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A Portrait Of The New Right In Forty-Four Stories

They call themselves the New Right. They’re also known as the Online Right, and during Trump’s first term, the Alt-Right. Many of them are proud provocateurs with questionable pseudonyms – Bronze Age Pervert, Endlessbonerz, Raw Egg…

The Best World War II Movie You’ve Never Seen

“We are believers in the myth of World War II,” wrote history scholar Alec Ryrie in a recent piece for First Things. It is “our religion.” By this, Ryrie means that in the absence of a unifying faith in our increasingly post-Christian age,…

Putting America First Means Putting Children First

For many decades, the notion of a child-centered politics has traditionally been relegated to the social conservative wing of the Republican Party. And for much of that time, social conservatives were always the shorter leg of the wobbly…

How America’s War On Marriage Threatens Democracy

“Marriage is an inherently negligent activity. It’s like owning a lion. The likelihood of someone getting hurt is very, very high.” Those are some cynical words of wisdom from James Sexton, a divorce attorney who appears on an episode of…

A Literary Giant Confronts His Would-Be Assassin

The first thing you notice when picking up Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Salman Rushdie’s account of surviving an assassination attempt two years ago, is the photo. The iconic image of the legendary writer — eyebrows cocked…

How Gambling Explains Our Modern, Complex World

If you were to watch “Moneyball” today, you might find it quaint. You may recall the premise: In a world before “data-driven decisions” was a cliché, a likable nerd played by Jonah Hill helps craft a baseball roster from a spreadsheet,…

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