Anthony Kennedy Got Tired of All the Winning
For the longest time, NeverTrump “conservatives” have insisted that the only good thing Donald Trump has done as president is to appoint Neil Gorsuch to […]
Cultural Marxism
Faster Feiler, Faster!
The Feiler Faster Thesis posits that the pace of social change is accelerated by the increasing rapidity of the technology used by journalists to report […]
California Gets Its MOGO Working
In 1987, California Governor George Deukmejian returned $1.1 billion directly to the people “to protect this money for the taxpayers.” In the current $200 billion […]
‘Colorism’ and the Permanent Revolution
When the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) gathered in Port Huron, Michigan, it is hard to imagine that they could have anticipated their coming […]
The Trans-Atlantic Class Struggle
At the recent G7 summit, President Trump differed with the leaders of Britain, Germany, France and Canada on a host of issues. But the real […]
The New Model Military
For the vast majority of Americans, the military is a source of pride. And because of the uncompromising nature of war, and the naturally masculine […]
Thinking Small in the Age of Greatness
The academic Left thinks big when it comes to #TheResistance. It thinks big in mounting symbolic protests such as the 2018 March for Science, the […]
The Cosmic Racist
Meet the enduring godfather of Razaismo: Any teacher can corroborate that the children and youths descended from Scandinavians, Dutch, and English found in North American […]
Having Your Cake and Eating It, Too
Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, was the most closely watched case of the 2017-2018 […]
Wisdom, Unwisdom, and Jordan Peterson
The university takes upon itself two tasks: to educate the young in the most important things that can be learned from books, and to push […]
Why Trump May Be America’s Last Republican President
Competence doesn’t win elections: bribery does. This is the central lesson in The Dictator’s Handbook, a book which studies politics in terms of interpersonal relationships […]
Politics, the Arts, and ‘The Fiery Angel’
In my new book, The Fiery Angel, out this week from Encounter Books, I make the following contention: that the arts have more to teach us about […]
Young Americans for Folly
It was the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) convention of 1968, and a conservative civil war was in the process of erupting. A vocal faction […]
Culture Wargames
The classic Marxists of the 20th century wanted to bring the entire world under Communist domination. The new Millennium’s heirs to that movement on the […]
Great Men, Black Swans, and the End of the Mandarins
One of the worst ideas in American history has been the establishment of schools of government and the professionalization of the Washington press corps. Both […]
Letitia Chai’s Barren Ivy League Education
] The most remarkable thing about the title of this column is that not one reader will think it’s a joke. That, my friends, is […]
Marx at 200 and the Ruling Class
The Bicentennial of Karl Marx’s birth (May 5, 1818) has come and gone without much fanfare, except in the People’s Republic of China. It’s not […]
Conservatism’s Flirtation with Feminism is Suicidal
As any longtime listener to President Trump’s political rhetoric knows, the president is fond of reciting Al Wilson’s classic song “The Snake.” The president usually […]
For Trump, the End of the Beginning
Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from Barack Obama’s fantasy “Iran deal” brings a much-needed dose of realpolitik to a fossilized Washington foreign-policy establishment that has […]
#NoMoreApologies
Does anyone say “department store” anymore? If you’re a Millennial or maybe even a tad older, you may not even be aware of what a […]