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The French nobleman who loved America

The first time Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, arrived in the United States in 1777, the defining characteristic...

From WWII gunners to pass/fail campuses: How America traded grit for fragility

Over many years, I’ve met a great many seniors. One man was paid 25 cents per day as a plowboy during the Great Depression....

What Alexis de Tocqueville still teaches America about liberty, citizenship, and our next 250 years

I have been reading Tocqueville again lately, prompted by our nation’s semiquincentennial celebrations. Looking at where we are today, it is hard not to...

What our spies cut out of the China file

Two facts now sit in plain sight in the declassified record. Communist China entered the 2020 election with an integrated arsenal capable of shaping...

The Pentagon is cutting red tape — and setting a legal minefield for AI contractors

Three weeks from now, the War Department owes Congress a report that could matter far beyond the Pentagon. Section 1512 of the fiscal 2026...

One year after Charlie Kirk’s death, his own side is giving up on free speech

Next month marks one year since Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while giving a speech at Utah Valley University. In the 12 months...

We finally have Alzheimer’s breakthroughs. Why is Washington holding them back?

Alzheimer’s disease is no longer a distant threat affecting only a small segment of the population. It is a growing national crisis that touches...

Michigan drops freshman grades and society gets even dumber

Whom would you rather hire — a graduate of Animal House or the Big House? The question arises because the University of Michigan became the...

Oldspeak, newspeak, nospeak

Oldspeak Books opened in a converted chapel in the pretty Suffolk village of Long Melford in June 2025. Its founder, Joanne May, saw that...

We can’t live beyond our means forever

The federal government posted a $432.3 billion deficit in July, the biggest since March 2021, when then-President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 stimulus checks sent deficits,...
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