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Kanye Among the Groypers

Ben Sixsmith

Before last week, one would have assumed that if Kanye West and Nicholas J. Fuentes became pals, West would be the one to suffer from the association. After all,...

Freedom After Communism

Ben Sixsmith

Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by lea ypi w. w. norton, 288 pages, $27.95 Behind the Iron Curtain, everyone valued freedom. But they...

Challenges Ahead for Poland’s Conservatives

Ben Sixsmith

The recent Polish elections ended in a resounding victory for the ruling national conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party. PiS won 43.6 percent of the vote for the Sejm,...

A World Without Mothers

Ben Sixsmith

Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Familyby sophie lewis verso, 224 pages, $26.95 Now that Western elites have agreed that abortion is legitimate and that transgender people deserve unqualified acceptance, ultra-woke theorists...

The Fusionism That Failed

Ben Sixsmith

Understanding the upheavals of American conservatism requires the study of its ­history—in particular, the fortunes of Frank Meyer, inventor of the Cold War synthesis that reigned for decades as...