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Letter V: On Truth, Justice, and the American Way
Power untempered by principle invites tyranny; power restrained by duty becomes the guardian of the common good.
Jul 21
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Jay Sophalkalyan
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Letter V: On Truth, Justice, and the American Way
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June 2025
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…
Jun 28
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Jay Sophalkalyan
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Why Do the Loneliest Men Speak English?
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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…
Jun 12
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Jay Sophalkalyan
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The Apostles of America’s Democracy
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May 2025
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.
May 26
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Jay Sophalkalyan
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Letter IV: On Memorial Day and the Murder of Peacemakers
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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.
May 5
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Jay Sophalkalyan
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Letter III: On Free Markets and Unfree Men
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April 2025
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.
Apr 27
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Jay Sophalkalyan
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Letter II: On Fidelity to the Forgotten Creed
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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.
Apr 19
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Jay Sophalkalyan
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Letter I: On the Inconvenience of Memory
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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…
Apr 18
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Jay Sophalkalyan
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In Defense of the SAVE Act
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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.
Apr 2
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Jay Sophalkalyan
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I Came to America for Free Speech—Then I Saw How It’s Policed: Part 2
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March 2025
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.
Mar 20
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Jay Sophalkalyan
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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…
Mar 14
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Why the Left Keeps Falling for Criminals
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February 2025
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?
Feb 11
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Jay Sophalkalyan
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MAGA Needs a Gatekeeper
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