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Justin Lee

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As seen in: Arc Digital, First Things, Medium, The Independent (UK), Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Motherboard, Return, Los Angeles Review of Books, The American Conservative, Lexology, UnHerd, Flaunt and
Covers:  Politics, U.S.; Religion; Literature
When the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, find me playing in the surf | Associate Editor @firstthingsmag

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Associate Editor, Arc Digital; Contributor, The Independent, Spectator USA, First Things.

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Pro-lifers, it's time for civil disobedience | Spectator USA

Pro-lifers, it's time for civil disobedience | Spectator USA

The Supreme Court has ruled in June Medical Services, LLC v. Russo that the dismemberment and removal of unbo…

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Opinion: Reading 'White Fragility' and canceling your friends won't make you an anti-racist

Opinion: Reading 'White Fragility' and canceling your friends won't make you an anti-racist

White Fragility is the most successful of a slew of recent books functioning as devotional guides in the nuev…

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New Faiths of the Self | Justin Lee

New Faiths of the Self | Justin Lee

C. S. Lewis wrote that to be modern is to be consumed by the magical impulse "to subdue reality to the wishes…

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White Trash Dostoyevsky

White Trash Dostoyevsky

"The virtue of all-in wrestling is that it is the spectacle of excess," wrote Roland Barthes. In so-called "p…

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The Road to Condoning Cannibalism | Justin Lee

The Road to Condoning Cannibalism | Justin Lee

I hardly know what to expect. Have you slaughtered a man before?" Bernd-Jürgen Brandes wrote to Armin Meiwes …

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Screaming into the Architectural Void

Screaming into the Architectural Void

"Look at those stairs, man," says a figment of Thomas Heatherwick's imagination, pointing at the Escher print…

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Warrior justice comes for Iran Trump’s war satisfies martial virtue

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| UnHerd Verified
The West has stopped celebrating our warriors. Credit: Getty candace owensDemocratsDonald TrumpIranIran WarIsraelJust Warnick fuentesTucker Carlson Early on in President Trump’s Iran war, a video circulated on X (formerly Twitter) of a C-RAM system intercepting an Iranian missile near the US Embassy in Baghdad. The tracer rounds were so close together, they seemed to form a continuous laser beam. Accompanying the great shear of light was a sublime sound straight out of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune.
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Justin Lee, Author at The American Mind

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| The American Mind Verified
salvo 10 minutes Wokeness looks, smells, and feels like a religion, so let’s force the courts to treat it as one.
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Only Real Masculinity Can Overcome Groyperism

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| The American Mind Verified
Nick Fuentes is a problem. His influence is growing, fueled by his deft channeling of valid grievances. He has been further buoyed by neoconservatives and the progressive Left, both of which are desperate for “Nazi” bogeymen to validate their anti-MAGA hysterics. However, their ritual denunciations of Fuentes and his groyper legions are worse than useless. They merely encourage groyperism by providing a bigger kick of frisson due to breaking social taboos.
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Awards

Elizabeth George Emerging Writers Grant

2016 - Fiction
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