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Peter Laffin

Peter Laffin

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Following the campus riots, we need a college exit exam

yesterday 6

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America must restore its military deterrence

15.04.2024 6

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The problem with Trump’s $60 Bible and Biden’s rosary

07.04.2024 20

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This is what conservative governance looks like

01.04.2024 10

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Elbridge Colby thinks the US military is dramatically unprepared to defend our interests in Asia

01.04.2024 20

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The problem isn’t just the Houthis. It’s Yemeni unity

24.03.2024 10

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The racial realignment is a humiliation for white liberals

24.03.2024 20

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Bill Maher accidentally stumbles into Jesus

20.03.2024 7

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Tim Scott’s endorsement of Trump over Haley ‘one of the easier decisions’ he’s ever made

24.02.2024 10

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The establishment has yet to receive its reckoning over COVID failures

29.01.2024 9

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The soul-numbing numbers of America’s decline

I had only a ballpark idea of the national debt before this week. Like most people, I knew it was in the tens of trillions, which meant that it was...

08.01.2024 30

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The soul-numbing numbers of America's decline

I had only a ballpark idea of the national debt before this week. Like most people, I knew it was in the tens of trillions, which meant that it was...

06.01.2024 30

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Teachers must embrace open-mindedness and doubt

In the fall of 2020, I taught a course at an independent high school in Boulder, Colorado , on persuasive essay writing. It won’t stun anyone...

04.01.2024 4

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The effort to restore sanity to America saw significant gains in 2023

Kaylee McGhee White, our editor for the Washington Examiner’s Restoring America project, recently described our section as the effort to “bring...

28.12.2023 9

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The enduring and subversive radicality of the God baby

A shocking claim at the heart of Christianity is that God, the creator and sustaining force of existence, took on human flesh in the person of Jesus...

25.12.2023 6

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What it means to be green trash

A column I wrote a few months back peeved one reader so much that she wrote me a 2,900-word response sent as a Word Document attachment,...

15.12.2023 10

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The ironic, market-driven death of DEI

Headlines that warn of impending doom for the diversity, equity, and inclusion industrial complex have accelerated in recent months, sparking fears...

07.12.2023 20

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The Indi Gregory saga underscores the perils of socialized medicine

Like the vast majority of people, including a growing number of Republicans from the party's populist wing, I am sympathetic to the idea of a...

30.11.2023 6

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Gratitude is more than a tool of self-help

As with every Thanksgiving, news consumers nationwide have braced themselves once more for a deluge of articles on the positive effects of expressing...

23.11.2023 10

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Osama bin Laden worship has to be the bottom, right?

It was easy to see coming, but that doesn’t make it any less disorienting or obscene. On TikTok this week, thousands of videos began to circulate...

18.11.2023 5

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Let RFK Jr. debate

The results of a recent New York Times / Siena poll that showed independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with unprecedented...

15.11.2023 6

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Hamas's attack has exposed cracks in the cultural progressive monolith

Since the mid-2010s, cultural progressivism has been the dominant moral force in American life. In what felt like a blink, a crude and ill-considered...

09.11.2023 10

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Latest Vatican sex scandal is yet another cross for US Catholics to bear

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, whose show Life is Worth Living made him an unlikely TV star of the 1950s, liked to tell his audience the following story...

01.11.2023 9

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Israel war: Biden’s foreign policy fails on its own terms

Three years ago, the Biden administration commenced its foreign policy agenda by assuring allies that America was "back” from its brief spell of...

25.10.2023 10

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The least grateful generation

Like many who watched the Hamas attacks unfold on television, the images of burnt-alive bodies and child corpses being piled into shabby truck beds...

19.10.2023 6

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Pope Francis’s comments on same-sex blessings baffle the faithful

Pope Francis’s recent statement on the blessing of same-sex unions sent shockwaves through the global Catholic Church and the world at large. In...

13.10.2023 5

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Tim Scott: The Biden administration bears responsibility for the Israel attack

The Hamas terrorist attacks unfolding in the south of Israel have shocked the conscience of the world and prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...

09.10.2023 30

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Free speech as an objectively positive force for good

The principle of objectivity has fallen out of favor with Americans in recent years, a development that coincides with a sharp decline in belief in...

06.10.2023 7

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The RNC should consider shutting down the primary debates

Did anybody catch the funeral that posed as a Republican primary debate on Wednesday night? It would have been difficult to stage a more joyless...

30.09.2023 4

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The startling frequency of campus revolts

In October 2018, Sarah Lawrence College professor Samuel Abrams penned an op-ed in the New York Times that detailed the growing ideological...

28.09.2023 7

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Limited reparations is good policy and better politics

Though it’s been debated for years, the idea of paying reparations to address the legacy of slavery has been gathering steam, especially in...

22.09.2023 1

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Canada’s mass grave hoax is another irreversible lie of the cultural Left

In May 2021, the Tk’emlups te Secwépemc people , an indigenous tribe in southern British Columbia, announced the discovery of a mass grave...

14.09.2023 1

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Anthony Fauci: America's least credible voice on all things COVID

I’ll never forget how much I liked Dr. Anthony Fauci when I first heard him speak — how given I was to trusting him. It was early March in 2020,...

07.09.2023 1

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