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Modern Conservatism: The Philosophical Warrior-Scholar — Wisdom, Analysis, and the Modernity of Leadership Reflecting Ancient Truths
By Judd Dunning Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Conservatism at its highest form has never been a matter of nostalgia. It is philosophy in motion—reason disciplined by gratitude, freedom guarded by order, and faith translated into civic strength. The conservative is not a man clutching the past; he is the custodian of the permanent things, […]
Western Culture Isn’t Feminized, It’s Transgender
By Joy Pullmann Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Editor’s note: This is an excellent essay, and the point about “social transgenderism” especially so. But arguing that our society cannot be over-feminized because it does not have feminine characteristics is insufficient; it forgets that femininity, like masculinity, may be pathologized. Frankly, women do not act “like […]
The Democrat Party: We Will Not Serve
By Conlan Salgado Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Editors’ Note: In the future, articles such as this very informative and superbly written piece will be published as Premium Content. We recommend subscribing to Premium Content membership for continued access to unique and very current commentary by our writers and their columns. For $4.99 a month, […]
Feature Video: “Gad Saad On “Freedom of Religion”
By Neland Nobel Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Editors’ Note: One of our most cherished concepts in the West is freedom of religious practice. As Professor Saad points out in this critical video, a misunderstanding of this concept is paralyzing the West as it attempts to deal with a vigorous and ascendant Islam. Yes, in […]
Children in Charge? The EU Is Pushing Self-Identification for Kids
By Lauren Smith Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Editors’ Note: If any American thinks the crazies are running wild here, they will not find much comfort from what is going on in Europe. They are running wild there as well, for many of the same reasons. Our universities and intellectuals have betrayed us. There is […]
The Rainbow People Are Not Going To Leave Your Kids Alone
By Nathanael Blake Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Hurting Netflix for promoting perversion is not enough to heal our culture. Those who see the evil of what Netflix is doing need to go beyond criticism and boycotts. The rainbow people won’t leave the kids alone. We were told that the LGBT movement was about adults […]
Gorsuch, Barrett Blast Colorado’s Double Standard On Talk Therapy For Kids With Gender Dysphoria
By Shawn Fleetwood Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Under Colorado’s argument, a state could “forbid a regulated licensed professional from affirming homosexuality if that were consistent with the then-prevailing ‘standard of care.’” The Democrat-led state of Colorado seemingly attempted to dodge addressing a key point raised in a pivotal free speech case before the U.S. […]
Featured Video: The First Post Accident Interview With Dennis Prager
By Neland Nobel October 11, 2025/by Neland Nobel Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Editors’ Note: Dennis Prager is one of the most influential Conservative Thinkers. He began his career on the radio in 1982 and subsequently produced multiple books, as well as hundreds of tapes and CDs of lectures, which were distributed nationwide. He […]
The Nonsense Of Transgenderism Gets A Legal Hearing
By Neland Nobel Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes There was a Supreme Court hearing yesterday about whether conversion therapy would be permitted in Colorado. Currently, the state legally forbids practitioners from using talk therapy for gender dysphoria cases. Over 20 states have similar bans, and the decision could have a ripple effect nationally. It appears […]
Bibbity, Bobbity, Democracy!
