Wisdom, Unwisdom, and Jordan Peterson
The university takes upon itself two tasks: to educate the young in the most important things that can be learned from books, and to push […]
The Whipped-Cream Boys of Affirmative Action
Wouldn’t it be marvelous if there were some public policy by which the United States could mitigate the shameful legacy of slavery? The descendants of […]
Second Amendment Duties
I don’t own a gun. I have never fired a gun. That means that my safety, the safety of my family, and the security of […]
A Tale of Two Cities: Charlottesville v. Seattle
What happened in Charlottesville? Here is the “drive-by” media narrative: a progressive mayor and his progressive deputy worked to remove a statue of slaveholder and […]
Of Paper and Paper Tigers
For 67 years the United States and the world have paid the price of Harry Truman’s decision to renounce the possibility of victory in Korea. […]
Combating the Power of Media Lies
In the last few days two supposed revelations have shaken Donald Trump’s Presidency. The first, the May 15 Washington Post claim that in a meeting […]
Draining the Academic Swamp
Civil rights historian Abigail Thernstrom once spoke of the American campus as “an island of repression in a sea of freedom.” That was in 1989. […]
Chairman of the Board Trump
With the rise of the modern corporation, we have come to see the corporate CEO as the paradigm for leadership. We expect that Trump, the […]
America Needs Constitutionalist Judges, not Conservative Ones
In foreign and domestic policy, Barack Obama has left a legacy to President Trump that it will take years of hard work to overcome. The […]
Most Great to Them that Know
Christians, we are told by the greatest of their teachers going back to Augustine, are citizens of two cities: An earthly city to which they […]
America’s Interest in Sharing the World
Since 1941, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt dictated the principles of the Atlantic Charter to Winston Churchill, American elites have thought in terms of “running the […]
She Blinded Me With ‘Science’!
Tonight’s debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is sure to bring many heated exchanges and supply plenty of soundbites for tomorrow’s morning news shows. […]
Election Day in Dreamland
Barney Frank famously said, “Government is simply a word for the things we decide to do together.” Whatever one may say about the ultimate shallowness […]