The ‘Print the Legend’ Obsession
The press now knows that the facts don’t really matter. What it chooses to report does.
In Passing: Throwing Out the Rubbish
To be human is to cherish what makes us human. Not to collect, but to preserve and pass on what was worth the time of your life. Is that now a thing of the past?
About Going to College
The system cannot be reformed. It must be reestablished on new foundations.
Deus Ex Machina
Religion may be where we find some idea of heaven. But we are here. Let’s make the most of it.
Rushdie’s Right to Write Is Worth My Dying For
Freedom of thought is what makes everything else possible. Surrender is not an option.
The Religion of America Is Freedom
But it has an active and clever competitor in socialism.
‘Nixonian’ Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Fifty years after Richard Nixon’s great landslide victory, we have a clearer idea about the political interests that stood against him. The more things have changed, the more they’ve stayed the same.
An American Character
Isabella Bird’s 19th-century memoir is an unintended portrait of what made us.
Our ‘High Noon’ Has Come
We learn by our mistakes. But if we deny them, we learn nothing.
On Purpose
You can’t have a good life without investing in the project.
On Freedom
Put simply, freedom is the ability to act without constraint. It does not demand anything. It expects nothing.
Won’t Get Fooled Again
We don’t need the new boss. We need a change. Self-government is something we have done before, and we can do it again.
Where It Begins
Destroying the books has always been a key to destroying a culture. We must save our own culture before we save anyone else’s.
The Authorities are Revolting
The old double-edged saw, “The peasants are revolting,” has been turned on its head.
Westerns Are Us
What remnants of the Western endure will be the survival of American culture.
The Dysphoria of Modern Life Is Its Obvious Weakness
The irony of postmodernism, a critical metaphysics which dwells on irony for sustenance, is that there is no there there.
The Future of the Book Is the Future of Mankind
Freedom is extremely dangerous, but without it, there is no future.
The Gift of Fire
Books are both a window and a mirror; objects made precious by reading, become the touchstones of a life.
The Republic Is Dead
As fate would have it, the time for a rediscovery of man and the restatement of a philosophy of free men is now.