James Piereson is a Senior Fellow at The Manhattan Institute and author (most recently) of Shattered Consensus (Encounter).
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Features October 2022
The Voting Rights Act after six decades
On the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the VRA.
Features May 2022
Culture against civilization
On reasons to be pessimistic and optimistic about the future of Western civilization.
Features January 2022
The way forward
On internal debates among conservatives.
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Mar 17, 2023
Back to the 1970s
On the Fed’s recent monetary policy.
Mar 07, 2023
Correcting the course
On Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story by Timothy S. Goeglein.
Feb 17, 2023
The FBI missteps—again
On the agency’s targeting of “traditionalist” Catholics.
January 24, 2021
Sovereignty or submission: a symposium
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The New Criterion hosted “Sovereignty or Submission,” a conference in Washington, D.C., in fall 2019.
Roger Kimball introduces “Sovereignty or Sumbission”
Tucker Carlson’s Keynote Address at “Sovereignty or Submission”
James Piereson on the American Nation
John Fonte on Sovereignty and its Enemies
Michael Anton on the “Liberal International Order”
Angelo M. Codevilla on Collective and Individual Liberty
John O’Sullivan on the National Consensus
Victor Davis Hanson on Citizenship
January 09, 2020
James Piereson on the idea of an American nation
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James Piereson, a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, discusses the genesis of the American nation-state. Audio taken from The New Criterion’s “Sovereignty or Submission” conference in Washington, D.C.
An adapted form of this address appeared in the January 2020 issue of The New Criterion as “The idea of an American nation.”
February 28, 2019
James Piereson & James Panero discuss the Trump presidency
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Occasioned by “Trumping right along,” Piereson’s review of Victor Davis Hanson’s new book, The Case for Trump, in our March 2019 issue.