What the Imminent Janus Ruling Means for Government Unions
The U.S. Supreme Court is about to rule on Janus v. AFSCME, a case that challenges the ability of public sector unions to force government […]
Education
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 […]
Tom Wolfe, 1930–2018: On the Late Literary Treasure
Editor’s note: This essay appears in the June 2018 issue of the The New Criterion. It is reprinted by their kind permission. The passing of Tom Wolfe last month at […]
How to Resurrect California’s Republican Party
Anyone taking a look at California’s June 2018 state primary ballot would have plenty of evidence to suggest the Republican Party in that state is […]
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 Democrats Depend Upon Antisemitic Votes
The Anti-Defamation League’s map of antisemitic incidents is almost the same as the map of blue states. Liberal Massachusetts, Florida, Pennsylvania, and California are the […]
The Great Wall of Harvard
President Trump’s vow to change a “rigged system” helped propel him to victory over stodgy supporters of “liberal” and “conservative” non-alternatives. His Department of Justice […]
A Taxonomy of Conservatives: The Policy Wonk
He has an encyclopedic knowledge of all recent studies that line up with his own ideas and pithy one-line complaints about the methodologies of those […]
Wolfe’s Witness
Tom Wolfe died last week. His works will live on for a long time. There is a scene in Wolfe’s 1968 book The Electric Kool-Aid […]
Make America Not Small Again
On the eve of the release of the IG report, President Trump can be seen in relief against the backdrop of a year and a […]
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 […]
#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 […]
The War on Wisdom
There is more knowledge available today than ever before in history. But few would argue people are wiser than ever before. On the contrary, many […]
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 […]
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 […]