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Christianity as Tribal Identity
The American Right seems to be settling on faith as its preferred tribal identity. JD Vance proclaimed Christianity as the heart of our national identity at AmFest last weekend. “The only thing that has truly served as an anchor of the United States of America is that…
Defending Tucker
Let him cook. In Part I of this article, I made a qualified defense of Tucker Carlson’s willingness to entertain so-called “conspiracy theories,” despite the very real possibility of this open-mindedness being used against him to paint him as a “kook” and thereby tarnish all other views that…
This is Why the Price of Silver is Skyrocketing
December means many things: A year coming to an end, a time for reflection, a time for looking ahead. A time for family and friends, and of course, a time for holiday belly-expansion. However, what many may have missed this December is that it was the month…
The Stolen Generation of Young White Men
A growing number of people are discussing Jacob Savage’s recent essay in Compact, “The Lost Generation,” not because it flatters its subjects, but because it names a reality that has lingered beneath elite professional life for more than a decade. The piece examines a cohort of millennial…
Thoughts and Observations of the Spectacle That is Turning Point USA
As most readers are doubtlessly well aware, the first day of the Turning Point Convention on December 18, 2025 was a notable event for the way that Erika Kirk and above all Ben Shapiro made spectacles of themselves. Vivek Ramaswamy also saw fit to tell Americans what their…
Wokeness Isn’t Dead
Nearly a year into Trump’s second term there is a noticeable shift in the range of opinions one can find expressed in mainstream journalism. The populist magazine Compact has been at the center of this churn, with two think-pieces going viral recently and taking a critical look, however indirectly, at…
Dinosaurs
In April 2024, an independent researcher named Agent131711 published a five-part investigation into the dinosaur narrative. The work encompasses the history of paleontological discoveries, the institutional players involved, the physical evidence presented to the public, and the financial structures that support the endeavor. What emerges is not simply…
Leftism Promotes Psychological Abuse
What started as a joke is no longer a laughing matter: Leftism is a mental illness whose sufferers include an inordinate number of narcissists and psychopaths. Anybody who has endured a leftist mob knows this to be true. In the name of “racial justice,” “climate…
Irony Alert: Google Suddenly Champions Free Speech as UK Crushes Online Expression
In a stunning reversal, Google has slammed the UK for threatening to stifle free speech through its aggressive online regulations. This from the company infamous for its own censorship crusades against conservative voices and inconvenient truths. If even Google is raising the alarm, you know the situation in…