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Denying J.D. Vance the White House in 2028 is the Republican establishment’s last, desperate hope for defeating MAGA

Opponents of affirmative action hoped that the Supreme Court had delivered a death blow to the controversial policy in 2023 when Chief Justice John Roberts declared for the court’s majority that

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Although the Trump administration’s action in Venezuela is in America’s rational self-interest, there is no shortage of neoconservatives hoping to extend the operation for their ideological purposes.

Daily News from Edmund Burke Foundation(NL)’s “NationalConservatism.org” The National Conservatism Conferences and study group represents a rich source of intellectual capacity for advancing good in the earth. Numerous conferences, essays and reports are uploaded regularly to the site. Come back to https://Watchman.News for news updates every hour. Find news from many other outlets that work […]

Since the early days of the second Trump administration, critics have accused the president of unnecessarily alienating our allies in the European Union—pointing to conflicts over trade, regulation, the war in Ukraine, and free speech.

Trump’s interventions may be perilous, but they are far more restrained than those of his liberal predecessors.

American military power should be used to secure and safeguard American interests. That’s what happened in Caracas.

Heritage Foundation faces exodus after president’s controversial video remarks defending Tucker Carlson, with experts fleeing to Mike Pence’s think tank.

Daily News from Edmund Burke Foundation(NL)’s “NationalConservatism.org” The National Conservatism Conferences and study group represents a rich source of intellectual capacity for advancing good in the earth. Numerous conferences, essays and reports are uploaded regularly to the site. Come back to https://Watchman.News for news updates every hour. Find news from many other outlets that work […]

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

Daily News from Edmund Burke Foundation(NL)’s “NationalConservatism.org” The National Conservatism Conferences and study group represents a rich source of intellectual capacity for advancing good in the earth. Numerous conferences, essays and reports are uploaded regularly to the site. Come back to https://Watchman.News for news updates every hour. Find news from many other outlets that work […]

The West’s Jew-free future?

The problem with the evangelical elite is that there isn’t one. All too few evangelical Christians hold senior positions in the ­culture-shap­ing domains of American ­society. Evangelicals don’t run…

IntroductionThe bullet that killed Charlie Kirk appears to have shattered the conservative right in America. Many are talking about it.  There was already a growing shadow long before Septembe…