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Has Conservative Rationalism Failed?
1 minute
Week of July 15 2019 Opening

Has Conservative Rationalism Failed?
28 minutes
Week of July 1 2019 Response

Founders Keepers
3 minutes
Week of July 1 2019 Response

Nationalism and the Moral Imagination
6 minutes
Week of July 1 2019 Response

The War Over American Pride
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What's Wrong With Education
12 minutes
Week of July 1 2019 Opening

Remake Higher Ed—Before it Unmakes America
14 minutes
Week of July 1 2019 Response

High Noon at the American Academy
12 minutes
Week of July 1 2019 Response

The Illiberal Libertarianism of Higher Education
6 minutes
Week of July 1 2019 Response

Challenge the College Cartel
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Refounding the Right
8 minutes
Week of June 12 2019 Opening

Why the New Right Rises
8 minutes
Week of June 12 2019 Response

Recovering America: What’s at Stake in the Ahmari-French Debate
6 minutes
Week of June 12 2019 Response

The American Founding Was Not Libertarian Liberalism
6 minutes
Week of June 12 2019 Response

Retrieving Greatness for a Digital Age
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Of Creed and Culture
3 minutes
Week of May 13 2019 Opening

The Crisis of American National Identity
5 minutes
Week of May 13 2019 Response

Creed and Culture in Clown World
5 minutes
Week of May 13 2019 Response

Pluribus et Unum
6 minutes
Week of May 13 2019 Response

No Creed Without Culture
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Saving the Union—Again?
5 minutes
Week of May 6 2019 Opening

Recovering Americanism
6 minutes
Week of June 12 2019 Response

Multiculturalism Is Not the Civil Rights Movement
12 minutes
Week of June 3 2019 Response

Only the Right Can Build A Just Society
5 minutes
Week of May 20 2019 Response

How Multiculturalism Deflects Its Critics
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Facing the Identity Politics Threat
2 minutes
Week of April 22 2019 Opening

Justice? That Ain’t It, Chief
5 minutes
Week of April 22 2019 Response

The Contradiction at the Heart of Identity Politics
4 minutes
Week of April 22 2019 Response

The Moral Basis of Identity Politics
5 minutes
Week of April 22 2019 Response

Their Sin, Your Penance
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Multiculturalism vs. America
3 minutes
Week of April 8 2019 Opening

Winning the New Irrepressible Conflict
1 minute
Week of April 8 2019 Response

Norman Podhoretz on Trump’s Virtues
6 minutes
Week of April 8 2019 Response

Mass Culture: Multiculturalism vs. Education
3 minutes
Week of April 8 2019 Response

The Identity Politics Playbook
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Woke Supremacy?
2 minutes
Week of April 1 2019 Opening

The Redefinition of Racism
5 minutes
Week of April 1 2019 Response

The Mask of Social Justice Slips
3 minutes
Week of April 1 2019 Response

To Win on Race, the Right Must Face Reality
4 minutes
Week of April 1 2019 Response

Fake Bigotry, Real Money
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The Nationalism We Need
2 minutes
Week of March 25 2019 Opening

Post-Trump Politics
5 minutes
Week of March 25 2019 Response

Stop America’s Woke Seminaries—Now
4 minutes
Week of March 25 2019 Response

Schooling Choice
8 minutes
Week of March 25 2019 Response

Pull the Plug on Fun Time
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Realignment on the Right
16 minutes
Week of March 18 2019 Opening

The End of Economic Elitism?
14 minutes
Week of March 18 2019 Response

A Reformist and Populist Party
7 minutes
Week of March 18 2019 Response

Seeing Past the Past
20 minutes
January 9 2019 Response

Tucker Carlson Is Right
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A New Conservative Agenda?
2 minutes
Week of March 11 2019 Opening

Nationalism for the Twenty-First Century
8 minutes
Week of March 11 2019 Response

Americans Want Greatness, Not Just Jobs
6 minutes
Week of March 11 2019 Response

Conserving the Land of Opportunity
5 minutes
Week of March 11 2019 Response

From Conservative Agenda to Americanist Consensus?
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SOTU 2019
3 minutes
Week of January 28 2019 Opening

State of The Union, 2019
3 minutes
Week of January 28 2019 Response

Make Democrats Offers They Can’t Refuse
5 minutes
Week of January 28 2019 Response

Trump Should Confront the Culture War
5 minutes
Week of January 28 2019 Response

America Needs to Relearn Economics
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What Democracy Requires
3 minutes
Week of January 21 2019 Opening

What Democracy Requires
6 Minutes
Week of January 21 2019 Response

Neoconservatism: The Lessons Learned
8 Minutes
Week of January 21 2019 Response

Claremont vs. Foreign Policy Establishment
5 minutes
Week of January 21 2019 Response

