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"This is Eric Kaufmann's chronic problem: he wants solutions that will make all sides happy. He wants to save the old WA...
05/31/2026

"This is Eric Kaufmann's chronic problem: he wants solutions that will make all sides happy. He wants to save the old WASP America and the new, diverse America at the same time. He wants to defeat wokeness without attacking any of its core principles. After all, he shares them."

In the Summer 2024 CRB, Helen Andrews weighs two attempts to explain wokeness, one from liberal demographer Eric Kaufmann, the other from Claremont Senior Fellow Jeremy Carl.

Kaufmann treats wokeness as left-liberalism carried too far, a set of 1960s taboos summarized as minorities good, majorities threatening. His remedy is to chasten the excess and recruit conservatives as foot soldiers for an agenda set by right-leaning liberals. Carl, unburdened by liberal sympathies, offers the firmer ground of net-zero immigration, an end to racial preferences, and a return to equal laws protecting equal rights.

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Turner calls Smith a "day laborer, visionary, seer, money-digger, glass-looker, translator, revelator, prophet, elder, h...
05/30/2026

Turner calls Smith a "day laborer, visionary, seer, money-digger, glass-looker, translator, revelator, prophet, elder, high priest, president, patriarch, merchant, banker, prisoner, wrestler, real estate speculator, prolific polygamist, lieutenant general, Master Mason, and mayor."

In the latest issue of the CRB, Casey Chalk reviews George Mason University historian John G. Turner's dispassionate biography of the controversial prophet.

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“When a house is collapsing, it's a great advantage to be on the outside.”In the Summer 2024 Issue of the CRB, ‘First Th...
05/29/2026

“When a house is collapsing, it's a great advantage to be on the outside.”

In the Summer 2024 Issue of the CRB, ‘First Things Magazine‘ editor R.R. Reno reviews Aaron Renn's “Life in the Negative World,” a field guide for Christians learning to live in a culture that has turned against them. Reno traces America's long de-Christianization, from the church-filled 1950s to a present in which dissent from progressive orthodoxy is treated as heresy.

Renn's counsel is practical. Intellectual excellence, ownership, and institutional integrity are the foundations of resilience in a hostile age.

Reno's own verdict is more hopeful still. As trust in the governing institutions collapses, the church's outsider status may prove its greatest strength.

It's a hard time to be a pastor. It is also a good one.

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"Whatever good things we may say about responsibility, we also should recognize what is dull and ponderous about it. Who...
05/28/2026

"Whatever good things we may say about responsibility, we also should recognize what is dull and ponderous about it. Who wants to spend the weekend with someone famous for his responsibility?"

From the CRB archive, Carnes Lord reviews Mark Blitz's "Duty Bound," a study of the one virtue liberal democracy cannot do without and the one our political class most conspicuously lacks. Blitz argues that responsibility is the distinctly modern virtue, born with the American founding and inseparable from self-government among equals. Lord pushes the analysis further, asking whether the institutional structure of American constitutionalism can sustain responsibility without help from the older moral traditions it has spent decades discarding.

Today, the question reads as a diagnosis. Read here https://hubs.li/Q04hMFBJ0

"The Bush team sought a 'peace process' in which the defenders do not destroy their attackers but instead grant them pow...
05/27/2026

"The Bush team sought a 'peace process' in which the defenders do not destroy their attackers but instead grant them powers, in exchange for the attackers' promise to negotiate. Alas, the attackers then sell that promise again and again, at ever higher prices."

From the CRB archive, Angelo M. Codevilla on why the logic of peace processes always works against the side that wants peace.

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"Stranger Things reacquaints us with a childhood that everyone took for granted, until it was gone. That world of consta...
05/26/2026

"Stranger Things reacquaints us with a childhood that everyone took for granted, until it was gone. That world of constant boredom, limited screen time, and default in-person social organization forced us to be curious and inventive."

Lane Smith Scott argues in the latest CRB that what makes Stranger Things resonate isn't the nostalgia but the analog childhood it portrays, unsupervised and unglamorous, in which kids built real skills, formed real loyalties, and practiced the self-government that prepared them for adult life.

The show's central code, friends don't lie, turns out to be a serious claim about what holds a community together and equips ordinary people to confront genuine evil.

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“Anecdotal accounts suggest that loved ones of the fallen, encountering not only their names but their own reflected sel...
05/25/2026

“Anecdotal accounts suggest that loved ones of the fallen, encountering not only their names but their own reflected selves in the granite, sometimes imagine the dead in animate form on the other side of the wall.”

In the Spring 2018 issue of the CRB, Catesby Leightell tells the story of how the Vietnam Veterans Memorial got built. Tracing the bitter design competition, the political battle over Maya Lin's chevron, and the compromise that placed Frederick Hart's Three Servicemen within its precinct. Catesby shows how the wall succeeded almost despite itself, and what the older monumental tradition once asked of a nation in mourning.

More than 58,000 names are inscribed in the black granite. This Memorial Day, they remain the heart of the wall.

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"By the late 1700s, as revolutionary fervor took hold, drinking the wine was a kind of patriotic duty, a way to avoid pa...
05/25/2026

"By the late 1700s, as revolutionary fervor took hold, drinking the wine was a kind of patriotic duty, a way to avoid paying taxes to the British Crown."

Sam Schneider of Encounter Books traces how Madeira, the fortified Portuguese wine exempted from the Navigation Acts, became the political beverage of the American Revolution. When British officials seized John Hancock's sloop Liberty and its 25 casks in 1768, a mob of 3,000 Bostonians rioted. Continental Congress delegates drank Madeira through long afternoons of debate. Washington secured over a thousand bottles for his circle during the war. Schneider's essay shows how a single wine, carried in the hulls of ships and aged by tropical heat, ran through the social and political life of the founding from the first protests to the framing of the Constitution.

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"The images were frequently paired by the news media. But it was a forced symmetry, created by the media for its conveni...
05/23/2026

"The images were frequently paired by the news media. But it was a forced symmetry, created by the media for its convenience and because it was more soothing and less complicated to represent the situations as the same."

From the CRB archive, Joseph Tartakovsky reviews Stephanie Gutmann's account of how the war over Israel is fought in the press.

Gutmann reconstructs the Second Intifada's defining media moments, the shooting of Mohammed al-Dura and the Ramallah lynching, and shows how reporters flattened them into a single narrative of mutual suffering when the evidence pointed in opposite directions. Twenty years later, the playbook has not changed. The Palestinian regime still stages the soundstage, the wire services still rely on local fixers, and Western audiences still receive a packaged symmetry that the underlying facts do not support.

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05/22/2026

Federalists and Anti-Federalists fought bitterly over the Constitution.

Matthew Peterson shares what both sides agreed on: What Americans possessed was the virtue to govern themselves.

Our latest event was an examination of that virtue, and what happens when we lose it.

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