Fear of the Left: The Most Powerful Force in America Today
The dominant force in America and many other Western countries today is fear of the Left. This is a result of the fact that the […]
Education
Help Me Randa! Firing Back at Fresno State’s Femme Fatale
Comedian Jay Mohr has called for California State University-Fresno’s Bush-bashing English professor, Randa Jarrar, to be fired. But, as Fresno State’s Bruce Thornton notes, dismissal […]
Want to Shut Up Leftist Professors? First Ignore Them
These days the California State University Fresno isn’t getting attention for its world-class agricultural college or for its top-rated nursing program. Instead, it’s getting noticed […]
The Fiery Angel, Western Culture and Its (Dis)Contents
This week, I’m in Washington, D.C. giving a series of lectures and seminars at the Institute of World Politics, a small postgraduate school that specializes […]
How Do We Say the Things We Cannot Say?
Society becomes polarized and impoverished when obvious truths are denied. To address the ensuing malaise, government expands. When government expands, government unions flourish. And there […]
Living With Politics as War
Whoever was surprised by the hate-fest against the National Rifle Association and conservative Americans in general that followed the Parkland, Florida school shooting must not […]
University of the Swamp
Is this just a gratifying dream or a frightful, dangerous fancy: to have a government agency that cracks down on the sources of intellectual and […]
A Taxonomy of Conservatives: The Frat Bro
He might have a 5 a.m. lift with his team in a few hours, but that won’t stop him from playing another round of beer […]
Whatever the Left Touches, It Ruins
The only way to save Western civilization is to convince more people that leftism—not liberalism—is a nihilistic force. Quite literally, whatever the Left touches it […]
A Taxonomy of Conservatives: The Libertarian
His hoodied silhouette emerges from a cloud of white vapor with a few lackadaisical and interspersed smoke rings. With a copy of Atlas Shrugged in […]
Divers Measures
Recently, distinguished University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax opined that a group of students who were subject to lower admission standards than their peers […]
A Taxonomy of Conservatives: The Bookworm
Colleges are hostile environments for young Americans on the rightward end of the political spectrum. Like any living being in a hostile environment, these students […]
Fahrenheit 451 Updated
What took them so long? That was our first question when we heard the latest news about the distinguished University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy […]
America Has a Loneliness Epidemic
Americans are lonely. Our loneliness is killing us. It’s true. Loneliness is deadlier than obesity. Deadlier than smoking. And, yes, a great deal deadlier than […]
Stone Age Thinking
Reason is a fragile thing. Like a tiny, dainty woodland sprite, it can be stomped into a crushed, broken ruin by the mighty foot of […]
How Pompous Thou Art: Of Pronouns and ‘Plain Speech’
Controlling the language is an important step towards controlling many arguments; language is, in a sense, the terrain upon which arguments are fought It’s instructive, […]
Adult Supervision: Advice from the Founders
Impassioned protests following the mass shooting at a Florida high school culminated over the weekend with marches on Washington, D.C., and other cities. To properly evaluate […]
Marching Madness
In case you weren’t around for the radical tomfoolery in the 1960s, you’re now seeing the sequel. This time, however, with the ubiquity of social […]
Reject the ‘March for Our Lives’
The March for Our Lives was nothing more than political theater. Young, would-be social activists and their handlers seized upon the trauma of our society […]
Economic Nationalism Helps Workers and Strengthens the Nation
Among the many malapropisms of Donald Trump during the campaign, one in particular rankled the credentialed class. After his primary victory in Nevada, Trump intoned, […]