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Conservative thinking on work, flight, the heartland and coastal communities, and the institutions that hold a country together. Every claim cited. Every argument made in good faith.
For the hardworking men and women who keep this country running — and the communities that hold it together.
On the difference between a right and a claim on your neighbor.
New York's new mayor pledged to trade the "frigidity of rugged individualism" for the "warmth of collectivism." Here is what that warmth costs, who is made to pay it, and why the small word at the center of "American" was never the problem.
A note on subsidiarity, and why it matters before we argue about anything else.
Before we debate any specific issue, we should agree on a prior question: at what level should this problem be addressed? The answer isn't ideological. It's methodological.
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