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 […]
First Amendment
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 […]
Trump-Era Media Are Objectively Biased
Much has been written about the political and ideological one-sidedness of TV networks like Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC, but in the larger scheme of […]
To Restore Free Speech, Discipline is Necessary
Some students at Kennesaw State University outside Atlanta have filed a lawsuit against the university, and for a very good reason. They are members of […]
Of Course Trump Should Defend Himself
House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) on Sunday suggested President Trump should not publicly criticize Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into his 2016 campaign. […]
This Sensitivity Ploy Could Blow Up in Librarians’ Faces
A group of librarians at Boston’s Simmons College are attempting to breathe new life into an old librarian stereotype. An “Anti-Oppression Library Guide” takes library […]
Woke Politics Makes for Bitter Brew
Where’s a cop when you need one? That’s a common observation made when one has been victimized. Maybe they’re busy elsewhere. Police can’t be everywhere. […]
Civility, Not Surrender
Two recent articles, “How Progressives Win the Culture War” by David Brooks and “A Hillary Staffer Goes to CPAC” by Annafi Wahed have generated discussion […]
The Great Social Media Purge: No One Is Safe
Social media is often abuzz with politics—from immigration and gun control to infrastructure and tariffs. Rarely is the social media itself the topic of discussion. […]
The Great Information War is Here
A few days after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, many conservative commentators began to notice they were also being targeted. […]
And the Oscar Goes To . . .
The best acceptance speeches are the most gracious ones. I will be grateful if those are the only speeches actors and directors deliver at the […]
Sympathy for #TheResistance
Recently, a Trump skeptical friend of mine shared a certain embarrassingly shrill series of tweets with me, remarking gloomily that it was “The Trump-re-elect in […]
Billy Graham’s Legacy: Christianity Making a Global Comeback
On Wednesday, the world lost a man who arguably has had a greater, larger, and more positive impact on mankind in the last century than […]
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
Stop calling “snowflakes” snowflakes. Stop misrepresenting the greatness of the latter with the god-awfulness of the former, whose ranks include students and citizens too precious […]
Tear Down That Wall . . . of Silence
As the Obama wall of silence begins to crumble, the FBI’s reputation is befouled by its own rash actions, a politicized Justice Department stands revealed […]
Hatred By the Numbers
How do they hate thee; let us count the ways. Critics of President Trump came up with a variety of numbers for their hatreds after […]
The Warmbiers and the Crutches: Bearing Powerful Witness
In our hyper-cynical age, it’s very easy to dismiss political theater as naked manipulation. It becomes much harder to do that when you’re weeping. Between […]
The Media Octopus and How to Fight It
The unholy alliance between the Compromised Media and the Democratic Party is today inarguable. The two have become largely indistinguishable in both ideology and, often, […]
Can the First Amendment Protect Us from the Ruling Class?
Congress shall make no law” restricting the free exercise of religion, freedom of speech, or of association. Aside from Christ’s distinction between duties to God […]