The Modern Bonfire of the Vanities
Five centuries ago, in Renaissance Florence, the Dominican priest Girolamo Savonarola, in his quest to purge Florence of all “immoral” works of art, started what […]
Cultural Marxism
Why the Left Mocks the Bible
At PragerU, we have released about 400 videos on virtually every subject outside of the natural sciences and math. Along with 2 billion views, the […]
Caracas and the ‘Uncanny Valley’ of Socialism
I can’t eat veggie dogs. They are kind of like meat, but aren’t. Their texture and taste are almost correct, but not quite—and therein lies […]
The Climate Cult’s Missal
The sanctimonious Climate Cult never ceases to amaze and amuse in its incessant, condescending appeals to enlighten—by any means necessary—we recalcitrant heretics who refuse to […]
Ilhan Omar: The Left’s Ideal American
When President Donald Trump, the New York Post and others criticized Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for describing 9/11 as the day “some people did something,” […]
Mogadishu Comes to Minneapolis
Ridley Scott’s 2001 masterpiece, “Black Hawk Down,” has become, like his 2000 “Gladiator,” a classic tale of the triumph and tragedy as well as the […]
Why Most Jews Aren’t Bothered by the Times’ Anti-Semitic Cartoon
Last week, The New York Times published a cartoon so anti-Semitic that Bret Stephens wrote in his Times column that it was “an image that, […]
Control the Narrative, Save the West
Although the mechanism is mysterious, it often seems as though a centralized control center is issuing out for dissemination the turns of phrase and interpretations […]
Yankees: Please Apply the ‘Kate Smith Standard’ Consistently
The New York Yankees and Philadelphia Flyers sports franchises have enlivened the always-important and ongoing national debate on public morality by taking the unprecedented step […]
It’s Not Trump Derangement Syndrome
The Democrats’ behavior after 2016 is not mass delusion or mass hysteria or Trump Derangement Syndrome, or any of the other psychobabble explanations that dominate […]
Manipulating Science in the Data Age
Who are you going to believe—my academic paper/editorial/meme or your lying eyes? It’s a pressing question in today’s world of artificial intelligence, machine learning, faked […]
Want to Fix the Universities? Here Are Two Options
Once upon a time, long, long ago—in May 2005, in fact—I wrote an essay for The New Criterion with the optimistic title “Retaking the University: […]
The Great Cull . . . or the Long Boom?
When people look back on world history 100 years from now, what will they see? It is reasonable to think they will see a global […]
Pete Buttigieg and the Left’s False Piety
When South Bend, Indiana Mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg accused Vice President Mike Pence of having a problem with his sexual orientation, the […]
Appeasement in the Academy
At Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, a student club with the expressed purpose of “the preservation, dissemination and extension of the Western moral and philosophical […]
Democratic Self-Government or Mass Migration?
Editor’s Note: The following is drawn from remarks delivered in late March at the Mathias Covinus Collegium International Conference on Migration in Budapest, Hungary. If […]
Truth and Hand Washing in the Mueller Report
What is truth?” shrugged the ambitious official, stuck for the moment in flyover country but with ambitions to return to Rome and higher office. He […]
Notre Dame: An Omen
The symbolism of the burning of Notre Dame Cathedral, the most renowned building in Western civilization, the iconic symbol of Western Christendom, is hard to […]
How Democrat Crazy Can Win in 2020
The enormity of the Obama team’s political crimes—the framing and attempted take-down of a sitting President—required a propaganda machine the likes of which this country […]
Are Women Malcontents?
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] [fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] I have decided to finally read what is widely […]