It takes a critical mass of citizens, living by certain virtues and the convictions that undergird them, to make a democracy work so that the result is individual human flourishing and social solidarity. Continue Reading »
The founding consensus combined a salutary emphasis on the necessity of public religion and broadly Christian moral foundations with a liberal forbearance from specifying or enforcing confessional particulars. Continue Reading »
The recent NatCon conference in Miami was animated by an active hope for the nation's political prognosis. Continue Reading »
The West has adopted aspects of the old Kremlin mentality. Continue Reading »
Are the bishops still leading the Catholic Church in America? Continue Reading »
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Not since Ronald Reagan has a president spoken forthrightly of the Ottoman government's ethnic cleansing campaign against Armenians from 1915–23. Why did Biden do so now? Continue Reading »
The Electoral College works even better than the American founders hoped. Continue Reading »
Politically, culturally, and morally, we’re a fractured republic. Continue Reading »
Beginning with his essay “The Flight 93 Election,” published by the Claremont Review of Books in September 2016, Michael Anton has become famous—and infamous—as the foremost intellectual defender of the current president. One can read his new book, The Stakes: America . . . . Continue Reading »
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