The Post-Despot Democracy Dilemma
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The Death of The Weekly Standard
7 minutes
Week of January 14 2019 Opening

The Death of The Weekly Standard
6 minutes
Week of January 14 2019 Response

A Partial Defense of The Weekly Standard
5 minutes
Week of January 14 2019 Response

Mugged by Hyperreality
3 minutes
Week of January 14 2019 Response

The Squandering of the Standard
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Can Political Philosophy Guide Science?
2 minutes
Week of January 6 2019 Opening

Strauss, Science, & the Crisis of Liberalism
5 minutes
Week of January 6 2019 Response

The Strange Morality of the Empiricist Evangelists
8 minutes
Week of January 6 2019 Response

Scientific Crisis, Philosophical Guidance
15 minutes
Week of January 6 2019 Response

Keeping Nature in Science—and Politics
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Diagnosing Academia's Disease
3 minutes
Week of December 17 2018 Opening

Diagnosing Academia’s Disease
6 minutes
Week of December 17 2018 Response

What We Can Know: Natural Law Properly Understood
5 minutes
Week of December 17 2018 Response

Our Perverse Puritanism: It’s Not Relativism—It’s Religion.
5 minutes
Week of December 17 2018 Response

Ideas Still Matter: Relativism Remains
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Citizen Statesmen: Cotton on Foreign Policy
13 minutes
Week of December 3 2018 Opening

Citizen Statesmen: Cotton on Foreign Policy
8 minutes
Week of December 3 2018 Response

The End of Fantasy
4 minutes
Week of December 3 2018 Response

The Barbarians Are Always With Us
4 minutes
Week of December 3 2018 Response

Which America First?
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The Reichstag is Still Burning
47 minutes
Week of November 26 2018 Opening

“The Reichstag is Still Burning”: Harry Jaffa’s Prophetic Farewell to Higher Education
7 minutes
Week of November 26 2018 Response

The Loss of Learning and the Vocationalization of Higher Education
5 minutes
Week of November 26 2018 Response

Defund the Ivies!
4 minutes
Week of November 26 2018 Response

The Academy of Hatred, Not Relativism
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A Claremont Thanksgiving
2 minutes
Week of November 19 2018 Opening

Thank You
Week of November 19 2018 Response

Before Lincoln: The Thanksgiving Wars (Peterson, Wolfe, and Rice)
Week of November 19 2018 Response

Lincoln’s Thanksgiving: Nature’s God (Guelzo, Brookhiser, Bottum, and Dyer)
Week of November 19 2018 Response

The Problem of Gratitude (Royal, Azerrad, Melonic, and Peterson)
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2018 Fellowship Alumni Retreat
Opening

2018 Fellowship Alumni Retreat
20 minutes
Response

The Struggle Ahead
9 minutes
Response

Remembering Roger L. Beckett
4 minutes
Response

In Honor of Michael M. Uhlmann
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Thinking about Trump
2 minutes
Week of November 5 2018 Opening

Thinking About “Thinking About Trump”
6 minutes
Week of November 5 2018 Response

The Breaking Of The Never Trump Mind
6 minutes
Week of November 5 2018 Response

The Era of Conservative Torpor is Over
3 minutes
Week of November 5 2018 Response

Hard American Pride
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The Birthright Citizenship Debate
10 minutes
UPDATED March 18 2019 Opening

The Case Against Birthright Citizenship
6 minutes
March 18 2019 Response

Birthright Questions, Founding Answers
6 minutes
Week of October 22 2018 Response

It’s the Citizenship, Stupid
21 minutes
Week of October 22 2018 Response

The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment: the Congressional Debate
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Post-Kavanaugh: The Cold Civil War
5 minutes
Week of October 15 2018 Opening

Decisive Political Victory is the Only Way to End This Cold Civil War
5 minutes
Week of October 15 2018 Response

Consensus As Surrender
9 minutes
Week of October 15 2018 Response

Why Conservatism Failed
11 minutes
Week of October 15 2018 Response

The Twilight of the NeverTrumpers
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Latest Responses

Founders Keepers

Only justice preserves regimes, not history or tradition.

Aug06

Consensus As Surrender

The era of Progressive mythology is over.

Oct17

The Struggle Ahead

Remarks accepting the Claremont Institute’s Henry Salvatori Prize for helping to secure the teachings of the American founding. Washington, D.C., October 27, 2018

Nov16

Before Lincoln: The Thanksgiving Wars (Peterson, Wolfe, and Rice)

Thanksgiving Wasn't Always a Source of National Unity.

Nov21

Thanksgiving in the American Republic: 2018

We must not ignore our extraordinary blessings.

Nov21