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As Jon Elster rightfully notes, the United States was born in rebellion by a rag-tag bunch of 'colonials' against their mother country.

Torching your own reputation is usually a onetime engagement. Credibility is finite, and once it’s gone, there is not much left to burn. A reporter who got their sources mixed up once will surprise no one next time they bungle a story; a writer who spreads conspiracy theories is soon known as a crank.Those rules have somehow not held true for the writer Naomi Wolf. A notable feature of her career has been her ability to repeat the act of self-immolation over and over, singeing others alon...

Chris Rufo wants the Right to build a Trojan horse

The vibe was very West Coast: everyone looked like someone I’d played in a Seattle band with a decade ago. Cowboy boots and fleece, a lot of craft beer and sleeve tattoos, #vanlifers with fedoras and rainbow Pendleton blankets, earth-toned knitwear and dusty Chacos (the “pretty” kind with the toe loop), big Indigo Girls energy. I’ve been in New York too long; I don’t own clothes like this anymore.

Fifth Estate Magazine, radical publishing since 1965

In the past two decades, a new, more radical form of progressivism has taken over American social and political life, even finding its way into the White House. Fresh instances of this new progressivism appear every day. For example:

Both ends of the political spectrum are accusing pro-market, anti-ESG critics of subverting free-market principles.

The great and perverse irony is that the same people who said, ‘Follow the science’ came up with the term ‘The unvaccinated.’

This article will be released in full online June 5, 2023. In popular thought, the youth and student movements of France May 1968 have been linked with the…

Former Florida Governor and sitting U.S. Sen. Rick Scott said socialists aren’t welcome in Florida. That didn’t go over well.