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What remains of traditional conservatism? Should we concede defeat and see the great conservative figures of the past as women and men of beauty who had their say but who are now relegated to some obscure museum of lost humanist causes? No! To my mind, these voices have never been more needed and more relevant

EAST LANSING, Mich. — UPDATE: The board of Trustees made the decision official Friday morning. The decision was made during the MSU Board of Trustees meeting on Sept. 11. (WSYM) - Michigan State University will rename the Nisbet building after a Ku Klux Klan connection was discovered. The university building located at 1407 S. Harrison Road was named after Stephen S. Nisbet, a former education administrator and former member of Michigan State University’s Board of Trustees. The building was named for Nisbet in February of 1974. However, it has recently come to light that Nisbet was a member of the...

“War and the military are, without question, among the very worst of the earth’s afflictions,” an American conservative of distinction once wrote, “responsible for the majority of the torments, oppressions, tyrannies, and suffocations of thought the West has for long been exposed to. In military or war society anything resembling true freedom of thought, true individual initiative in the intellectual and cultural and economic areas, is made impossible—not only cut off when they threaten to appear but, worse, extinguished more or less at root. Between military and civil values there is, and always has been, relentless opposition. Nothing has proved...

LONDON — The green-gold expanse of savanna; above it, the purple horizon-hiding haze; and above that, like a pyramid improbably suspended in the sky, the snows of Kilimanjaro. "Great, high and unbelievably white in the sun," as Hemingway wrote, the continent of Africa — some would say our planet itself — has hardly anything to show more fair. But the show could soon be over. The summit of Kilimanjaro is losing its ice so quickly that it could be barren dirt before the next decade is out. When the ice goes, it will take with it an irreplaceable 10-millennium record...