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Who We Are
Americans didn’t always think of themselves as conservatives. ... “Conservative” was a label for the backward and authoritarian, the most hidebound elements of Old Europe (read more).
Texas vs. No Child Left Behind
The state where it all began turns against the Cult of Educational Testing
Netanyahu’s Choice: Center-Rightism or Racist Nationalism?
How the divestment campaign shaped Israel’s election—and Iran hysteria didn’t.
In Mali, the Domino Theory Is Real
Intervention in Libya destabilized its neighbor. What chain reaction will France’s latest war set off?
Obama’s Inaugural: No Dostoyevsky This Time
The president is figurehead of a lukewarm liberalism—not a fiery new ideology.
The Perils of Second-Term Overreach
A minimalist agenda of recovery and regained peace would be Obama’s greatest legacy.
Drone Doubts at the CIA
A report on the post-Petraeus CIA and jihadist “refugees” in Turkey.
Rand Paul’s Israel Strategy
The Kentucky senator attempts to satisfy evangelicals while remaining anti-interventionist—but can he do both?
A Natural—But Not a Second Amendment-Guaranteed—Right to Own a Gun?
Reviving Garry Wills’s quirky interpretation of the right to bear arms
‘COPS’ at 25
The popular reality series confronts an “uncertain and problematic” future
Evolution, Individualism, and the End of the Family
The philosophies of the 19th century—statist and individualist alike—set the scene for social decay.
What America Can Learn from Kutusov
From education to decentralization, the Russian who beat Napoleon teaches victory by retreat.
Neoconservatives: An Endangered Species
The problem with this unimaginative “vision stuff”
TAC CLASSICS
Radical Son
How incendiary was George W. Bush’s Second Inaugural?
Rod Dreher
Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been?
Rod Dreher
The Law Of Merited Impossibility
Rod Dreher
Of Cotton, Ceilings, And Puzzled Lesbians
Rod Dreher
Wendell Berry’s Grampa Simpson Moment