Distinguishing Between American Tragedy and Farce
The self-abasement that now characterizes the American Left’s approach to understanding America is rooted in a failure to distinguish between tragedy and farce.
First Principles
The Frightening Road To Leftist Utopia
The utopian Left believes human nature can be conquered; that they can annihilate the old Tao—and create a new one, based on their emotions.
Remembering the Farming Way
We need to pause sometimes and remember who these dinosaurs were and what they have contributed. For a while longer, a few are still with us, a sort of collective keyhole through which we can look back into a now unremembered American past, whose codes and mores we simply abandoned—and to our great and present loss.
The Punishing Agenda of the Anti-Punishment Movement
Punishment is a public declaration of moral standards. It is an extension of natural law. Descend into the anti-incarceration activists’ amoral abyss, and you abolish the very fabric of our ethical tradition.
The Inertial States of America
Nothing unites us now, not religious faith, not cultural memory, not a common understanding of virtue, not the natural goodness of manhood and womanhood, not children, not the elderly, nothing. We do not seek “the naked bedrock of character and capacity,” because they are judgments against us.
Peace(makers) on Earth
Surely there are rabbis and pastors who might come together to arrange a sort of exchange program of qualified, background-checked, good-hearted men.
Why Conservatism, Inc. Is Powerless Against Socialism
The truth that socialism is bad does not excuse conservatives from having to come up with a plan for America’s future. The alternative to socialism still has to be appealing—it can’t just be “not socialism.”
Revealing the Real Cause of Deep State Corruption
America is threatened by a loss of its constitutional system. The threat does not come from the current occupant of the White House, but from those who would seek to expel him.
Two Fundamental Contradictions that Doom the Left
The fate of all humanity, not just that of America, depends on debunking these two fundamental premises of the Left, both of which are easily contradicted by facts.
The Lights of Hanukkah and Christmas
May the light deliver us from the darkness of pride, arrogance, and hate.
Agenda Moms and Child Martyrs
Like too many children today, Greta Thunberg has become a martyr for her parents’ cause.
How Christianity Transformed Political Life
The season of Advent anticipates not only Christmas Day but the return of Christ. Requiting that eternal, personal love for a fallen humanity is our ultimate earthly purpose.
The Death of Meritocracy
Call me whatever you like. I know who I am. Merit is the great equalizer.
We Must Not Ignore Christian Persecution
Editor’s note: The following are remarks delivered on November 26 to the 2nd International Conference on Christian Persecution in Budapest, Hungary. The mission of the […]
Leninism: The Highest Stage of Progressivism
As the talk of socialism becomes more widespread on the Left, particularly within Democratic party politics, and as anger at President Trump boils over, the advocacy of political scientists will become even clearer: first, Progressivism, then socialism, and ultimately, Leninism.
The Foundations of the ‘Administrative/Deep State’
Reversing the administrative state will take a major effort. Recognizing that it exists and that it is not merely unconstitutional but in fact anti-constitutional is at least a beginning.
President Trump Did the Right Thing with the Dreamers.
Will the Supreme Court?
Too often the courts have deferred to executive branch officials, acting through the administrative state—or “the swamp,” as President Trump likes to call it. That may be about to change.
Praetorianism and
the ‘Deep State’
Article II gives the president sweeping powers to conduct foreign affairs and negotiate with leaders of other nations. It does not grant any such power to unelected bureaucrats to act in ways that demonstrate they approve or disapprove of foreign policy—even when they are "deeply troubled" by it.
Hate Speech Laws Do Not Protect Democracy—They Threaten It
The First Amendment protects “hate speech.” So why do so many powerful figures want to criminalize this protected speech? Because this supposed menace threatens their […]
From Bullets to Ballots, and Back to Bullets?
We are in the midst of an exciting time—the revolution of 2016, as it may be known in future generations. Once again we see the clash of two ideas of America as presented in its leading political parties.