The Respect Deficit
He was duly and legally elected. It was a surprise to many and a great disappointment to a large number of voters. Many were enraged […]
First Amendment
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 […]
Countdown to Triviality!
One of the great banes of 21st-century American culture is TV’s “countdown clock,” which ominously winds down to the start of a media hyped event. […]
Mueller Year One: The Real Heroes in Journalism
The American media are broken. align=”right” Part one of a two-part series.After eight years of feeding the Obama cult of personality—swooning over his suave personal […]
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 […]
The Cry Bully vs. the Chaplain
U.S. Army Chaplain Scott Squires is the latest Evangelical Christian military clergyman to be sued for being reluctant to affirm gay marriage wholeheartedly. The Fort […]
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 […]
Wolf at the Door
Remember when the Left was actually funny? Deliberately funny, I mean, not simply ridiculous. For the youngsters who literally do not remember that (and that […]
The Joys of Anti-Hate
It is one thing to document objectively crimes that target individuals because they are members of a particular identity group. It is another thing to […]
‘Roseanne’ and the Game of Identity Politics
Margaret Thatcher said, “First you win the argument, then you win the vote.” I wish that were true. Usually, it’s not. People don’t often decide […]
How Kevin Williamson Was Blinded by the Right, Fired by the Left
Kevin Williamson’s primal whine of a weekend essay in the Wall Street Journal reported that he was fired by the Atlantic magazine after serving an […]
Meowing Media Fuel Mass Delusion of Russian Collusion
Every mass delusion has a beginning. One day in the Middle Ages, a French nun began meowing. Other nuns soon joined in. Soon, all the […]
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 […]
Zuckerberg’s A.I. Hope is a Free Speech Nightmare
The most terrifying thing about Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance on Tuesday before a special joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees wasn’t anything he […]
No Algorithm for the Human Soul
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week faced questions from powerful committees in both houses of Congress on the subject of how the social […]
The Creeping and Creepy March of the Progressive Totalitarian Impulse
As a foreigner living in the United Kingdom, the first thought that occurred to me watching “The Death of Stalin” last month was how bleak and […]
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 […]
Anti-Trump Appeasers on the Right Empower the Mob
Before I get into the firing of Kevin Williamson, let me say this: Williamson is a talented, unique, and compelling writer. I have complimented his […]
When Conservatives Make Peace With a Godless America
Many years ago, I attended a dinner at a wealthy man’s New York City condo with, among others, one of the most prominent and influential […]
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 […]