In the Tradition of Liberty.
In the Tradition of Liberty.
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Brad Littlejohn
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We’ve all seen the headlines: Johnny can’t read anymore. Reading scores are plummeting. Forty-six percent of Americans didn’t read a single book in the past year. Young people no longer read for pleasure. The ability of most college students to comprehend even a paragraph of decent English prose is all but non-existent. We don’t even need to click the…
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The early 2010s television series The Newsroom has not aged well, its moral earnestness about the singular vocation of the Fourth Estate having long since run aground in the era of “fake news” and politicized fact-checking. As a snapshot of American ideals during the Obama years, however, it remains memorable. Consider the famous opening scene of the…
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In his perceptive review of Christine Rosen’s important new book, The Extinction of Experience, Robert Bellafiore puts his finger on the fundamental challenge of tech criticism in an age of techno-euphoria: is it doomed only ever to preach to the already converted? “If you know that vlogging your morning makeup routine or fleeing to the Metaverse…
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Nearly all observers of our body politic are now agreed: the patient is very sick. Such unanimity is bracing and clarifying; no more false reassurances to seduce the patient into complacency. But what to do? It’s hard to say without a clear diagnosis. By some lights, the patient is sick unto death and we had…
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Since its creation more than six decades ago by Frank Meyer and his associates, “fusionism” has enjoyed both a glittering track record of political success and a dismal legacy of failure. As a political movement, it scored some remarkable electoral successes, and helped the Republican Party, seemingly stuck in perpetual minority status, achieve parity in…