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Many regard “postliberalism” as a political program. In 1993, when the tide of globalized liberalism was at its highwater mark, the contrarian John Gray published Post-Liberalism: Studies in Political…

In Search of Able-Men and Strong Gods “While old false Formulas are getting trampled everywhere into destruction, new genuine Substances unexpectedly unfold themselves indestructible.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History (1841)

At the gut level, most of our politics can be reduced to a simple question: “Whose fault is it?” Conservatives and liberals blame one another, nationalists point the finger at globalists, and for the woke left, it’s always the fault of straight white men.

Last week, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared the West was over. “What we once called the normative West no longer exists in this form,” he explained. “At best, it is still a geographical…

Was the First Gulf War a mistake? The histor­ian Paul Schroeder thought the answer was “yes.” In his arresting formulation, Operation Desert Storm was “a just, unnecessary…

There is an ugly irony in the timing of Norman Podhoretz’s death on December 16.

My hometown has a particularly nice Polish sandwich shop on the street just opposite the railway station. Or more accurately, the two railway stations; the modern one, and the wonderfully restored…

R. Albert Mohler Jr. | We are at war, and it’s time we admit what’s at stake

For fifteen years I’ve scalped tickets to pay the bills. But in January 2016 I almost managed a real career.

A durable national identity cannot be asserted into being

Sienna Rodgers reveals Reform UK’s plans to address our declining fertility, and speaks to others in Westminster to determine the level of appetite for policy aimed at the birth rate crisis