Wish You Weren’t Here
In a single stroke, Ron DeSantis tore the mask off hypocrisy of the smug faces of the liberal elites who love crowing about the virtues of “diversity” and the evils of “whiteness.”
A Just Prejudice
Like Burke, Russell Kirk understood that an affirmation of the customary and conventional is the most reliable safeguard for individuality and fructifying idiosyncrasy.
Biden Puts the ‘Total’ in Totalitarianism
America has come perilously close to the edge of the point of no return.
Biden’s Debt Transference and Enforcement Arm
Work hard. Save your money. Pay your debts. Then get saddled with someone else’s debts because you didn’t have the foresight to be improvident at the opportune moment.
The Feds Go Too Far
Raiding Donald Trump’s private residence without compelling justification, the FBI violated Gertrude Stein’s rule about knowing how far to go when going too far.
A Token of the Managerial Age Bewails Trump’s Surge
David Brooks is very worried the FBI’s raid of
Mar-a-Lago helps Trump.
Mar-a-Lago helps Trump.
The Grasshopper Elite and Its Enemy
Unfortunately, those loud and troublesome pests, though few, control almost all the levers of political and state police power.
Trump Stays in the Picture
There is a certain anxiety evident in current anti-Trump imprecations, made more understandable when one looks at the polls.
Big Government Benevolence
The union of abstract benevolence, which takes mankind as a whole for its object, with unbridled moralism is a toxic, misery-producing brew.
Regime Propaganda, Ray Epps, and the New York Times
In order to understand what the Times is up to, one needs to approach its stories as one would approach those emitted by the Soviet Union or other totalitarian regimes.
Trumped Up J6 Hearings Pump Trump Up
If Trump is the candidate, Americans will vote for him not in spite of January 6, but in part because of it—especially the deep-state response to it.
Of Dustbins and Binmen
If an intelligent janitor or maid cannot tell the difference between a genuine work of art and an art-world fraud then it is probably a pile of rubbish and should be treated accordingly.
Dobbs Reveals the Prospect of a Winning Right
The Left, and the spineless Right, have done everything possible to resuscitate the nerveless impotence that prevailed on the Right before Trump. Dobbs shows why that’s not going to happen.
Joe Incompetent
Adam Smith was trying to be consoling when he said “there’s a deal of ruin in a nation.” Yes, there is. But Joe Biden is testing the limits of that home truth.
The ‘Get Trump’ Show
It is never the pretext—putative Russian collusion or protests at the Capitol—that is at issue but rather the ontological unacceptability of Trump and all he stands for.
Dismantle the D.C. Company Town
It’s time that Americans faced up to the reality that their governing apparat is a corrupt, self-engorging Leviathan.
Alasdair MacIntyre’s Essential Liberalism
In recoiling from the fragmentation of values that characterizes modernity, MacIntyre has presented less an alternative to the depredations of liberal individualism than an escape from its challenges.
Signs and Portents: Elon Musk’s Growing Political Maturity
The Left’s misery continues to Elongate.
Thoughts on Our Faucian Bargain
Decades of pocket-lining by the arrogant bureaucrats at National Institutes of Health should be subject to public scrutiny and, if we are lucky, legal penalty.
The Disinformation Governance Machine
It is critical that we stand up to and forthrightly reject the Biden Administration's unconscionable new assault on freedom.