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Books & Culture
TCM Will Show You More About How the World Works Than CNN Can
The greatest deficit today is not in the budget or in foreign trade—it’s in common sense.
Abortion Is Not Just Someone Else’s Bad Luck
Myth: Bad things happen to a lot of people, and the aborted fetus is simply the victim of bad luck.
Is Our Fate Really Out of Our Hands?
Popular opinion—like politics in general—is changeable, and can change again in sudden and unexpected ways.
The Neocon Roots of Our Current Crisis
By failing to oppose, and sometimes even supporting the Left’s project of turning egalitarianism into the nation’s utmost moral good, the neoconservative Right has allowed the pursuit of equality to reach truly puritanical levels.
Dancing with Androids
In a new HBO Max sci-fi series, the eyes contain layers of complexity, which is why light is not proof of enlightenment.
Netflix’s ‘Social Dilemma’ Is the Left’s Infomercial to Preserve Power
The documentary is not a courageous challenge to Big Tech power. It’s an infomercial pushing for government protection for existing monopolies.
Canceling Olympic Cancel Culture
It’s time for great Americans to finally get their gold.
The UFC Fights On
Once America’s most reviled sport, mixed martial arts seized center stage as the UFC continued staging live events while every other professional sports league took a knee on the sidelines.
Get Ailes!
“The Man in the Arena” tells the story of a man in full. Roger Ailes was energetic, ambitious, unorthodox, creative, brilliant, charming, disarming, and a bunch of other things that made all kinds of different people yell, at critical moments, “Get Ailes!”
The ‘Knives’ Are Out for You
Rian Johnson’s 2019 all-star “mystery” is propaganda, not a warning.
The Mad Diversity Queen Under Siege
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division’s recognition of Yale’s discriminatory admissions process is a pleasant surprise to Americans weary of racial double standards.
What the Unholy Left-Right Alliance Undermining Immigration Enforcement Means for the 2020 Election
There is no doubt that the election on November 3 will have a momentous effect on all the issues related to immigration policy.
No Laughing Matter
Sometimes it takes a comedian to have both the perspective and the courage to speak the truth. Which makes Evan Sayet’s The Woke Supremacy essential reading today.
Whatever Happened to Gary Cooper?
Cooper’s Marshal Will Kane does his job, in spite of everything people believe about themselves because he learns that people are not really good at heart.
Effective Methods to Counter Bullying
Victor Stops the School Bully is truly one of the best juvenile-fiction reads on the topic of bullying, bullying dynamics, and how to finally put an end to one of the gravest, often-underreported threats to child safety and wellbeing.
‘Apocalypse Never’ Takes Direct Aim at Consensus Climate Alarmism
This environmental humanist agenda that prioritizes love for humanity is a direct challenge to climate alarmists, who must now answer the question, as Michael Shellenberger writes “are they motivated by love for humanity or something closer to its opposite?”
Scorch the Field
It is good for us to play sometimes, and not fight. In reality, people are united by what the political utilitarian cannot recognize: by play and song and worship.
A Long View of American Life
Do we choose wisdom or folly? We should choose wisely but, in the choosing, also make sure to bring along a sense of humor.
A Blueprint for American Greatness
Rep. Ken Buck’s (R-Colo.) new book provides the blueprint for correcting the progressive curricula infecting our schools.