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The left is at war in Minnesota. America is watching football.
Gunfire, smoke grenades, vehicles charging law enforcement: The scene in Minnesota looks like a war zone.
 • Auron MacIntyre
Conservatives can’t barbecue their way through national collapse
Conservatives want to be left alone.
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Aristotle’s ancient guide to tyranny reads like a modern manual
In “Politics,” Aristotle explains that political rule comes in three basic forms: rule of one, rule of the few, and rule of the many.
 • Auron MacIntyre
The taboo conservatives refuse to confront
There has been a lot of panic, among the conservative commentariat especially, over the growing desire among younger white Americans to receive…
 • Auron MacIntyre
How anti-fascism became the West’s civil religion
At the end of World War II, much of the West stood in ruins.
 • Auron MacIntyre
Culture’s great subversion machine has broken down at last
Netflix just announced its next animated children’s film, “Steps,” a Cinderella inversion in which the evil stepsisters are the real heroes.
 • Auron MacIntyre
Homeowners' associations weren’t supposed to replace civilization
Homeowners’ associations exploded across America beginning in the 1960s.
 • Auron MacIntyre
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