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  • On Reparations: John F. Kennedy vs. Robert F. Kennedy

    On Reparations: John F. Kennedy vs. Robert F. Kennedy0

    When did the civil rights movement go off the rails? The answer is when proponents went from justly demanding equal rights to unjustly demanding equal results. As to exactly when this occurred, that’s more difficult to answer. But consider statements, made five years apart, from the Kennedy brothers, John F. and Robert F. Neither brother

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  • Let’s Make Summer Great Again

    Let’s Make Summer Great Again0

    Summertime. Now there’s a word and a season with some magic. For most adults, summer brings homegrown fruits and vegetables, vacations, and a slower pace of life. For me, summer bestows the special pleasure of drinking coffee early in the morning on my front porch before the day heats up, enjoying the chorus of songbirds

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  • Critical Race Theory Is Worse Than Marxism

    Critical Race Theory Is Worse Than Marxism0

    The swear words “Marxist” and “revolutionary” are now thrown around by conservatives, such as those at Heritage, the New York Post, and Fox News, with the same abandon with which the left speaks about “human rights” or “marriage,” particularly in relation to the concept of Critical Race Theory (CRT). But as someone who has studied Marxism extensively,

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  • Cognitive Dissonance Is the Glue of the Democratic Party

    Cognitive Dissonance Is the Glue of the Democratic Party0

    The Democratic leadership and its “woke” leftist allies have been held together thus far by their hatred of both the right and of normal people. But the glue that binds that coalition is starting to dissolve, Chronicles editor-in-chief Paul Gottfried argues in a recent article for American Greatness. He suggests that the conflicting interests and loyalties of the intersectional left, with

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  • The Next Great Scandal: Photoshopped Modesty

    The Next Great Scandal: Photoshopped Modesty0

    There’s a new censorship scandal afoot: it involves school yearbook pictures, a little too much skin, and some lousy Photoshop skills. Blond, smiling ninth-grader Riley O’Keefe was one of the “victims” of some aggressive photoshopping of her yearbook pictures by high school administrators. O’Keefe’s original school picture featured a gray sweater over a low-cut black

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  • Merkel Flips Off Biden’s Protest—to Buy Putin’s Gas

    Merkel Flips Off Biden’s Protest—to Buy Putin’s Gas0

    When the U.S. created NATO, a primary purpose of the alliance was to serve as a western wall to defend Germany against the 400,000 Russian troops on the eastern side of the Elbe River. Seventy years later, Germany has decided to double its dependence on Vladimir Putin’s Russia for the natural gas needed to run

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  • Why There Are So Few Female Chess Grandmasters

    Why There Are So Few Female Chess Grandmasters0

    Only those of very hard hearts can fail to admire Beth, the heroine of Walter Tevis’s magnificent novel, and now a popular television series, The Queen’s Gambit. We love the idea of her, a girl who makes good, starting off from very modest beginnings. She overcomes alcohol and drug addictions and rises to the very top

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  • The ‘Woke’ Are Sleeping on China

    The ‘Woke’ Are Sleeping on China0

    Every day I read online about systemic racism, transgender issues, President Joe Biden’s latest faux pas, and other American social ills. All well and good. I’ve written about some of these same issues as well. But are we elevating the trivial at the expense of the significant? Many of our citizens are focused on the

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  • The Forgotten Reason for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    The Forgotten Reason for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict0

    “The U.S. Can Neither Ignore nor Solve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” was the headline of Martin Indyk’s May 14 article in Foreign Affairs. Washington may not be able to end that conflict, he wrote, but must actively manage it. Indyk, a former U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace under President Barack Obama, and who served two separate

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