Myth-Making in the Modern Age: A Primer
The myth that January 6 was an insurrection that aimed to “overthrow the government” must not be allowed to stand. The time to counter the Big Lie is now.
The Freedom Façade
You still hear people talk about individual liberty and the rule of law, but the slogans are shot through with a brittle cynicism.
Civilizational Suicide, Not Omicron, Is Killing Us
Emergencies justify emergency powers, and emergency powers mean that you can push ahead with your agenda on all fronts.
Oh, Oh, Omicron!
The new COVID variant is an excuse for control—the little frisson that comes with the exercise of power and lording it over other people.
The COVID Follies Play Again
We are not yet done with the COVID follies, not by a long shot.
The Right Outcome for Rittenhouse, But…
It’s possible that the fates will smile kindly on Kyle Rittenhouse. More likely, however, he will be rendered radioactive, a pariah.
Thinking Critically About ‘Critical Thinking’
Reason allows us to distinguish between appearance and reality; but our reality turns out to be rooted firmly in the realm of appearance.
Conspiracy Theory or Conspiracy In Fact?
Something to keep in mind about January 6 is when the Soothsayer came to warn Caesar about the Ides of March, he wasn’t warning about a conspiracy theory. He was warning about a conspiracy in fact.
Low Characters in Ludicrous Situations
Are we living through the “dark” or “black” comedy that elite opinion, which likes to smirk but hates happy endings, loves to wallow in?
The Farce of American Despotism
The Soviets had the gulag, we have “cancel culture” in our universities and a brittle obsession with race and weirdo sexuality everywhere.
Art Under Peer Pressure
If Jasper Johns can be said to have “redefined the art of our time,” it is because of the steady pressure that the growing embrace and exaltation of his work has exerted on contemporary taste.
Garland Just Tipped Over the Dominos
Parents across the country have suddenly woken up to the wokeness haunting their schools and poisoning the minds of their children.
Claremont Under Fire
Expect the fury of the attacks on the Claremont Institute and scholars like John Eastman to increase.
How It Might End, Act I
It seems to be that we have alarm bells going off all around us. The oddity is that so few people seem to hear them.
The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Milley
You see why Tucker Carlson called Milley a “reckless nutcase.” He apparently believes that the military answers to him.
A Failure of Memory and Nerve
We don’t remember much, it seems, or for long.
‘Adults,’ ‘Progress,’ and Disaster
Historians will look back at the Great Afghan Fumble of 2021 and say it was there and then that the United States took a large public step towards its own diminishment.
A Lesson for Joe Biden
With an assist from Fyodor Dostoyevsky
and H. G. Wells.
and H. G. Wells.
The Rotten Edifice Revealed
In Afghanistan, the technocratic legitimacy of our administrative masters is being exploded.
Killing Art
Art is not just something we “go along with.”