return of medieval-sounding diseases, the state – specifically, the San Francisco Bay

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  • Women Can’t Have It All

    Women Can’t Have It All0

    Oct. 11 marks the International Day of the Girl. An initiative by the United Nations, the Day of the Girl aims “to help galvanize worldwide enthusiasm for goals to better girls’ lives, providing an opportunity for them to show leadership and reach their full potential.” Day of the Girl celebrations in the U.S. seek to

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  • Why Barack Obama Was Particularly Unsuited to Live up to the Ideals of the Nobel Peace Prize

    Why Barack Obama Was Particularly Unsuited to Live up to the Ideals of the Nobel Peace Prize0

    A decade ago, in October 2009, Barack Obama learned that he had won the Nobel Peace Prize. He was uncomfortable with the prize, saying that he didn’t feel that he deserved “to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who’ve been honored by this prize.” Nonetheless, he added that he would

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  • There’s a Reason the Names of These Great Thinkers are Etched in Stone

    There’s a Reason the Names of These Great Thinkers are Etched in Stone0

    I’ll trade you one queer theorist, one native American novelist, a Chinese writer, and five feminists for six Greeks and two Romans. Homer. Herodotus. Sophocles. Plato. Aristotle. Demosthenes. Cicero. Virgil. These are names that strike fear in the hearts of our cultural elites. Unfortunately for the elites at Ivy League schools like Columbia University, these

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