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2 months ago | 
im1776.com | Lafayette Lee |Paul Brian |Catherine Sulpizio
“It ain’t like it used to be… but it’ll do.”— Sam Peckinpah, The Wild BunchFor all its wealth and high-minded principles, America owes everything to desperate men willing to kill and die for a little freedom and maybe a patch of dirt to call their own. As a man of the West, Sam Peckinpah, legendary director and screenwriter of The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs, and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, knew it better than anyone.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
im1776.com | Lafayette Lee |George M. Marsden |Christopher Rufo |Pedro Gonzalez |Pedro González
“We Germans write fat volumes about Realpolitik but understand it no better than babies at a nursery. But you Americans understand it far too well to talk about it.” — A Berlin professor to Walter WeylAt a news conference at Mar-a-Lago last week, President Donald Trump raised eyebrows around the world when he refused to rule out the use of force to seize control of Greenland and the Panama Canal.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
conservativereview.com | Lafayette Lee
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
theblaze.com | Lafayette Lee
In his 2023 book “End Times,” Peter Turchin argued that America’s social pyramid has become top-heavy, with too many elites and “elite aspirants” competing for too few positions in the upper reaches of business and politics. As the equilibrium between elites and the majority leans too far in favor of elites, serious political instability becomes inevitable. Elite aspirants always outnumber elites, but the number of aspirants in America today is at an all-time high.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
im1776.com | Lafayette Lee |Michael Anton |Daniel Miller |Adam Ellwanger
Michael Anton: This is a hard question for me to answer (though not to write about at numbing length). I was so to speak “raised in the faith” — that is, the Claremont faith, or now the Claremont-Hillsdale faith. I mention that because Rufo’s argument, as presented — and I do not find your summary of the original debate inaccurate — sounds very “Claremontian.” Indeed, Rufo was a Lincoln Fellow of the Claremont Institute in 2017 and remains on friendly terms with us.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
lafayettelee.com | Lafayette Lee
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”—Robert FrostIn my early years I led a gypsy’s life, dragged hither and yon by two hungry parents who just couldn’t live on the rations of small-town life. I remember each bareboned apartment, every summertime sweetheart, and all the baseball teams I could never really call my own. I was always just passing through—a squatter with no true right to anything. But I knew I had a place somewhere.
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May 30, 2024 | 
americanmind.org | Lafayette Lee
features 5 minutes Noticing reality is the first step toward national renewal.
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May 28, 2024 | 
americanmind.org | Lafayette Lee
Race, more than anything else, has come to define American politics. Sixty years after the Civil Rights Act, it permeates virtually all political and cultural discourse. The decades-long campaign to position race at the center of American life has succeeded, and to avoid the subject is to embrace irrelevance. Most accounts of this transformation are celebratory, as scholars and cultural tastemakers are intimately aware of the advantages of affirming the present.
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May 7, 2024 | 
im1776.com | Mark Granza |Techno Fog |Lafayette Lee
In recent weeks, a number of US college campuses have been turned into protest encampments in the name of the Palestinian cause. Activists have occupied buildings and pitched legions of identical tents in campus quads.
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Mar 17, 2024 | 
ruins.substack.com | Lafayette Lee
“Pain is the ultimate teacher, but without love it warps us. Some spend their whole lives searching for lost innocence, only to wither—empty and alone. If they only knew it was always there in the raising and the rearing; in their own flesh and blood… cold, hard experience, refined by love.”Pain is no good bootless. My great-great grandfather was killed at the age of 31 after falling from a hay wagon, the iron tire snapping him like a splitting maul.
