The Hat Lady
Open yourself wide—even to strangers sometimes—and make those connections.
First Principles
Martial Arts as War, and the Second Amendment
The framers codified a martial spirit necessary for a free people.
Ukraine Demonstrates the Need for Gun Protections
It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.
The Problems of Vulture Capitalism
Vulture capitalism is a deviant and baseless form of capitalism, totally without virtue. In this fictional account of a debate between George Soros and the author, we see why.
‘This Happy Breed of Men’
There seems to be some deep connection between the English language and that most uncommon virtue, common sense.
For Your Own Good
The urge to save humanity is always an urge to rule over humanity.
Longing for Home
Perhaps “Letter from Home” is a letter to us, who have wandered into a far country, not to fight but to give ourselves up to vanity.
Unbridled Presidential Power and Executive Actions
With COVID-19 finally drawing its last breaths, now is the time to rein in the executive branch, before it establishes further precedent for power accumulation by future administrations.
Rising Crime, Self-Protection, and Finding Honest Martial Instruction
Americans who are willing to assume responsibility for their own protection by pursuing the study of a genuinely martial art should take care to seek out a proper instructor.
Justin Trudeau and the Alchemy of Irony
Canada’s prime minister won a skirmish but lost his credibility, which means that he has also lost legitimacy and will lose the war.
The Death of Muscular American Social Life
Will we be left with the worst of all worlds: moralism without morality, socialism without sociality, children without childhood, and humor without humor?
Prodigal Church, Prodigal Nation
The Christian church in America “must come to its senses” before we can expect the nation itself to return to be the light of liberty.
Five Rings or Fifth Columnists
When Olympic athletes can pick and choose country affiliations it undermines the nation’s political principles and reveals a more consequential disloyalty.
Scientism, Catholicism, and the God that Failed
With trust in once-respected institutions—including the Church—waning and social mores in flux, scientism fills the natural human need for some authoritative source of truth.
Why Ideology Is the Ancient Enemy of Civilization
In such ideological dystopias, eventually even the shelves empty, the currency becomes worthless, and the nation regresses into poverty and chaos. Is that the future we await?
When It Comes to Marxism, Bad Ideas Don’t Get Better with Age
It is time for the God and country loving, flag-waving, baseball playing, hot dog and apple pie eating, and Chevrolet driving crowd to get off their blessed assurance and get a little more involved.
Who Died and Made You Boss?
Many churches across America are saying, in effect, “God and what He says in the Bible isn’t the Ultimate Authority. It's the whims of current culture that reign supreme.
This Is No Time for Groveling
Ilya Shapiro apologized for his “poor choice of words” in a series of tweets about Joe Biden’s potential Supreme Court pick. Here’s what he should have said instead.
The Backdoor Gun Ban
We need new, independent, domestic end-to-end ammunition plants, and right away.
A House Aggrieved Cannot Stand
Our rulers stoke a civil conflict because they want to win it.