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It's wrong, and it's racist, and it's bigoted to say that guns are quintessentially American. Alan Dershowitz

Say Guns Wrong American Bigoted

Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern. Alan Dershowitz

Democracy Important Reflect Those Laws Attitudes Because Govern Precisely Aspirations

Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king. Alan Dershowitz

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Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted. Albert Pike

Faith Exhausted Begins Where Reason

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. Albert Pike

War Result Victory Which Series

The real reason President Trump was elected, I think, to the extent I know anything about politics at all - and I know very, very little - is that a lot of people really were relieved to see someone stand up to the thought police of the progressive left wing. Amy Wax

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Sociology is really in trouble as a field. I can tell you, because I've known young people who have wanted to go into it, and they have been uniformly advised, if you are a free thinker, stay away from sociology. Amy Wax

Women, on average, are less knowledgeable than men. They're less intellectual than men. Amy Wax

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Are there a lot of Jews in Hollywood? Yeah, there are. Amy Wax

Jews Yeah Lot Hollywood

Embracing cultural distance, cultural distance nationalism, means in effect taking the position that our country will be better off with more whites than non-whites. Amy Wax

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I believe the conservatives need to push back against the ungrateful habit of blaming the West by pointing repeatedly to the self-inflicted wounds of the Third World. Amy Wax

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I do sort of question the notion that conservatives should try and turn America into a place where people can come from traditional societies and continue to be fully traditional in every sense. Amy Wax

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My position here is that conservatives need a realistic approach to immigration that best serves and preserves our country's status and identity as a relatively high-functioning, at least for now, Western and First World nation. That status will not automatically maintain itself. It is fragile. It is precarious and vulnerable to erosion. Amy Wax

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Although it was common in our culture to complain a lot - about friends, relatives, business partners, bad luck, and the general cluelessness of non-Jews - we were not permitted to complain that anti-Semitism and discrimination were standing in our way. Amy Wax

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Jews have been harmed by the threats to freedom of opinion and debate, the punishments for candor, and the decline in rigorous standards in the academy that have accompanied progressive hegemony, which insists upon the sacrosanct status of affirmative action and other policies favored by the left. Amy Wax

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Bourgeois values aren't just for white people. The irony is: Bourgeois values can help minorities get ahead. Amy Wax

People Values White Minorities Bourgeois Get Irony Just Help

Blacks as a group will never be equal while they have this situation going on, where the vast majority of children do not have fathers in the home married to their mother, involved in their lives, investing in them, investing in the next generation. Amy Wax

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The 21st century for the black community is about building human capital. That is the undone business. That is the unmet need. That is the completion of the civil rights mission. Amy Wax

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The black community has fallen into this horribly dysfunctional equilibrium. Amy Wax

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Take corruption, right? Take political corruption. Europe, the Anglosphere, northern Europe, has been kind of a miracle zone - and I'm not saying there's no corruption, of course - but in being somehow able to minimize political corruption. Amy Wax

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We get divided generationally and in other ways - libertarians versus more traditional social conservatives, for example - and we've got to provide some flexibility there. But we don't need to have quite so many litmus tests. We need to have our big picture focused on economic issues. Asa Hutchinson

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You can expect interior enforcement actions in the future. Asa Hutchinson

Future You Interior Expect Enforcement Actions

To suggest that immigration is the exclusive domain of the federal government, disallowing partnerships with local law enforcement, defies the will of Congress, not to mention reality. Numerous local jurisdictions have laws on the books dealing with immigration in a variety of ways. Asa Hutchinson

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