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January 7, 2024
Lecturing Conservatives About Authoritarianism

On the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, President Joe Biden and the Democrats still operate as if this one terrible afternoon is the No. 1 issue of the 2024 campaign.

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January 5, 2024
A BDS Movement Conservatives Can Support

Conservatives have generally opposed the progressive left’s years-long effort to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) countries and companies the left doesn’t like. Israel is usually at the top of that BDS list. But given the deplorable nonresponse of so many colleges and universities to their students’ support for Hamas, maybe it’s time for a conservative BDS movement: cutting federal funds to…

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January 5, 2024
President Gay is a Symptom

The resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay after “facing national backlash for her administration’s response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and allegations of plagiarism in her scholarly work” does not solve the problem at America’s oldest college and other elite schools.

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January 5, 2024
Economic Myths

As a new year dawns, it’s customary to reflect on the past and set resolutions for the future. This year, let’s resolve to greet three widespread claims with healthy doses of skepticism.

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January 5, 2024
Values Voters?

Wall Street Journal reporter Molly Ball recently published a story explaining how pro-abortion rights Democrats have “changed their message.” They are reaching into the conservative playbook and commandeering terms that have long been associated with the center-right movement.

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January 5, 2024
Biden vs. Trump

Biden and Trump really are the candidates we’ve wanted all along.  

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January 5, 2024
Religious Expression in Defense Authorization Bill

Aggrieved atheists, annoyed agnostics and others troubled by a Nativity display, Hanukkah menorah or a poster celebrating Eid al-Fitr at a U.S. military base, might now have a harder time succeeding.

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January 4, 2024
Release of Epstein’s Court Records

The first of the more than 150 names of people allegedly associated with the late sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein were released by a court on Wednesday.

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January 4, 2024
Are You a Maker or a Taker?

Politicians are often takers. They take our money (and freedom) in the name of achieving goals they rarely achieve. Elon Musk and Sen. Elizabeth Warren may be the best examples of maker and taker.

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January 4, 2024
Harvard and DEI

By: Christopher F. Rufo – wsj.com – January 3, 2024 The left has spent decades consolidating power across the institutions of American academic life. The crowning achievement of that effort was the diversity, equity and inclusion bureaucracy—constructed to perpetuate progressive dominance of higher education by keeping conservatives out of the professoriate. Claudine Gay was in some respects the apotheosis of…

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January 4, 2024
Harvard Lost

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – January 3, 2024 Let’s not lose sight of the significance of this outcome. I have heard it lamented in recent days that, despite the scale and consequence of the evidence that was presented against her, the removal of Claudine Gay from the presidency of Harvard University still took “far too long.” This,…

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