Articles by Glenn Ellmers

‘That We Here Highly Resolve . . . ’

May 24, 2019 in , , , /by

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Understanding Google’s Military Mindset

May 7, 2019 in , , , , , , , /by

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Soul, Man

March 13, 2019 in , , , , /by

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The Indispensable Guide to the Matrix

February 15, 2019 in , , , , , , , /by

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Ambition and the Ends of Government

January 8, 2019 in /by

One of my favorite journals, The New Criterion, recently posted an article by one of my favorite commentators, James Piereson (disclosure: I’ve know Jim for 30 years, since I worked for him at the John M. Olin Foundation), which pours some some clear water of Machiavellian realism into the muddy debate over Trump’s character.   […]

How to Think about Property Rights and Social Networks

November 28, 2018 in , , , , , , /by

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A Winning President is Better Than a Presidential President

August 9, 2018 in , , , , , , , , , , , /by

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‘The Things I Saw Beggar Description . . .’

June 23, 2018 in /by

Day by day, the regressive Left drags American society closer to violent conflict.  First, it was ok to punch fascists, or systematically to infiltrate an opponent’s campaign rallies and instigate conflicts.  Now, senior officials in the Trump administration are targeted at their homes, and may not even eat or shop in peace.  These examples are at […]

Europe’s War of Contrition

June 10, 2018 in /by

Sometimes a picture isn’t just worth 1,000 words, but 1,000 years of history.  This tableau, justly famous already, depicts (with only slight exaggeration) the future of western civilization. For some decades, it has been clear that Europe’s elites are in a nihilistic death-spiral.  While many ordinary citizens still have the spiritedness to defend their rights […]

The ‘Perpetual Dread’ of the Left

May 29, 2018 in /by

As the first bloody spasm of liberalism’s utopian convulsions, the French Revolution is rife with antecedents.  Portrait of an Average Woman, Christian Zweig’s masterful biography of Marie Antoinette, brims with vivid canvasses in red and black, describing the sanguinary and nihilistic terror that claimed 40,000 souls on the guillotine. A tweet thread today by one […]

The Wise Guy Wisdom of the Trump Revolution

May 22, 2018 in , , , , , , , , , , , , /by

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Deep Thoughts

May 21, 2018 in /by

Never mind what you’ve read here, or here.  The “deep state” doesn’t exist. But don’t take my word for it. The Nation says so, based on the word of Michael Hayden, formerly director of the NSA and CIA, and former deputy director of national intelligence.  And, c’mon, who can you trust about these things if not […]

Whiteness is All – Pt 2

May 9, 2018 in /by

The very thoughtful Thomas Chatterton Williams,  who I quoted in yesterday’s post about Ta-Nehisi Coates, has his own response to Coates’ Atlantic essay in The American Scholar.  It’s worth reading the whole, relatively short, article.  But two passages stand out: Coates “claims for himself, here and elsewhere, a Mullah-like authority to assert communal possession of […]

Whiteness is All?

May 8, 2018 in /by

The latest installment of The Confessions of Saint Ta-Nehisi Coates, appearing yesterday in The Atlantic, takes the form of a jeremiad against the iniquities of Kanye West.  Embedded in lengthy autobiographical ruminations that have become his trademark, Coates reflects on his memories of Michael Jackson, and how Jackson “had always been dying—dying to be white. […]

Jordan Peterson Gives Scary Talk to Secret Meeting of 1,800 Extremists

May 5, 2018 in /by

Last night, I got to hear Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, author of the best-selling 12 Rules for Life, speak at the Warner Theater in downtown Washington, DC.  Before a packed house, he gave a 90-minute extemporaneous lecture on consciousness, honesty, setting goals, empathy, self-discipline, and the problem of not seeing gorillas. Peterson is on a worldwide […]

Journalism 0-1

May 3, 2018 in /by

Journalism—the “professional” kind, the sort taught at the Columbia School of Journalism—is dead.  Yet, zombie-like, it shambles on, eating the brains of both its consumers and its practitioners. There is a short but brutal chapter on journalists in Nassim Taleb’s Skin in the Game. You can trust Taleb’s judgment for the most part because he […]

Looking Without Seeing

May 1, 2018 in /by

Fans of the fantastic HBO series “Westworld” (the second season of which just started) will know that when one of the cyborg “hosts” encounters something that conflicts with its programming it will intone, “Doesn’t look like anything to me.”  This response bears an uncanny resemblance to how the leftist collective deals with any news it can’t […]

Hear ‘Ye, Hear ‘Ye

April 25, 2018 in /by

A few months ago, Dave Rubin (one of the best podcast interviewers on YouTube ) spoke with the African-American writer and producer Candace Owens about how she was “red-pilled” and became a conservative.  Last week, Owens spoke at UCLA where she responded to the Black Lives Matters hecklers in the audience by rejecting the victim […]

Greatness of Sowell

April 16, 2018 in /by

The amazing Thomas Sowell influenced me deeply when I was a young man, and at 87 he is still going strong. The first part of his new interview with Dave Rubin was just posted today. You won’t regret it.

Shovel-Ready

April 10, 2018 in /by

A few weeks ago, in my northwest Washington D.C. neighborhood, I witnessed a most curious motorcade driving down Connecticut Avenue, transporting what appeared to be a very large crate. It turns out that “Spike,” the National Zoo’s new Asian elephant, was being delivered to his new home Today, instead of a zoo, the nation will […]