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The party’s activist wing is formidable.

Apr 21 2025
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Those alleging that the United States imprisons too many people rely on faulty history and bad facts.

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An executive order can restore the game to its rightful place as a symbol of inspiration and American character.

Apr 20 2025
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It would be a simpler way to synthesize the skills of getting on base and hitting for power.

Mar 18 2025
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Whatever the outcome in November, the city will get (another) highly flawed leader.

Jul 01 2025
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Kay S. Hymowitz The New Girl Disorder

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Jonathan Clarke The Fast Casual Society

Our abandonment of standards of dress means the loss of expressive potential and our sense of occasion.

Apr 14 2023
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Theodore Dalrymple Why We Love Falstaff

There is some of Shakespeare’s incorrigible rogue in all of us.

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Jeffrey H. Anderson A Woke Jefferson Memorial?

The National Park Service should halt current efforts to make the memorial’s once-excellent basement museum into a condemnation of the author of the Declaration of Independence.

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His plans to mark the semiquincentennial in 2026 offer an appropriate opportunity to do so in Washington.

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Tim Rice America in Full

Wilfred McClay’s Land of Hope proves that there is no contradiction between knowing American history and loving America.

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A new generation of defense innovators emerges in El Segundo.

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