Common Sense About China
China’s goal, Brian Kennedy writes, is “demoralizing the United States to the point where America believes that further resistance is futile.” They can’t succeed without the help of America’s elite.
Books & Culture
Cancel Sports!
We cannot ignore the ways that sporting actively perpetuates American inequality.
The Way of Richard Brookhiser
Honor, decency, gratitude, and integrity; from these values do statues take shape. From these values do men build monuments and memorials.
None Dare Call It Conspiracy and Its Insights for Today
Gems of wisdom abound in this book that enjoyed huge but fleeting popularity during the Vietnam era, but is perhaps more relevant today than when it was written.
That Kiss!
How a spontaneous kiss momentarily reminded us of a saner, happier reality—beyond COVID-19 and beyond #MeToo mercenaries.
The Cancel Coven of the SPLC Gets New Life
A Q&A with Tyler O’Neil, author of Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Shut Up and Coach—If (and Only If) You’re Not Woke
On the impending “cancellation” of OSU’s Mike Gundy over a t-shirt and other offenses.
Who Controls the Past Controls the Future
Assessing the History Channel’s “Grant.”
Documentary Offers Respectful Insight Into a Sad But Thoughtful Online World
“TFW No GF” is shorthand for “The feeling when you have no girlfriend,” and the search for community and identity among these young men left behind by American society is worth understanding and exploring.
Cuba’s Ongoing Threat to U.S. Interests
The United States cannot remake Cuba into a more successful country, but at the same time, we can have no interest in encouraging its failures.
‘Grant’ and the Left-Wing MEET Complex
Let’s stop reacting to leftist narratives and instead direct our energies into both marginalizing them and replacing their products with our own.
Rage Against the Effective Republican
For John Pitney, it is Trump who has needlessly created a climate of incivility. And far from making America great again, Trump has come in to wreck it.
The Venezuelan Collusion of
Danny Glover
In 2007, Hugo Chávez’s oil-rich Venezuela paid one of its Hollywood supporters tens of millions of dollars to produce a film. Thirteen years later it remains unmade and the money is unaccounted for.
Protecting the Official Myth of Matthew Shepard
Stephen Jimenez’s brand of reporting is an endangered species in the wasteland of modern media.
The ‘Architect’ Has Left the Building
In the mid-1950s, there were certain risks associated with being a black rock-and-roll superstar, although “rock and roll” and “superstar” were not yet words in everyone’s vocabulary.
X: The Thrilling Return of Free-Thinking Punk
X is back, and not a minute too soon.
The King Is Dead, Long Live the King
American rock-n-roll architect Little Richard joins the great jam session in the sky.
When TV and Film Still Had Heart
Steven J. Cannell and John Hughes were ’80s greats. How could two people create shows and movies that varied so much between the absurd and the comical to the serious? And, today, what is the goal? It’s like there is a competition to see who can create more darkness.
Hillary on Hulu
It is ironic that the former secretary of state fought for much of her life trying to prove that being a woman didn’t hold her back, but when it came to running for president she couldn’t forget the fact herself.
She Got the Beat: A Go-Go’s Search for Family
This is a wise and spiritually rich book by a true rock and roll survivor.