From First Principles, a symposium on the cultural impact of Obama and the New Progressivism, on economics, on education and on technocracy. Don't write off America: It's fashionable to say the US is in terminal decline; don't bet on it — still less wish for it. Is the battle for same-sex marriage worth it? Here's William Rusher's final column. Neither moderate nor centrist: Peter Robinson on how Buckley, Gergen and Brooks finally realized Barack Obama's left leanings (and a response by Buckley). Alan Wolfe on conservatism in the Age of Wurzelbacher. Intellectuals at the gates: A review of Democracy Denied, 1905–1915: Intellectuals and the Fate of Democracy by Charles Kurzman. A review of The 10000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution by Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending

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