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"For all of President Trump’s flaws, what was hard even for his detractors to deny is that he came across not like a politician but like a real person saying things he actually believed, things that, to many of us, simply made sense." - Alexander merionwest.com/2024/12/28/our…

“Eve about to be cast out of the Garden kills as the mistress of straight-faced understatement. There is no fury, no rebuke, or if there is, it has not set in yet. Instead, we get rationalizing, looking on the bright side, and philosophical self-doubt.” merionwest.com/2025/01/05/god…

“It should be noted, however, that President Carter was not only the Great Humanitarian. He was also the Great Deregulator.” merionwest.com/2025/01/05/jim…

"Recently, however, James Lindsay, anti-Communist has sparked a contentious debate on this topic by disparaging postliberals as ‘woke right.’ We will examine [Alasdair] MacIntyre in the context of this vibrant debate." - Daniel Addison merionwest.com/2025/01/16/wha…

“If a stranger comes around, if he’s wise, he will keep to the road and announce his business soon, clearly and loudly, then you’ll see what’s what. You’re not against him, but you’re not automatically for him.” - Johnny Payne merionwest.com/2025/01/22/sti…

“Five years later, Orwell published an essay called ‘Looking Back on the Spanish War,’ in which he states, ‘War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil.'” merionwest.com/2025/01/31/und…

“...Harris’s phrase could be described as the animating principle behind the whole modern project, as well as much of what we think of as progress: The more we unburden ourselves from nature and history, the more human ideas can determine what can be.” merionwest.com/2025/01/28/__l…

“Yet what might in lesser hands become mere effusions is tempered with a wise, sometimes steely, sometimes self-abnegating, sometimes mournful contemplative voice that speaks of philosophical and personal concerns combined…” - Johnny Payne merionwest.com/2025/02/02/the…

From our arts section: "How could we have known/what awaited us in the darkness/of future years, too young to even/imagine a future, let alone our own?" merionwest.com/2025/02/28/nig…

"I first read Herman Melville’s Moby Dick while working in counterterrorism for the British government." merionwest.com/2025/02/26/wha…

“I was born in the 1990s, into one of the countless middle-class Indian families that were sprouting like saplings after the rains, in the wake of the 1991 economic reforms." merionwest.com/2025/03/17/the…

“And so things continue as before, because in a post-historical era, sprinkled with German-Hegelian state worship and a view of oneself as the summit of civilizational development, there is no need to move from the spot one has occupied."-Benedict Beckeld merionwest.com/2025/03/23/ger…

“No, not everyone on the Left supported these tyrannies, yet what progressives cannot escape is that much of the Left lent political legitimacy to regimes that destroyed and damaged tens of millions of lives...” - Prof. Eric Heinze, author and academic merionwest.com/2025/03/21/wha…

“What our country needs is a long-term, multi-pronged rediscovery of the true Constitution and a commitment to live by it. The thought of Orestes Brownson can help us in this rediscovery.” merionwest.com/2025/03/25/why…

“Nevertheless, I am often struck by how many great thinkers have also been great walkers.” merionwest.com/2025/03/27/wal…

It was a pleasure interviewing Sen. James Lankford today about his new book "Turnaround." Transcript forthcoming at @MerionWest

"Like Aris Roussinos, Matt Goodwin does not foresee 'ethnic' Britons being 'eaten, devoured, absorbed' by incoming refugees and immigrants or those who have already settled in Britain." merionwest.com/2025/04/02/mak…

When Journal of Controversial Ideas first came out, it was critiqued by philosophers Clay Routledge and Bradley Campbell for being “a capitulation to the academic culture that motivated scholars to feel the need to establish such a journal.” - Peter Clarke merionwest.com/2025/04/22/has…

"So many heated debates about policy or ideas, when one scratches below the surface, are clearly more of personal bouts." - Erich J. Prince merionwest.com/2024/11/16/the…

"In October of 2024, conservative pundit Ben Shapiro offered an interesting observation about the American presidential election of 2000. ... 'Can we just point out what an innocent country this was?'" merionwest.com/2025/04/28/und…