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Commentary


The American Spectator: Italy, Giorgia Meloni, and the Future of the West

04/29/2025

The future of the American project is bound up with the future of Western civilization.

National Review: The Meaning of J. R. R. Tolkien’s ‘Leaf by Niggle’

01/30/2025

What a little-known work of Tolkien can teach us.

National Review: The Power of the Christmas Truce of 1914

01/03/2025

A few months into the killing fields of World War I, soldiers reclaimed their shared humanity. Those who found hope amid chaos offer a lesson for us today.

National Review: The West Is Abandoning Its Free-Speech Legacy

10/08/2024

Look to Venice, once the publishing center of the world, for an early example of vigorous open discourse now being pushed aside in Europe and elsewhere.

National Review: A Founding Father’s Stirring Condemnation of Slavery

07/10/2024

To Benjamin Rush, if liberty and equality were the birthright of every human soul, then slavery must be the enemy of the American Revolution. 


The American Spectator: A Frail President in a Hostile World

07/09/2024

Biden’s frailty harkens back to the 1945 Yalta Conference, where the sick and feeble Roosevelt was no match for Stalin.

National Review: A Christian Prophet’s Unheeded Warning to the Academy

05/08/2024

Lessons from one observer of campus chaos decades ago ring even truer today.

National Affairs: Locke, Virtue, and a Liberal Education

04/10/2024

Following the Boston Massacre in March 1770, the Massachusetts lawyer and patriot Josiah Quincy, Jr., joined John Adams in defending the British soldiers involved.

National Review: When the United Nations Actually Stood for Something Good

01/04/2024

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, passed 75 years ago today, issued a bold challenge to the Soviet Union and all tyrannies. That challenge stands.