The Long Slide: Thirty Years in American Journalism, by Tucker Carlson. The book evokes a bygone age, an era of magazine and newspaper journalism that seems golden in retrospect, and is now so completely gone that one must strain to imagine that it ever existed at all.

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This Thanksgiving, no one living in the United States should be anything but profoundly grateful for the privilege of living in this country. No one. That’s not necessarily a popular sentiment today.

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In 1959, a former Catholic with a fondness for psychedelic mushrooms, Zen Buddhism, and Arab culture entered the Oregon Dunes intending to write an ecological research article. Frank Herbert emerged months later with the most beloved and influential science fiction novel of all time: Dune.

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Charles Murray On Race, IQ, And Crime. The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Charles Murray joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America.

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Contemporary progressivism faces a pressing dilemma. It must continue the sexual revolution’s legacy of free love and sex-positivity, but it must do so in a Pornhub age, in which maximal sexual liberty has produced not an egalitarian paradise but a brutal human marketplace.

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A New, Dark Left. The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. David Horowitz joins the podcast to discuss his recent book The Enemy Within: How a Totalitarian Movement is Destroying America.

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Zemmour’s rise coincides with a paradigm shift in French society: the increased willingness of those in the public square to criticize the left. The longstanding custom in French public life was that when it came to social and cultural matters, the left was exempt from criticism.

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I have been a professor at Bucknell University for twenty years. It is my considered view that a parent with the best interests of a male child at heart should be intensely concerned about what he is likely to experience at a school like the one in which I work.

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Why I Didn't “Just Bake the Cake”. The following is excerpted and adapted from The Cost of My Faith: How a Decision in My Cake Shop Took Me to the Supreme Court, released this week. Jack is the owner and artist of Masterpiece Cakeshop who was sued for not baking a cake for a same-sex couple.

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In his 1944 lecture “The Inner Ring” C. S. Lewis made a profound observation about social exclusivity, one applicable to today’s institutions of higher learning. The academy rewards narrow, trendy agendas that impose upon human experience the procrustean narratives of anger, grievance, and division.

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Jane Austen‘s Comic Moralism | Peter J. Leithart. Austen is funny not in spite of her moral firmness but because of it. As Lewis observed, “the hard core of morality and even of religion seems to me to be just what makes good comedy possible.”

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What is Woke Capital? | Mark Bauerlein. Stephen R. Soukup joins the podcast to discuss his recent book The Dictatorship of Woke Capital: How Political Correctness Captured Big Business.

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1620 | Mark Bauerlein | First Things. Peter W. Wood joins the podcast to discuss his recent book 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project.

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How to counsel parents of teenage girls who will not drink anything before going to school lest they have to use the bathrooms that, thanks to the stroke of President Biden’s pen, are now open to teenage boys who think—or claim—to have been born in the wrong bodies.

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When Amazon Erased My Book | Ryan T. Anderson. My book When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment was released exactly three years ago. They were threatened by it and wanted to discredit it lest anyone pick it up and learn from it.

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Systemic Racism at Planned Parenthood. Abortion is devastating the black community. Eighty percent of Planned Parenthood's abortion clinics are within easy walking distance of minority neighborhoods and 60 percent are in minority zip codes. Black lives don't matter.

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There’s a popular theory about how our financial markets work. The GameStop meltdown has revealed the unspoken corollary: that the markets are right and efficient and so forth so long as they’re run by the right people. Josh Hawley is the junior United States Senator from Missouri.

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Suicide of the Liberals. "He pointed out the absurdity of liberal intolerance and the suicidal insanity of backing bloodthirsty revolutionaries. After the Bolshevik takeover, he blamed liberals for the disastrous consequences they might have prevented."

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The New American Right. After too many decades of liberty without ends, freedom without limits, in many situations the new right must re-erect lost barriers. We need to restore the balance between liberty and responsibility, between personal freedom and an awareness of what freedom is for.

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Kamala Harris’s Record of Anti-Catholic Bigotry. Together with Joe Biden, never have two people with such open hostility to Catholic faith and practice been so close to the two highest offices in American politics.

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THE TRAGEDY OF TRANSHOOD

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Suicide of the Liberals | Gary Saul Morson

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Suicide of the Liberals | Gary Saul Morson

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The Revolution Comes for Oliver Stone | Mark Judge

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GAY Billionaire, Jon Stryker, Funds Global TRA Strategy

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The Bookish Life

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Europe's Libyan Battleground | Alessandra Bocchi

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