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“Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.”

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Mass Corruption
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Who Should Steer the Bus?
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Instead of Kidnapping
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The Unfairness of Losing
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What’s Love Got to Do With It?
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Abolish. Or Set in Stone
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Destroying Dane Farming
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Disaster Relief Pass-Over
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Exemplary Rejections
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Not Now
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Knock Down the Incumbency
SharingOver the weekend, I suffered through Knock Down the House … …
The Demand for Term Limits
Lots of talk about term limits last week — in Washington. Of …
Tupperware Really Locks You In
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Like Zimbabwe
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The Next Election
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Packing
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The Last Straw
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Abolishing You
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Extremist Against Charity
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Test of Humanity
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Once the most potent moral figure in Western culture was Jesus Christ. Believer or unbeliever, you took your ethical bearings from him, or professed to. To question his morals was to expose yourself as a monster. Now, the most potent moral figure in Western culture is Adolf Hitler. It is as monstrous to praise him as it would once have been to disparage Jesus. He has become the fixed reference point by which we define evil.
Alec Ryrie, Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt (November 2019). See also “The End of the Age of Hitler,” First Things, November 2024.

— Alec Ryrie

An Argument in Favor of Term Limits
“As a lobbyist, I was completely against term limits, and I know a lot …
On This Day: January 27, End to Military Draft
The day the U.S. military draft ended: To download the full-size …
What He Says and What He Means
A handy reference chart.
Why government is (almost) never the solution…
When you systematically reward failure, incompetence and irresponsibility…what results should …
Wasted Votes
“The only wasted vote is a vote cast without conviction.” –Daniel Hannan …