Recent polls indicate that many people under 30 view socialism and communism favorably. (For Marx, those words were synonyms.) It seems that socialism and communism are "in." What's going on? A self-described "democratic socialist," Zohran Mamdani, won the Democratic...
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William F. Buckley (Properly) Remembered
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Aug 7, 2025 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
To memorialize William F. Buckley Jr., as Sam Tanenhaus does in his recent biography and Charles King does in his review, is to celebrate the betrayal of the American conservative tradition. This betrayal was not incidental to Buckley’s career—it was its defining...
U.S. Economic Pressure is Tightening a Multipolar World
by Ted Snider | Aug 7, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
U.S. tariffs wear the cloak of financial policy to address trade imbalances, but they mask deeper geopolitical ambitions. That strategy may backfire. The pressure of U.S. tariffs is firming up the multipolar world it is meant to prevent. Pressure from sanctions has...
The Hawk’s 1945 Project
by Clark Patterson | Aug 6, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History
Two weeks ago at The Free Press (TFP), Rebeccah L. Heinrichs of the Hudson Institute wrote a 3,000-word article critiquing conservative disapproval of President Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran last month. Heinrichs linked this conservative denunciation of Trump’s...
George Orwell’s Case Against the Atomic Bomb
by James Rushmore | Aug 6, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In October 1945, George Orwell wrote an article titled “You and the Atom Bomb” for the socialist publication Tribune. Orwell’s piece makes a compelling argument against the atomic bomb, noting the myriad ways in which it maximizes state power and enables a handful of...
How the Economy is Rigged Against You
by Thomas Eddlem | Aug 5, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics
Young middle class workers are struggling financially, while everyone knows the billionaire class is doing quite well. The reason is because Washington has insidiously and thoroughly rigged the tax and regulatory system against the working poor and middle class,...
Betraying Lakshmi for Lenin: How Socialism Hijacked Indian Constitutionalism
by Shashank Shukla | Aug 5, 2025 | Featured Articles
On June 26, 2025, during an event commemorating fifty years since the imposition of Emergency, RSS National General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale questioned the inclusion of the words “Secular” and “Socialist” in the Preamble of the Indian Constitution. These were...
The Constitution, Foreign Wars, and the Tenth Amendment
by Alan Mosley | Aug 4, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
When a sitting U.S. president decides to commit tens of billions of dollars’ worth of weapons to foreign conflicts, ordinary citizens seldom ask whether such largesse has a constitutional basis. Yet America was founded on the principle that the federal government is...