Is ‘America First’ Un-Christian?
Peter Leithart’s recent essay in First Things, ”On Trump and Trumpism,” is a reasonably good summary of what many practicing Christians—or at least practicing Catholics—think about […]
First Amendment
‘Indoctrinationism’: The Ideology of Speech Policing
Speech policing in the United States, often called “political correctness,” has inspired much resentment and concern along with advocacy. Right now only its advocates have […]
Memo to DeVos: Roll Back the Title IX Madness
Imagine for a moment you’re the male student at Amherst College, who, after a night out drinking with friends, accompanied a fellow student back to […]
Swampland’s Ten Commandments
The Trump family is no doubt canny about the dog-eat-dog landscapes of the Manhattan real estate lagoon. But when the Trumps arrived in Washington, as […]
Fake News Sure Didn’t Start With Trump
Contrary to the narrative of Donald Trump’s friends and foes alike, the phenomenon of “fake news” long precedes the 2016 presidential election, even if the […]
Milo Yiannopoulos’ ‘Dangerous’: A Manifesto for the Transgressive Right
When the Richard Strauss opera “Salome,” based on Oscar Wilde’s play of the same name, first premiered in the United States, critics dismissed it as […]
Religious Liberty Fireworks at the Supreme Court
Legal fireworks concerning religious freedom exploded in what some commentators hailed as the most important case of the term, Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer, decided […]
CNN’s Maoism Should Be a Wakeup Call on Leftist Intolerance
In the ultimate display of irony-averse stupidity, Fraud News Network CNN threatened an American citizen on this fourth of July. The occasion was the now-infamous […]
Trump Provokes CNN’s Self-Immolation, America Relieved
A couple of weeks ago in this space, I speculated that CNN, the Crackpot News Network, had reached the terminal stage of malevolent implausibility. “[I]t […]
It Takes a Muslim to Turn the Media on the SPLC
One wonders why it took the branding of a Muslim as a hater by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for the mainstream media to […]
Islamism Isn’t a Religion, It’s a Political System at War with Us
Last week, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs convened a hearing on political Islam, also called “Islamism.” The committee invited four witnesses: […]
Feds Act as Muscle for Mosques
The U.S. Department of Justice is acting as the muscle of local mosques and riding roughshod over the zoning laws of local cities and towns […]
The Biggest Threat to the First Amendment is the Press Itself
The media has been deceptive and/or outright lying about Trump for a long time now. Mollie Hemingway detailed just a few of their whoppers in […]
The Hellscape of an SJW’s “City in Speech”
A curious document has begun to make the rounds on social media. The “Alternatives/Substitutes for Problematic Language” (you now need to request permission to view […]
Differ with the Southern Poverty Law Center? You’re Evil!
How many far-left groups inspire violent physical attacks on mainstream advocacy organizations or intellectuals and yet still manage to maintain a more or less squeaky-clean […]
The Eisenhower Solution to Mob Rule
There is much that our 45th president can find to admire in our 34th, Dwight D. Eisenhower. President Eisenhower was both one of the top […]
Who Will Veto the Hecklers?
President Donald Trump fantasizes from time to time about “opening up” the nation’s libel laws to give himself – and presumably other rich and famous […]
If Speech is Violent, What Next?
In the aftermath of the infamous Battle for Berkeley, the subsequent debacle surrounding Ann Coulter’s invitation to the University of California’s flagship campus, not to […]
Students Act like Little Fascists Because They Refuse to Grow Up
It’s no secret that elite university campuses are hostile to a broad swathe of ideas and that many enrolled at them often reject with a […]
Constitutional Buffoonery from the Federal District Courts
The temporary nationwide injunctions placed on President Trump’s most recent executive order, issued March 6 (“Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United […]