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National Review

It’s Time to Transform the WTO

The international trading system as we know it is ending. Republicans can seize the opportunity to reimagine it, writes Nicholas Phillips in National Review.

City Journal

Fighting for Fatherhood

With the Left’s hostile response to Florida’s initiative to support responsible fathers, conservatives can occupy the high ground on this crucial issue, writes Patrick T. Brown in City Journal.

The National Interest

Why Nationalism Will Win the Twenty-First Century

Most Americans take it for granted that there is an American people or nation with its own particular culture and traditions, and that the human race in the world as a whole is divided among culturally distinct peoples or nations.

Common Sense by Bari Weiss

The Case for American Seriousness

“We don’t need aging institutions to pave the way for 21st-century dynamism. What we need is will. And audacity,” writes Katherine Boyle in Bari Weiss’ Common Sense.

Coalition for a Prosperous America

The GATT: A Retrospective

The GATT at 75: taking a hard look and challenging the prevailing narrative.

The American Conservative

Iraq Invasion: The Road To Folly

“A war that fails to achieve clear political objectives is merely an exercise in violence and futility,” Eric S. Margolis wrote in the first piece published in The American Conservative in the lead-up to the Iraq War.

Tablet Magazine

The End of Citizenship

Having converted their own republic into a borderless credit union, Americans have to borrow other people’s national pride.

Aeon

Why Nation-States Are Good

The nation-state remains the best foundation for capitalism, and hyper-globalisation risks destroying it.

City Journal

Where Is the Right Going? A Conversation

Our president Saurabh Sharma discussed the emerging conservative realignment on the Manhattan Institute-hosted panel, ‘Who’s Right? Millennials, Gen Z, and the Future of American Conservatism’ in Navy Yard, D.C. This is the transcript of that conversation.

Censorship and Social Cancer (feat. Prof. Adam Candeub)

In Today’s episode of “Moment of Truth,” Saurabh and Nick sit down with Professor Adam Candeub, a Professor of Law and Director of the Intellectual Property, Information & Communications Law Program at Michigan State University, and Senior Fellow at the Center for Renewing America, to discuss the longterm consequences of social media and pornography addiction, TikTok, Big Tech, and what if anything can be done to right these social ills.

American Moment Studios

Cancelling Rogan Theory Practice and Praxis (feat. Wokal Distance)

Saurabh and Nick sit down with the twitter-famous, anti-critical race theory thread-master @wokal_distance, to discuss the cancellation of Joe Rogan and the little-known leftist super-pacs behind the disinformation campaign to silence his podcast, as well as everything wrong with postmodernism and critical theory.

California Newsreel

Berkeley In The Sixties (Documentary)

In this Oscar-winning documentary, participants in the early years of UC Berkely’s political activism recount the tumultuous 1960s and the emergence of the incorrect worldview that students’ opinions matter more than their education. Interesting to view in the light of modern-day campus activism, common harassment tactics of the yuppie left can be observed in their infancy in this film.

THINKFilm

Antarctica: Encounters at the End of the World (Documentary)

This Oscar-nominated documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog explores, like many of his films, individuals in conflict with nature, in all of its harsh and unforgiving beauty. The film tells the story of those tasked with exploring God’s greatest wonders on this earth in Antarctica, adapting to survive and embodying strength in these impossible conditions.

American Moment Studios

2 Years of Tyranny (feat. Dr. Scott Atlas)

In Today’s episode of “Moment of Truth,” Saurabh and Nick sit down with Dr. Scott Atlas, former White House Coronavirus Task Force Advisor, author of “A Plague Upon Our House,” and Senior Fellow in Healthcare Policy at the Hoover Institution, to discuss “the most egregious failure of public health in modern history” also known as the tyrannical Birx-Fauci plan, why Florida responded differently than other states, and what future leaders must do to defeat “the swamp” and restore liberty in America.

City Journal

Distort the Present, Rewrite the Past

Following the lead of other major cultural institutions, the Metropolitan Museum of Art redefines its purpose as overcoming the racism of Western civilization.

The National Interest

A Grand Strategy of Restraint Needs a ‘Counter Elite’

The American foreign policy establishment prefers meddling around the globe because it can afford to without cost or political price. What is needed is a new foreign policy establishment elite based on the principles of realism and restraint.

Salon.com

Who’s Afraid of Industrial Policy?

“Government support of industry is in the American tradition,” Michael Lind wrote back in 2012 in this brief history of industrial policy in the US.

The American Conservative

A Case For Getting Married

At a time when Valentine’s Day has become grotesque, a word should be said for old-fashioned romance and youthful matrimony.

Riverhead Books

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards; he deplores multiculturalism, Marxism, feminism, neoconservatism, Afrocentrism, and the New Historicism.

Family and Culture

We Bought A Crumbling Chateau — And That’s How It Looks Now

A couple purchases a 14th-century Chateau on the French countryside on the cheap, renovating the crumbling building to make a new home for their family. An inspiring piece for married couples looking to purchase a home, or to renovate on your own while thinking outside the box.

Economics

A Deglobalized World

Peter Zeihan offers a perspective on the effects of globalization, and the consequences of recent forces to deglobalize, during the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of China.

City Journal

Opioids and the Unattached Male

“Policymakers should understand that the drug-overdose crisis is a crisis of single men,” writes Patrick T. Brown in City Journal.

The American Conservative

A Weighty Education

“Lifting weights can be a kind of moral training in courage, the opportunity to push the self—not only physically, but spiritually,” writes James Diddams in The American Conservative.

Tablet Magazine

The Thirty Tyrants

The deal that the American elite chose to make with China has a precedent in the history of Athens and Sparta, writes Lee Smith in Tablet Magazine.

The American Conservative

Immigration Debate: The American Conservative vs. The Nation

In our current political climate, the issue of immigration has emerged as perhaps the single most salient political issue in the West. It poses questions that are central to the American experience: What does it mean to be an American? How can we best promote the rule of law, while maintaining our tradition as a nation of immigrants? Is immigration strengthening or weakening our country?

YouTube

America’s Lost Classical Architecture

Despite being a relatively young nation, the United States of America has a wealth of great classical architecture. Some of these masterpieces have unfortunately been lost however, either due to natural disasters, or by being demolished. In this video, ‘Kings and Things’ looks at four such buildings.

Institute for Family Studies

The Drug Epidemic Just Keeps Getting Worse

An overdose explosion in 2020, with high numbers continuing into last year, leads to the most depressing conclusion of all: There is simply no reason whatsoever to think things are getting better, or about to get better soon.

Public Discourse

On Fatherly Figures

Just imagine if all the male professors and teachers who read and write for this blessed journal, who deeply care about the plight of the fatherless, actively sought to mentor their students in the most important subject: life. Imagine if, at the beginning of every term, you each announced, and then demonstrated, your openness and willingness to help your young, impressionable students navigate this next chapter in their lives.