America is not just an idea.

The Age of Entitlement is drawing to a close, and it begins with a death rattle of panic. In his latest for The American Mind, Andrew Beck takes inspiration from Claremont Institute Senior Fellow Christopher Caldwell’s The Age of Entitlement to examine how decades of easy money

“Made in America” is a luxury sticker now—and brands are starting to notice. I’m quoted in today’s The Wall Street Journal reporting by Patrick Coffee on the opportunities and challenges tariffs are surfacing for companies. 🧵 and 🔗 :

"Where Gatsby dreams of joining a social elite, Trump defunds it. Where Gatsby imitates Europe, Trump makes it pay. In a republic born of rebellion against monarchy, Trump might be America’s first king: elected to perform a restoration, and ruling on the strength of his image..."

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Remember this: "Newsom deployed police against people who wanted to walk on the beach or sit on a park bench during COVID"

Introducing the new Museion cohort, MMXXV: Luca H. Cacciatore and David Carlson. The Museion Fellowship cultivates entrepreneurship and excellence to rebuild the West's institutions. Congratulations to our Fellows—and welcome to the team.

Now live: my latest essay—and I think the most important. The responses to JD Vance's speech at Claremont, the giant Hindu idol in Texas, and the increasingly obvious signs of dysfunction in America reveal a fault line in our civic life: we are divided culturally—and the divide

An epic waste of millions upon millions of dollars on “experts” and consultants whose work was so bad and out-of-touch it will never see the light of day again.

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Christopher Bedford: "A lot of people who didn’t know Charlie felt like they did. And they see a mentor or a friend, a younger or older brother, a son, a father, a husband." dlvr.it/TN1gFs

Anyone else notice that when one of our heroes was assinated in cold blood if front of thousands of people including his wife and young kids that not a single store in America had to board up their windows? That tell us everything you need to know.

I can’t get this excellent post from Michael Knowles out of my head. It’s perhaps the most clarion call for what we must do now. If you have not yet grasped the stakes, read it and understand the moment we’re in. “Marketplaces require rules, confidence, and common media of

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This article exposes the hollowness of mainstream economics’ “Max U” abstraction—humans reduced to soulless utility maximizers. What I’ve long found sterile. It’s a sharp, heartfelt push to bring virtue back in: prudence in planning, justice in exchange, fortitude in risk,

This will evolve into Chinese citizens wearing VR headsets to perform your chores—while harvesting your data, photos, and more.

The old ruling class recruited the “many” without making their recruitment to the American project contingent upon them becoming the “one.” The new elites must not continue in their error.

“To hear the strongest case for reducing high-skill immigration, I turned to the Claremont Institute, speaking with Vice President Andrew Beck and Senior Fellow Jeremy Carl.” JC and I are in the latest City Journal. Online soon.

The digital world may be an illusion, but its disruptions to real progress are all too tangible.