20th-Century Progressive Politics Continues to Unfold
The West took a turn for the worse about 100 years ago. Three versions of a new political vision—fascism, communism, and progressivism—came to power at […]
Is Common Sense Making a Comeback?
Did you notice that common sense was almost entirely missing from the two nights of the Democrats’ radicalism pageant last week? In terms of common […]
‘Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Western Civ Has Got to Go’
On January 15, 1987, Jesse Jackson and around 500 protesters marched down Palm Drive, Stanford University’s grand main entrance, chanting “Hey hey, ho ho, Western […]
See ‘Hotel Mumbai’
A new film, “Hotel Mumbai,” tells the story of the 2008 terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai. It is, I assure you, a […]
Progressive Leftists vs. Common Sense
Have you heard this one? A federal judge has ruled that the all-male military draft is unconstitutional. How did you feel about this bit of […]
Killing the Old Folks
He [Harold Ross] was reminded of a pleasant afternoon that the two of them [Ross and Mrs. Roosevelt] had spent a few years earlier, talking […]
The Trump Effect
I have a friend who tells me that attempts to understand Donald Trump in the ordinary ways we understand politicians, even truly remarkable politicians, are […]
New Year’s Eve: Marxism-Lennonism Revisited
The New Year’s Eve celebration at Times Square will again this year feature John Lennon’s song “Imagine.” We thought this article, first published in 2017, would […]
Judge Tigar Strikes Again
Judge Jon S. Tigar is back in the news. I wrote about him nearly two years ago: A federal judge ruled recently that an inmate […]
Progressives Have Arrived at Their Veruca Salt Moment
Progressives have finally lost patience with the American people. Until recently and on the whole they have been remarkably patient. From their beginning over a […]
America on the Brink—Again
In the run-up to the election of 1864, Abraham Lincoln observed “there is no program intended by the Democratic Party but what will result in […]
Straw Bans vs. Common Sense
By now you’ve heard that the Santa Barbara, California city council outlawed the distribution of disposable plastic drinking straws. For a moment, it appeared the […]
Go See ‘Death of a Nation’ This Weekend
Yes, of course you want to go see Dinesh D’Souza’s new movie! And you’re right. Inviting friends, neighbors, family to go with you and then […]
Obama bin Biden
Isn’t it clear that President Trump really enjoys upsetting the people who claim to report the news? I imagine him occasionally tuning in to CNN […]
Common Sense Wins Again!
In Britain, anyway. Pollsters took a deep dive into the British electorate soon after the Brexit vote, and came up with some interesting results. (Hat […]
America 3.0
“America 2.0” considered the plain fact that the America you and I live in is no longer the America the Founders envisioned for us. Over […]
America 2.0
The government so carefully and brilliantly designed by the Framers and embodied in the Constitution is no more. Don’t believe me? Here is James Madison’s […]
Trump’s Common Sense Realism
Have you read Richard Fernandez’s interesting article on President Trump’s decision to withdraw America from the Obama nuclear deal? It is worthy of close reading. […]
American Greatness at the Movies
Reviewing the movie “Little Pink House” for the New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis wrote the film “succeeds neither narratively nor visually.” So, there you have […]
Obama’s Foreign Policy Legacy
The American Left has made it a full-time job to cover for the Obama administration’s mishandling of our national security. This is only possible with […]