The Nauseous Canary Visits the Lincoln Project
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Nope, nope, nope.
Books & Culture
Homesick in Heaven
You’ll throw just like Tom Brady.
The Baby Boomers’ Dismal Legacy
In all the fields touched by the Boomers Helen Andrews profiles—technology, entertainment, economics, academia, politics, law—what they passed on to their children was worse than what they inherited.
Practical Freedom, Part III
How free are a people? Tell me whether they know the names of their neighbors along the block, and what their children are doing on a sunny day in June.
Jon Westling, R.I.P.
Among his favorite sayings was the Latin tag, An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur? (“Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?”)
Practical Freedom, Part II
You can have life, or you can have safety at all costs, but you cannot have both.
The American Family on the Precipice
Scott Yenor recognizes the family is disintegrating and that this is the result of an intentional project of the radical Left. How does one reach a modus vivendi with such people?
Practical Freedom
At every pass we have absorbed laws, not of morality, which are liberating, but of etiquette, which is a curb on adventure and genius, and of security and sloth, which deaden the soul.
Great American Clint Eastwood Marks a Milestone
“Dirty Harry” was the first film to push back against the pro-criminal Left.
A Generation’s Addiction to Victim Porn
A lifetime devoted to the cult of victimhood yields a barren life.
The Manufactured Consent of the Elites
The film is a critique of social status both in the West and the East, but it is also a wake-up call about the manufactured consent of elite journalism.
Money, Money, Money
In our recent election, counties representing 70 percent of gross domestic product voted for an oligarchic coalition of progressives, Big Tech, and Big Finance.
Joseph Epstein, In Brief
To think that a single op-ed could elicit such an effluence of opinion and such a diluvium of print is to recognize that Epstein, who will turn 84 in January, has lost none of his touch.
Describing a Lost America, But Not Helping It
Although thorough, thought-provoking, and chilling in its descriptions of the problems in America’s heartland, the prescription from “America Lost” feels like an insufficient response.
The #NewConfederacy
The distinctions are clear. Choose a side.
The Nauseous Canary Visits Happy Gavin Land!
You need to let go of your fear and anxiety . . . of being judged by others.
A Wonderful Life Requires Liberty
This Christmas season, watch Frank Capra's “It’s a Wonderful Life,” on the big screen in your town if you can—and may liberty not be forgotten.
George Orwell, Our Contemporary—Almost
Orwell—with all of the differences between his time and ours—speaks to us with authority and with renewed resonance.
American Myths in Black and White
Mythmaking is a double-edged sword. The stories we tell can build a people up or deconstruct them. Consider the contrast between “Roots” and “Hillbilly Elegy.”
Obama’s Dreams from His Presidency
The story of Barack Obama by Barack Obama is another chance for fans to ignore the facts and idolize this man’s face.