How to Talk to a Wokester
Conservatives reply to woke objections with a modest offering of facts that undo the woke narrative—and get nowhere. Here’s a better way.
The Plight of the Progressive Teacher
She will stick with her vision, and if her classes get smaller, well, so be it. True believers do not weigh their truth by popularity.
Why Is Princeton Silent?
The smartest ones in our society are some of the most frightened, too.
Race-Based Illness at the Best of the Best
At elite universities one must never, ever criticize students of color, especially the black students. Those individuals are sacred.
Leftists Aren’t Losers
When progressives lose, they only try harder. On the other hand, conservatives are too easily satisfied with small victories.
The Road to Vengeance
Millennials look for meaningful existence in false gods of social justice, unable to find it where they should, in church, in tradition, in humanitas, in country.
How to Waltz Around the Leftist Two-Step
Show the activists and journalists that you have the goods, you’ve scouted the field, and you will let none of their prevarications pass any longer.
The Fears of the Elite
We aren’t a normal society, and the timid reticence of the elite whenever a charge of political incorrectness is launched is one of the sure signs of abnormality.
Presumed Guilty: The Plot of the New Civics
Collective guilt is no ground for citizenship.
Cancel Culture Isn’t So New
We have gone from English and psychology professors punishing their intractable inferiors to commissioners of professional sports and governors of liberal states punishing them.
Critical Race Theory—
You Paid for It, You Got It
When conservatives decry the advancement of critical race theory they should remember that it couldn’t have happened without the support of the people they see in the mirror.
The New Liberal Temper
Liberals have the power, but they won’t save us. Liberalism is a personality: flexible, situational, attuned to prevailing winds
Elite Liberal Guilt (Again)
From now on, when conservatives hear liberal elites alert Americans in fretful tones of a rising rabble on the Right, they should respond, “Stop trying to hide your own miserable ineptitude!”
Conservatives Must Read Marx
Popular conservative thinkers warn of the dangers of class warfare and everything-is-political thinking. But they can’t advise a subordinate class how to climb out of a pit.
A Daring Left and a Cowed Center
Too many people fail to recognize that when liberal elites sign on to “systemic racism” and other leftist concoctions they are not endorsing an ideology, they are protecting themselves.
GOP Panting Over the Restoration for Which They Dream
Any Republican politician who is not at the front in fighting election fraud should be understood quite well as one who never wanted President Trump to win in the first place.
A Reading List for the Right to Match the Times
Republicans act as if this is a political debate, a policy dispute, not a culture war. Put Hayek away, and read Mailer, Wolfe, Cleaver, Sontag . . .
The Republican Retreat on Race
Republicans, please hire some people to teach you how to seize the race issue, not run from it. The Democrat position is flimsy; it’s rhetorical, not empirical.
Cotton to Higher Ed: Loosen Up or Lose Your Money
This is a campaign issue that frightens the Left, and with good reason. Republicans should move swiftly.
The Two-Step of the Elite Professors
The question to pose to our humanities signatories is this: why have your fields proven so discouraging to African Americans? It takes quite a bit of cluelessness and self-regard to deflect your poor performance onto others.