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The world is changing fast. What should Americans think about a rising, aggressive, authoritarian Chinese state? Is there a solution to an iconoclastic, aggressive Wokism – an ideology that seeks to overthrow everything and begin again with Year Zero?
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For 65 years, it’s been this way. Indeed, when the editors of National Review wrote, in 1955 at this magazine’s founding, that they stood against “an age of conformity” in which liberals “run just about everything,” they could have been speaking for you or me today.
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The mainstream culture thinks conservatives are stuffy, dry, and boring. But what could be more boring than a dreary adherence to the dominant progressive zeitgeist or to today’s doctrine of hysterical Wokism?
In our era, to be a conservative, to keep one’s head amidst the roiling seas of bad ideas – that’s downright radical.
“We offer, besides ourselves,” William F. Buckley and the NR editors wrote 65 years ago, “a position that has not grown old under the weight of a gigantic, parasitic bureaucracy, a position untempered by the doctoral dissertations of a generation of Ph.D’s in social architecture, unattenuated by a thousand vulgar promises to a thousand different pressure groups, uncorroded by a cynical contempt for human freedom.”
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