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'Appeasing an Aggressor Never Leads to Peace': Vladimir Kara-Murza
The brave Russian dissident who Putin poisoned and imprisoned stood tall and condemned tyrants, emphasizing that gatherings like LibCon2025 are…
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We Are Well on the Road to an Immigration Police State
A roundup of The UnPopulist’s work in the first six months of Trump’s second term
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Birch Smith
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Yoram Hazony’s National Conservatism Wants to Abandon Liberal Democracy so that the Jewish People Maintain Hegemony in Israel
He wants to give Protestant America the right to disempower other faiths and ethnic groups so that Israel can do the same
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Michael G. Holzman
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The Right's Project to Rewrite History Along MAGA Lines: A Video Roundup
Our early-August collection of clips on Trumpworld's attempts to honor Confederate figures, whitewash history, and provide state funding for an AI…
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Landry Ayres
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The Confirmation of Trump Loyalist Emil Bove to a Powerful Court Shows that Senate Republicans Don’t Care if Anarchy Replaces the Rule of…
It is a deeply cynical move that would have shocked and appalled the Founders
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Gregg Nunziata
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Never Again Should a Sole Superpower Anchor the Liberal International Order
We need a confederation of liberal democracies across continents to uphold a multilateral, rights-based global system
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Shikha Dalmia
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Trump Publicly Fantasizes About Imprisoning Obama: An Executive Watch Roundup
Our early-August selection of the president's latest and greatest assaults on the rule of law
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Robert Tracinski
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Trump Is Extorting Universities in the Name of Intellectual Diversity: A Conversation with Michael S. Roth
Yet many who claim to be concerned about academic freedom are choosing silence or appeasement in the face of an authoritarian shakedown
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Berny Belvedere
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Are Advanced Capitalist Liberal Democracies Victims of Their Own Success? A Conversation with Brink Lindsey
Mass affluence is leading to a crisis of meaning that postliberals are exploiting to knock down liberalism
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Shikha Dalmia
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ICE's Secrecy Is a Giant Leap Forward for a Police State in America: An Executive Watch Roundup
Our late-July selection of the president's latest and greatest assaults on the rule of law
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Robert Tracinski
A Manhattan Institute Manifesto Would Give this President Sweeping Power to Force University Compliance with Right-Wing Demands
The statement is selling a naked ideological agenda as a defense of campus free speech
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Walter Olson
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Should the Heterodox Academy Prioritize Fighting Trump's Authoritarian Assaults Over Wokeness on Campuses? A Conversation with Cathy Young
The outfit's recent conference revealed a deep divide that needs tackling
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Berny Belvedere
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