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Christian Alejandro Gonzalez

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Past:
  • National Review
  • City Journal
  • Intercollegiate Studies Institute

Past articles by Christian:

Conservative Academics Reflect on the Relationship of Politics to Scholarship

Is a self-consciously conservative approach to the humanities and social sciences desirable? Prominent right-leaning scholars are skeptical. → Read More

A Conversation With Christiana Hoff Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers tells me that she used to hold irrational beliefs. I ask her to give some examples. “Well,” she says, “I had been a Marxist.” Certain experiences in college pushed Sommers away from Marxism. As a freshman at New York University, for example, she participated in a large demonstration against the Vietnam War. At one point, the protesters decided to break into an office… → Read More

Scruton, Ferguson, and Shapiro: Who Defended the West Better?

Three books by prominent conservative thinkers like Roger Scruton and Ben Shapiro reveal good—and bad—ways to defend Western civilization. → Read More

The Antinomies of Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates the moralist historian and Ta-Nehisi Coates the cynical philosopher reach conflicting conclusions about America that Ta-Nehisi Coates the writer never tries to reconcile. → Read More

My Stepfather’s M16

A family view of Venezuela’s socialist catastrophe. → Read More

The Risks of American Intervention in Venezuela

Despite the undeniably wretched nature of the government in Caracas, there are still persuasive reasons to oppose what would be a unilateral U.S. intervention. → Read More

Yes, the Wars over Campus Politics Matter

Notwithstanding conservatives’ sometimes-hyperbolic coverage of academic leftism, the truth is that there's much at stake in university debates over intellectual freedom, racial justice, and gender inequality. → Read More

Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now Is Mostly Right

The high priest of secular humanism has much to teach us. → Read More

Suing the SPLC Could Weaken Everyone’s First Amendment Rights

Conservatives should not sue the Southern Poverty Law Center. It would set precedent that could boomerang against them. → Read More

Academia Needs Conservative Professors

Ideologically balanced faculties would enable university students to pursue their intellectual curiosities more freely. → Read More

Demarcating the Limits of Leftist Extremism

The Left needs to sort out the reasonable from the unreasonable. → Read More

Junot Díaz: Condemn the Writer, Not the Writing

Let they who are without sin be our writers, and we will be left without literature. → Read More

A Response to Corey Robin: Conservatism Isn’t about Preserving Privilege

In The Reactionary Mind, Corey Robin fails to consider the influence of classical liberalism on the Right. → Read More

Inequality and the Intellectual Dark Web

The group of heterodox thinkers lean right in how they view unequal outcomes between groups. → Read More