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1 week ago | 
tomklingenstein.com | Roger Kimball |Declan Leary
Editor's Note Revolutionary regimes secure power in large part by establishing control over the truth: first in the narrow confines of academia, then in a nation’s understanding of its own past, and finally over reality itself.
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1 month ago | 
tomklingenstein.com | Bruce Gilley |Declan Leary
Editor's Note President Trump’s efforts to restore constitutional order in a system long controlled by unelected experts mark the opening of a new phase in the cold civil war. But, as Bruce Gilley notes, attempts at reform will prove fruitless if they do not include the corrupt and ideological educational establishments that form the foot soldiers of the enemy regime.
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1 month ago | 
tomklingenstein.com | Daniel Horowitz |Declan Leary
Editor's Note For years, American politics have been defined by the advance of an enemy — variously labelled “wokeism,” “DEI,” “the civil rights regime,” “the deep state,” and more — and the occasional, usually ineffective pushback of Republicans. With the return of Donald Trump to the White House, that enemy seems for the first time in living memory to be genuinely in retreat. Daniel Horowitz observes that Republican leadership are failing, or refusing, to capitalize on Trump’s momentum.
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1 month ago | 
tomklingenstein.com | David Reaboi |Declan Leary
Editor's Note For years, American politics have been defined by the advance of an enemy — variously labelled “wokeism,” “DEI,” “the civil rights regime,” “the deep state,” and more — and the occasional, usually ineffective pushback of Republicans. With the return of Donald Trump to the White House, that enemy seems for the first time in living memory to be genuinely in retreat.
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1 month ago | 
tomklingenstein.com | Josh Hammer |Declan Leary
Editor's Note For years, American politics have been defined by the advance of an enemy — variously labelled “wokeism,” “DEI,” “the civil rights regime,” “the deep state,” and more — and the occasional, usually ineffective pushback of Republicans. With the return of Donald Trump to the White House, that enemy seems for the first time in living memory to be genuinely in retreat.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
tomklingenstein.com | Daniel Mahoney |Declan Leary
Editor's Note Free societies function by balancing the interests of competing groups. But when one group makes an absolute claim, over and against the rights of all others, that balance becomes impossible. If that absolute claim is pressed successfully, it amounts to totalitarianism; even if it is resisted, it means civil war. Daniel J. Mahoney explains how, under such circumstances, mere compromise is not enough. Compromise assumes friendship.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
tomklingenstein.com | Garrett Snedeker |Declan Leary
Editor's Note In a landmark decision in 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that American colleges could not select their student bodies based on racial quotas, whether explicit or implicit. Elite institutions fought this decision tooth and nail, insisting they could not achieve their desired diversity without consideration of race. But after the ruling in SFFA v. Harvard, many of these same schools’ class compositions have been unchanged.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
tomklingenstein.com | Peachy Keenan |Declan Leary
Editor's Note Building a coalitional force is one of the keys to winning a political war. Peachy Keenan, the author of Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War, suggests that Trump’s gains among important female demographics — driven directly by the destructive Left’s attacks on American families and their way of life — could point the way forward to victory. Last year, I published a book that diagnosed a major problem in society, and offered a solution.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
tomklingenstein.com | David Reaboi |Declan Leary
Editor's Note While the political crisis in America is best described as a “cold civil war,” the past decade has seen a number of hot flashes: outbursts of disorder and real physical danger clearly tied to the interests of the enemy regime. In previous crises and in other nations, such scattered but deliberate violence has been a precursor to far worse troubles.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
tomklingenstein.com | Poppy Coburn |Declan Leary
Editor's Note The ideology of our enemies has the potential not just to alter our way of life but to destroy it, and our nation with it. While much of the American crisis is unique, there are parallels in other imperiled democracies from which we might learn. The UK, argues British writer Poppy Coburn, provides a glimpse of what happens to a nation that erodes its own self-understanding while restricting the means by which citizens can make their objections heard.
