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Is Ron Paul Really Dropping Out?

Racking up delegates may be just the beginning of his strategy to claim the GOP.

Lost in Time

Bureaucrats, not Daleks, are the deadliest foes of “Doctor Who.”

Back to Burke

On the occasion of our revamped website’s debut, we re-present the editorial that …

The Foreign Policy of Know-Nothingism

From Russia to the Mideast to the Korean Peninsula, the ex-governor is out of touch with geostratetic reality.

Ich und Du in Iraq

Donald Margulies’s “Time Stands Still” can’t tell us how to respond to faraway horrors.

Crunchy Congressman

Rep. Jeff Fortenberry defied Grover Norquist—here’s why.

Against the American Jesus

Ross Douthat shows that the greatest threat to Christianity isn’t secularism.

The Repository

What is The Repository?
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What Are the Purposes
of a Foreign Policy?

There are only two: to protect our liberty and to secure peace. Wars of choice undermine both.

TAC CLASSICS

American Burke

Irving Babbitt formulated conservatism for a world in whirl.