Tom Klingenstein
@TomKlingenstein
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Playwright. Writer. Speaker. Philanthropist.
Joined November 2021
Pearl Harbor and the Art of Peace
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Next to the people themselves, the land they live on is the most fundamental and necessary material condition of political life.
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In America today, politics are defined not just by disagreements over this or that policy but by two completely different visions for society & two different sets of beliefs about its foundations. Nowhere is this clearer than in the fight over birthright citizenship. Flashback:
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Six years after the NYT launched its assault on American history, where do things stand today?
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My latest piece on donor privacy and the war on conservative philanthropists, published by the great @TomKlingenstein
As financial power tilts leftward and dissent meets the soft instruments of totalitarianism, conservative schools, charities, and civic organizations face an existential question: Can their supporters give without fear? @therightfrankd examines the stakes.
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“ that fundamentally means returning education to forming wise, virtuous, and highly capable future citizens. It means focusing on academics and character. It means casting a vision, a return to what school was meant to be.”
Classical education is the discipline of a free people. If we neglect it, the republic will not survive us.
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As financial power tilts leftward and dissent meets the soft instruments of totalitarianism, conservative schools, charities, and civic organizations face an existential question: Can their supporters give without fear? @therightfrankd examines the stakes.
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Ideas alone don't win elections, nor do they win political or cultural fights. To sustain the movement at large, the GOP needs money.
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American self-government depends on the freedom to associate, to build institutions, and to support them without fear of reprisal. That freedom is now strained in ways that would have been unthinkable a generation ago…
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Classical education is the discipline of a free people. If we neglect it, the republic will not survive us.
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Classical education is the discipline of a free people. If we neglect it, the republic will not survive us.
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The "melting pot" is an insultingly reductive analogy that ignores what the Founders knew: our experiment is fragile.
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The "melting pot" is an insultingly reductive analogy that ignores what the Founders knew: our experiment is fragile.
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Jonathan Richie explores the consequences of accelerating immigration without the cultural fusion and shared ground that once sustained the American experiment. https://t.co/7P53qdawR6
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The "melting pot" is an insultingly reductive analogy that ignores what the Founders knew: our experiment is fragile.
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American unity has always depended on more than territory or statute; it endures through shared habits, memory, and the moral agreement to live under the same rules. A nation can absorb difference, but it cannot survive if its people no longer recognize a common civic culture.
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Classical education does not simply transmit knowledge; it transmits civilization. If we wish for self-government to endure, we must recover the sources that made it possible.
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Classical education is the discipline of a free people. If we neglect it, the republic will not survive us.
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Are we still worthy of the blessings of liberty for which we give thanks? A reflection on what Thanksgiving means, 250 years into the American experiment.
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How wonderfully American to have a congressional debate about whether or not to say thank you on Thanksgiving.
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This Thanksgiving, imagine the country without Trump. Then measure the distance between that world and this one.
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The Civil War was a test of whether the principles of 1776 could survive. As we approach America’s 250th anniversary, Lincoln’s words demand our attention once more.
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This piece from @KeenanPeachy calls the Right back to focus, discipline, and the work required to govern a nation worth saving.
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The America First movement's drift and new donor-class signaling are sabotaging the only path to our national recovery.
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The New York election is not an isolated event but another front in the country’s ongoing cold civil war. As the regime consolidates cultural and political power, the movement that claims to resist it shows signs of distraction…
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If conservatives are to strike back against the destructive Left, they must be every bit as organized and intentional as their enemies.
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If conservatives are to strike back against the destructive Left, they must be every bit as organized and intentional as their enemies.
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His story is not merely a chapter of military legend, but a lesson in courage/loyalty, & leadership that every citizen still inherits. As Chris Flannery reminds us here, the moral fiber of a republic endures only because good men are willing to defend it.
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On Veterans Day, we remember the Marine who embodied courage, loyalty, and the spirit of never quitting: Lewis “Chesty” Puller.
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In a time when civic duty too often feels abstract, Veterans Day reminds us of the real price of freedom — and the men who paid it. Lewis “Chesty” Puller, the most decorated Marine in American history, personified that spirit of service...
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