Last Friday featured Peter Hitchens reflecting on his labors to defend public order and decency from the onslaught of drug legalization. “It was in the course of trying to combat the campaign for marijuana legalization, over many years, that it came to me that I was not challenging reasonable opponents but fanatics and zealots.” We should heed him when he says that while legalization has already failed on its own terms, failing to reduce the criminal element of the drug trade, it continues to be an effective tool of social revolution.

The latest installment of the “American System” series introduced readers to an oft forgotten early American conservative. In 1940, Peter Viereck wrote an essay in the Atlantic explaining that though an impoverished twenty-three year old he was neither a liberal, nor a communist, nor a fascist, but a conservative. Viereck articulated a humanist character to being a conservative that, at the time — when conservatism was not yet synonymous with the Republican party or opposition to New Deal programs — could transcend party for the good of maintaining American law and tradition.

The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team usually contends for the World Cup title, making the women’s World Cup sometimes more fun for American soccer fans than the men’s tournament. But this year the women performed like the men, expectations dashed with a bad penalty kick from Megan Rapinoe. Assistant editor John Hirschauer looked at the ways we talk about men’s and women’s sports differently, suggesting it’s a good thing, because men and women are different. But the therapeutic comfort with which we respond to women’s failures should remind us of that difference, and how absurd it is when women, even athletic women, demand to be treated like men.

Best,
Micah Meadowcroft
Web Editor

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