Lafayette Lee

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.

Aug 26, 2024 | conservativereview.com | Lafayette Lee

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.

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.

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.