The United States is the world’s largest economy, in terms of GDP, with a recent value of $27.72 trillion. What explains American economic success? The answer is quite simple: free markets that transcend local, state, and national lines. As the...
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Sat, 19 Apr 2025 02:16:43 +0000Ta-Nehisi Coates, in his 2023 book, The Message, based on a 10-day West Bank trip, makes broad claims about Israel’s treatment of its Arab citizens. He focused his rhetoric on demonstrating that Israeli practices amount to apartheid by showing parallels...
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Sat, 19 Apr 2025 02:16:41 +0000Where to begin? Where would modern American conservatism be without William F. Buckley Jr.? Born on Nov. 24, 1925, the precocious young man gained national attention by attacking his alma mater in his first book, God and Man at Yale....
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Sat, 19 Apr 2025 02:16:36 +0000When President Donald Trump demanded the “eradication” of the cartels, Americans rallied behind him. Franklin Roosevelt described cartels more than eighty years ago as “weapons of economic warfare” and defined “cartel practices” as those that “restrict the free flow of...
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Sat, 19 Apr 2025 02:13:25 +0000Ashley St. Clair, who had long been director of operations at the conservative satire site the Babylon Bee, and who gave birth to Elon Musk’s baby last year, was offered a deal by Musk: Take $15 million and shut up....
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Sat, 19 Apr 2025 02:13:23 +0000America’s military has been adrift for some time. President Donald Trump’s defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, appears determined to set it back on the proper course. So far, he appears to be on track. He has largely deconstructed the corrosive DEI...
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Sat, 19 Apr 2025 02:05:19 +0000I Published in 36 lavishly illustrated quarto volumes between 1749 and 1804, the Comte de Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi rivaled Denis Diderot’s Encyclopédie as the publishing sensation of the 18th century....
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Sat, 19 Apr 2025 02:05:17 +0000My friend Nina Shea at the Hudson Institute is perhaps the most informed and passionately articulate American voice on behalf of Christians suffering persecution around the world. This morning, she brought my attention to the latest wave of attacks being...
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Sat, 19 Apr 2025 02:05:15 +0000Just as heading into the November election Americans felt that it would be the most consequential in a lifetime, Canadians feel the same about the present contest in Canada. And it is fascinating that the Liberal Party’s strategy leading up...
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Sat, 19 Apr 2025 02:05:12 +0000Good Friday means different things to different people. For me, it’s the day I met my only pet. This was no puppy, iguana, or goldfish. In fact, as a little boy, I had a rooster and, thus, remain partial to...
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