Like Peace, Consensus is Not the Absence of War
In Leviathan (1651), writing about the state of nature as war, Thomas Hobbes famously noted: “For War consisteth not in battle only, or the act […]
In Leviathan (1651), writing about the state of nature as war, Thomas Hobbes famously noted: “For War consisteth not in battle only, or the act […]
What if something like CNN and modern communications were around in early 1945? What if the rules of presidential news coverage were then as they […]
In 2018, it already appears that the Left will have to reckon with a famous lesson from a book that most of them have likely […]
One of the things that made “Disruptive Politics in the Trump Era,” John Fonte’s recent column for American Greatness, so provocative was his insight that […]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: The stench of failure hangs over Mr. X’s White House. The people know it, judging by the […]
I have been silent about Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, not because I lack interest in the case, but because it has already […]
Imagine still hanging around parking lots—wearing a hoodie—in your mid-40s. Such is the tragedy of Marshall Mathers’ (a.k.a., Eminem) rebirth from pitchfork picador to corporate […]
As if on cue and without so much as an altar call, an entire generation of sexual libertines announced their overnight conversion to sexual propriety. […]
Heads exploded over the weekend in response to a Washington Post article that claimed the Centers for Disease Control would “ban” seven words in all […]
Last week, I discussed the swamplarkers, those D.C. denizens who sift through the sands of time and sin looking for that golden nugget of “gotcha” […]
The most effective way for the media to have refuted Donald Trump’s 24/7 accusations of “fake news” would have been to publish disinterested, factually based […]
Free speech has come under attack on two fronts since Donald Trump was elected president. Many unhappy with his victory charge that Russia interfered in […]
Donald Trump is a famously paradoxical figure: A nonpolitician who vaulted directly into the nation’s highest political office. A billionaire who seeks to speak for […]
In recent weeks have been dominated, as they have been for much of the past year , with talk of Russian social engineering to influence […]
A year has now passed since Donald J. Trump was elected president of the United States. Trump frequently refers to the daily barrage of attacks […]
After tech giants testified before Congress on Tuesday, Americans should realize the richest and most powerful U.S. companies wield power and influence in a way […]
The academy’s liberal infrastructure often seeks to justify its existence by enforcing political correctness. When this infrastructure’s subunit at Boise State University recently pounced on […]
It could be that I’m from the Soviet Union, or it could be that I love dystopian literature, but I was always under the impression […]
The brouhaha over political demonstrations during the National Anthem makes me think of a scene from “Junior Bonner,” a 1972 Sam Peckinpah film about rodeo […]
Sunday was a rough day for the NFL and for football fans. U.S. Senator Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), never one to miss an opportunity to oppose […]