The Left-Right Divide Is About Reality Itself
If half of this country cannot distinguish truth from falsehood, that is not a good sign for the nation's future. On that point, ironically, Left and Right can agree.
First Principles
The Source of the Media’s
Post-Truth Analysis
Our need to discern the truth is and will always be essential to us in the conduct of our daily lives and even for our survival. Reality doesn’t change whether we believe in it or not.
The Right Wing Is
Anti-Government Again
Instead of conservatives becoming government cheerleaders for a Republican in the White House, hostility to the Republican president from the deep state has fueled an even deeper and more thoroughgoing skepticism of government power among Trump’s supporters.
Bureaucratic Rule: By What Right?
The oft-repeated statement that America suffers from meritocracy is the opposite of the truth. Pretense of excellence, not excellence itself, is the ground on which the U.S. ruling class bases its claim to legitimacy.
A ‘Discussion-Free’ America
If you think this generation’s inquisitors will satisfy themselves with mere state censorship, job loss, and contract termination, think again. “Approved think” is already restricting social media and you may, at some point, lose your banking and credit card privileges for being declared officially “hateful.”
How We Colored Our Public Squares Red
We are our own totalitarians. We make the Puritans in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter look like free-thinkers. Who among us will be most passionate in surveillance?
Our Republic Is Under Attack from the Admirals and Generals
James Mattis and William McRaven’s comments reveal the anti-republican nature common to the modern military officer. Freedom-loving people should take note.
The Perils of Praetorianism
Do we really want to normalize the view that the military is the protector of republican government?
An Open Letter to Sergey Brin
Google's arrogance is such that a vast number of Americans worry that the major conduit of speech in the free world doesn't care about free speech.
A Better Guide than Reason
Reason, wrote John Locke, is man’s “only Star and compass.” It will bring those who but consult it to the table of amity, where they […]
History Both Repeats and Rhymes
When the opposition doesn’t care whether the scurrilous things he’s spreading about you are true, the odds are good that they just want you to have to deny them.
Of NeverChumps and Magaphobes
If he’s a younger voter, though, it’s likely the NeverChumper has never been a “chump” at all. He’s grown up in an educational environment openly hostile to him, and doesn’t remember a Left any milder or more civil than today’s.
A Constitution for Ambitious Men
This is what NeverTrump types still do not understand: Even when Trump voters are not fully satisfied with Trump’s policies, we rally to him when he is attacked by the establishment because his election was an expression of the will of the people, and his enemies express the will of a hostile ruling class.
How the Times’ 1619 Project Misses the Point
As Englishmen had become Americans, liberty and equality shifted from customs to rights, and slavery became a very peculiar institution indeed, a repellent anomaly in a world of freedom.
Is Our Democracy Worth It Anymore?
As our politics have become increasingly fractious, our politicians and political pundits have appealed more to the aesthetics of our country than to its ambitious and ennobling goals.
Why Libertarians Are Unwitting Enablers of Socialism
Libertarians have become pawns of the progressive Left in America, and in an ironic twist, both of them have been co-opted by globalist corporate interests. When everything is privatized, rationed and metered, corporate rent seekers gain new revenue streams.
Living in a Post-Truth World
The post-truth era promises to be a wild ride. In a post-truth world, a promise is meaningless . . . A post-truth person is free to swear on a Bible to uphold the Constitution and then set right to work subverting it.
Forgetting Our Story
The decades-long leftist project to undermine the story we Americans tell about ourselves literally destroys and replaces our culture with something vastly more dangerous.
Big Conservatism and the Moment of Decision
Will we have politics-as-conversation or politics-as-war? Those are the only choices.
Overhauling Libel Laws Will Only Hurt Conservatives
Love it or hate it, New York Times v. Sullivan benefits the Right.