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Nov 26, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Simon Heffer |Patrick Collins |David Goldman |Lane Scott
Fighting DiscriminationI thank Helen Andrews for her rich review of books by Jeremy Carl and myself on the culture war (“Beyond the Pale,” Summer 2024). While she makes many good points, her framing of me as a liberal as against Carl the conservative is not accurate. In fact, as Carl’s numerous references in his book to my work suggests, we are both national conservatives who endorse the classical liberal procedures of the Constitution while eschewing left-liberalism in the culture.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
theblaze.com | Lane Scott
Guys, I’m not sure Kamala Harris is going to make it. Don’t get me wrong — I think she can win. Well, no. She can’t win. But the Democrats can. I firmly believe that if Democrats unite, supported by their captured institutions like the media, academia, Wall Street, the health care industry, local and state governments, and schools, and launch a full-court press like they did in 2020, they can carry Harris over the finish line, regardless of history. But will they?
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
conservativereview.com | Lane Scott
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
theblaze.com | Lane Scott
At the end of my eighth-grade basketball season, the team parents got together to make big bouquets of flowers in purple and gold — the colors of the high school we would be attending next season. The big-time high school coaches were in attendance, having watched us come up through the ranks of the local feeder teams.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
conservativereview.com | Lane Scott
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May 24, 2024 | 
fairerdisputations.org | Lane Scott
Harrison Butker’s controversial commencement speech has alerted the nation to an important political phenomenon: some young American men are espousing both radical rightwing politics and a distinct version of Catholicism to go along with it. Where does this movement come from, and why is it happening now? One must take an honest look at the political and cultural reality that produced the class of 2024 to begin to understand.
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May 16, 2024 | 
chroniclesmagazine.org | Lane Scott
The right has an iffy relationship with art. On the whole, we have a great respect for art widely understood to be good, particularly antiquities which represent the kind of society we wish to promote. We are sensitive to the loss of decent architecture, decent city and urban design, and we mourn the loss of artists willing to depict goodness and beauty in modern life.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
americanmind.org | Lane Scott
If only ideologies worked. It’s easy to see why they tempt us: they promise to absolve us from having to think about complex practical decisions. They hold out the hope of black and white absolutes. We reach for theory when we sense our prudence coming up short. But it’s best not to be an ideologue if you can help it. Falling for ideology means inviting dogmatists and snake oil salesmen to make your decisions for you. This is never more true than when it comes to education.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
conservativereview.com | Lane Scott
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
theblaze.com | Lane Scott
How do I find friends? Where can I go to live in a decent community? After the pandemic exposed the extent to which our social and cultural institutions have broken down, these questions are universal. The standard advice is to take up various hobbies in order to meet people and to bloom where we’re planted. That’s fine as far as it goes, but these sorts of friendships are often fairly limited — dependent upon the original shared interest, for one thing.
