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Why Do the Loneliest Men Speak English?
Where other societies might treat romantic disappointment as a relational misfortune, the Anglophone world reimagines it as ontological destiny and…
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Jay Sophalkalyan
The Apostles of America’s Democracy
For all the blood spilled and fortunes lost on wars and nation-building, America’s most compelling export has never been its weaponry. It has been its…
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Letter IV: On Memorial Day and the Murder of Peacemakers
The death of a soldier is mourned by nations. The death of a peacemaker is mourned by silence.
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Without Borders, Everything Becomes Stolen Land
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Why the Left Keeps Falling for Criminals
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I Came to America for Free Speech—Then I Saw How It’s Policed: Part 1
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I Came to America for Free Speech—Then I Saw How It’s Policed: Part 2
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RedNote Isn’t Real Life
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Letter II: On Fidelity to the Forgotten Creed
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Letter III: On Free Markets and Unfree Men
Trade divorced from virtue is but gilded bondage—prosperity bought at the soul’s expense.
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Letter II: On Fidelity to the Forgotten Creed
Liberty, once severed from virtue and reason, is not liberty but license—an orphan child, raised by demagogues and devoured by mobs.
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Letter I: On the Inconvenience of Memory
In an age of engineered forgetting, the written word must bear the burden of remembrance.
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In Defense of the SAVE Act
Compared to what the people of Cambodia, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Myanmar have endured—what, exactly, are Americans being asked to sacrifice? A form. A…
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I Came to America for Free Speech—Then I Saw How It’s Policed: Part 2
We’ve gone from cancel culture to capture culture. The woke revolution may be over in 2025—but the MAGA revolution is just getting started.
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I Came to America for Free Speech—Then I Saw How It’s Policed: Part 1
When ideology is religion, campus bureaucracy becomes the inquisition.
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Why the Left Keeps Falling for Criminals
If oppression is systemic, working within the system is pointless. Reform isn’t a step forward—it is a concession. Real change, in this view, demands…
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MAGA Needs a Gatekeeper
Reagan benefited from Buckley’s ideological groundwork, but Trump already sits atop the GOP. One might ask: Does neo-fusionism even need a gatekeeper?
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Without Borders, Everything Becomes Stolen Land
Borders, laws, and the nation-state itself emerged to solve this problem: to establish stability and security in a world where might no longer had to…
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RedNote Isn’t Real Life
How much of this glossy portrayal of China aligns with reality? For Americans disillusioned by their country’s shortcomings, it is tempting to see…
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