By Conlan Salgado
The Lost Vocation of Medicine: From Calling to Commodity
By Joseph Varon Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes When I was a young medical student, I believed with all my heart that medicine was the highest calling a human being could answer. We were not just training to earn a degree or secure a position. We were stepping into a lineage, inheriting a tradition that […]
Oct. 7, 2023: A Day of Anti-Jewish Genocide
By Catherine Salgado Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Today is Oct. 7, the day the second Holocaust began. In 2023 on this date, genocidal Hamas terrorists raped women to death, gunned down or kidnapped entire families, beheaded and burned alive babies, and committed unimaginable atrocities which they themselves filmed and over which they gloated. In […]
The Conservative Chorus: Schumer Siesta and Big Mommy Government
By The Editors
The Fruits of Devaluing Human Life
By Anne Marie DiCarlo Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes On August 22, Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, 23, was stabbed by DeCarlos Brown Jr., 34, a career criminal, as she commuted to work at a local pizza place on the light rail system in Charlotte, NC. Iryna came to the United States to escape the horrors […]
We Are Past the Point of Normal Solutions
By Conlan Salgado
Why Our Systems Collapse
By Victor Davis Hanson Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes When merit is replaced with ideology, fires rage unchecked, killers walk free, and fragile systems collapse—leaving lives and cities in ruin. America has a lot of built-in safety backups and redundancies. But every once in a while, when tradition, science, time-tested protocols, and common sense are […]
The Terrible Smallness of Public Killers
By Rachel Lu Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes Editors’ Note: Although the author has written an accurate description of those committing political violence, there is little discussion of several major transformations in our society over the decades. America and the West have become increasingly secular with a breakdown in faith-based family life. Many of our […]
MIKE BENGERT: What Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Says About The State Of Our Schools And Culture
By Mike Bengert Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes A young Christian man named Charlie Kirk was shot—simply for speaking his mind. A husband, a father, a voice for the next generation. Lord, why did it happen this way? How dare they steal the breath from a faithful man? Charlie was not a violent agitator, not […]
For Charlie
By Conlan Salgado The Prickly Pear supports Patriot Mobile Cellular and its Four Pillars of Conservative Values: the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Right to Life, and significant support for our Veterans and First Responders. When you switch to Patriot Mobile, not only do you support these causes, but most customers will also save up to 50% on their monthly cellular […]
The Conservative Chorus: Erika Kirk, Martyr for Charity
By The Editors Friends, Jesus calls us to love our enemies. Today, I was struck by Erika Kirk’s granting of forgiveness to the man who killed her husband—a breathtaking moment of the Gospel on full display. pic.twitter.com/EoPoqf8zI0 — Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) September 22, 2025
Turning Point USA Chapter Requests Explode Following Charlie Kirk’s Assassination
By AZ Free News Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Requests to establish Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapters exploded in the days following the assassination of its CEO and founder, Charlie Kirk. Kirk, a devout, professed Christian and Phoenix native, was a month shy of turning 32 years old at the time of his death. Kirk […]
Can We Finally Admit The T In LGBT Stands For Terrorism?
By Hayden Daniel Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes The perpetrators of these heinous tragedies and those who cheer them on couldn’t be any clearer as to what their motivation is or who their targets are. The assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the “transgender” movement is, in […]
How the Left Programmed Young People to Hate
By David Betz and Michael Rainsborough Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes In the spring of 1975, the Red Army Faction, more popularly known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, stormed the West German Embassy in Stockholm and murdered two of its staff before setting the building ablaze. In its aftermath, a British tabloid printed a headline whose […]
The American Vocation
By Conlan Salgado
What Killed Charlie Kirk
By Liel Leibovitz Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes And, more importantly, can we stop it? What can you say in the aftermath of a national tragedy like Charlie Kirk’s assassination? In the 24 hours or so [now five days] since Kirk was gunned down in Utah by a shooter who, as of this writing, is […]
No Birthday Cake For Margaret Sanger
By Ken Braun Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Editors’ Note: We wonder how many “feminists” really know the background of one of their heroes. There is even an Arizona connection. Sanger moved to Tucson in 1934 and remained a resident for decades. During this time, she helped found clinics that would later evolve into Planned […]
The Conservative Chorus: Charlie, American Original
By Conlan Salgado Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes I don’t know if anyone fought as hard as you did day after day, campus after campus, schooling and winning over the younger generations for Trump. I watched all your streams and learned so much from you. Thank you, Charlie. 👏🏻🙌🏻♥️ pic.twitter.com/nJcvPrFXTa — ♥️ Joy Reborn ♥️ […]
Tucson Is the Canary in the Homeless Shelter
By Craig J. Cantoni Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes The reasons why the homeless in Tucson and other cities are living and dying on the street like animals A recent news story by KVOA in Tucson was another daily reminder of personal and societal costs of homelessness and the nation’s embarrassing inability to remedy it. The […]
Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Should Herald The End Of The American Left
By John Daniel Davidson Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes The left has always been a violent, revolutionary movement, incompatible with ordered liberty. Politics isn’t possible with the left. Back in April, Charlie Kirk posted on X about how assassination culture is spreading on the left. He cited a recent survey that found 48 percent of liberals […]
Charlie Kirk, Martyr
By Joshua Treviño Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes “For they killed him in his kindness.” This is who they chose to kill: the affable man whose main act was having good-faith political debates with college students. The man who, since fatherhood, was turning more toward Christianity as both a purpose and a theme. He was […]