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As the United States and Europe part company on free expression, civilization becomes endangered even more.

Yuval Levin champions our founding document’s “essential republicanism.”

We can govern ourselves perfectly well. We just want to be left to do it

Although some advocates look to higher-fertility immigrants to end the baby bust, the direct impact of immigration on national fertility is too small to achieve replacement level. Furthermore, evidence suggests that immigration indirectly depresses native fertility, especially among the working class.

The Supreme Court will likely have the opportunity to acknowledge that the Claremont Institute’s view of the Citizenship Clause is correct.

I expected to find something of a political sideshow at NatCon; instead, I found a movement, perhaps the only one I’d encountered during my time in D.C.

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Shortly after taking the oath of office, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent a cable to every U.S. diplomatic and consular post worldwide. The stark message from the new diplomat: Sweeping changes…

Revoking the security clearances of 51 former intelligence officers represents a revolution.

Talk of a ‘Reform-Tory pact’ is rising up the the political agenda, but Badenoch has come out against the idea.

Militaries must return to the ancient confidence that it is better to kill more of the aggressors’ population than to have lost some of its own.

After fifteen months of war, and brilliant Israeli operations, Hamas and Hizballah have managed to avoid total defeat, and the IDF has not yet managed to secure total victory.

Today on TAP: And the strategic challenge facing the always-conflicted Donald Trump

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Coupling and fertility are falling. In Finland, Mexico, Peru, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey and the US, both metrics point downwards.

Competing grand-strategic visions of Donald Trump’s new American century are emerging.

Remarks to ISI’s American Politics and Government Summit (November 2024)

Trump’s return to the White House augurs the ‘apokálypsis’ of the ancien regime’s secrets

EU leaders are cracking down on dissent like never before.

Hillsborough, Windrush, Grenfell: all appalling national scandals that are listed whenever gross institutional failures are discussed. But there is another that is usually conspicuously absent: the deep moral stain of “grooming gangs”. It is perhaps the greatest racially motivated crime in modern Britain, perpetrated predominantly by men of Pakistani heritage against vulnerable white girls.

The Polish government’s threat to arrest Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and efforts to destroy the opposition are signs that the European nation’s leadership will be a problem for the pr…

My thoughts on the reaction to the grooming gangs debate

The discovery of massive lithium reserves in the US could shift global geopolitics and power a domestic green energy revolution.

A story of catastrophic elite failure

It is untoward to argue that, through an expansive visa system, the potential workforce of one’s country should be replaced with foreigners.