On November 28, 2020, Di Dongsheng, vice dean of the School of International Relations at Renmin University in Beijing, gave a videotaped lecture in which he said: Why did China and the U.S. used to be able to settle all kinds of issues between 1992 and 2016? It’s just because we have people at the ..
As Leo Strauss put it in Natural Right and History: What was a tolerably accurate description of German thought twenty-seven years ago would now appear to be true of Western thought in general. It would not be the first time that a nation defeated on the battlefield and, as it were, annihilated as a political ..
One of the more common themes in science fiction is alien invasion. The storyline is typically one where the aliens gain a skulking foothold, first to transform the ecosystem, before launching a full-blown conquering of the world. Of course this theme draws upon our own history replete with one civilization invading another, in which success ..
Nations that aren’t advancing are declining, and the measure of advancement for America doesn’t look very good. Whether you look at life expectancy, personal satisfaction, upward mobility, or middle-class income, the statistics are alarming. But that wasn’t the case for the generation just before us. There is no longer fundamental newness. American Greatness Publisher Chris ..
Lamenting the astonishing success of the activist Left’s century-long Gramscian march through America’s major institutions is, at this juncture, old hat. Still, there have been a few recent powerful examples, coming in quick succession, illustrating the extent to which leading liberal institutions of civil society have been captured by far-left activist wokesters who take opportunistic ..
Invariably, no matter the issue, whenever the Left aims to implement a policy proposal it deems innocuous, a triggered Right declares it part of a slippery slope on the road to serfdom. Invariably, too, the Right is correct—as recent developments regarding Canada’s assisted-suicide law show. Why should you care about Canada and assisted suicide? Well, ..
In what only can be categorized as a win for liberty and a pushback against an authoritarian president who asserts power he doesn’t have, a federal appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s preliminary injunction against President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal employees. Judge Andrew Oldham’s opinion Thursday, joined in whole or in part ..
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