Our Descent Into Collective Madness?
An ungracious and neurotic elite whose judgment is bankrupt and whose privilege is paid for by those who don’t have it threatens to drag us to the depths of unreason.
The Wages of Trump Hatred
Hating Donald Trump in the hater’s eyes makes one moral. But in the real world, such pathological fixations usually result in abject immorality and moral decline.
The World Goes On While America Sleeps
While we are busy devouring each other, China is smiling that once-feared American running-dog capitalists have become laughable Keystone Cops.
Our Animal Farm
The Left’s 1960s dream is America’s 2021 nightmare.
When (or If) Comes the Pushback?
Joe Biden is now unapologetically leading the most radical left-wing movement in the nation’s history.
Why Are Progressives So Illiberal?
Progressives adopted identity politics and rejected class considerations because solidarity with elite minorities excuses them from concern for, or experience with, the middle classes of all races.
How to Deprogram Us
Why not borrow the current Chinese “social credit system”?
The River of Forgetfulness
Before we are all reprogrammed, remember for a bit longer that the reset of memory and truth is not just a political agenda, but a holistic effort to redefine our past, present, and future.
Stabbing Hector’s Corpse
Americans hate one thing more than a sore loser, and that is an arrogant, vindictive—and bullying—winner.
An Impeachment Incitement
What is this latest impeachment gambit really about? Of course, it was a Parthian shot to discredit President Trump’s supporters.
Crazy 2020 Is Dead! Long Live Crazier 2021!
Hang on. It is going to be Mr. Toad’s wild scary ride for all of 2021.
Defenders of Civilization?
Our grandees seem too exhausted, too guilty, or too ignorant to pass on and improve the civilization they inherited for others to come.
The Virus Is Not Invincible, But It’s Exposing Who’s Irreplaceable
We're reposting a few of the more notable essays we've published this year. This article first appeared March 23, 2020.
Did Americans Come to Love Big Brother?
Millions of Americans may come to resemble Winston Smith, the defeated hero of Nineteen Eighty-Four, who at last accepts the calm.
COVID, Woke Science—and Death
In this brave new world of ours, will we be pruning back the elderly altogether by credentialed “ethicists,” whether because of their longevity or race?
‘Collusion’ vs. Collusion
One can lie about “collusion” with impunity. But to speak the truth about collusion is to be smeared as “xenophobic,” “racist,” and “nativist.”
The Scars of 2020
The summer of COVID-19, quarantines, riot and arson, and an absence of confidence in the sanctity of voting ended with deep wounds on the body politic—wounds we will bear from now on.
Why Our Universities Have Failed
Something went wrong with the rapidly expanding university in the 1960s, and the new 21st century, high-tech, globalized campus has made the mess it inherited dangerous.
A Time of Chaos Upon Chaos Atop Chaos
There is a series of battles to come in January 2021, in 2022, and in 2024 that will be definitive, if the chaos of 2020 does not become even more chaotic.
The Trump CT Scanner
Donald Trump has forced elites to reveal to the nation what they were—and perhaps had always been. And the resulting penetrating imagery showed their own malignancy.