The World is Your Oatmeal
When Lisa De Pasquale first informed me she was writing a new book about the Left, I was concerned for her mental health. Fortunately for […]
Free Speech
Out with the ‘Ins’! In with the ‘Outs’!
It was a kick-in-the-gut moment for a lot of conservatives, and for a lot of normal people who just wanted some non-political space left in […]
Quick! Read This Article Before It’s Banned*!
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 […]
Revolutions Make Strange Bedfellows
Hugh Hefner, the legendary founder of Playboy, died this week at the age of 91, proving once-and-for-all the adage that “only the good die young.” […]
Don’t Blame the Kneelers—Blame Those Who Brainwashed Them
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 […]
What Did the Founders Think about Freedom of Speech?
The natural right of an individual to speak freely has been under assault by the Left for decades. With the election of Donald Trump, the […]
Why I Won’t Give $10 to Harvard
My 30th Harvard College reunion is in October. I plan to attend to see good friends and share great memories. Harvard asked for a donation. […]
Ben in Berkeley Scolds the Poor
Democracy is still new to conservatives in certain ways. Even so, it’s strange for a democratic people to see full-throated moralism denouncing the poor from […]
Liberal Bullies
Forty-thousand versus 25. Those were the relative numbers of people that showed up in Boston last month for a free speech rally and its counter-protest. […]
Antifa Activists Are Enemies of America
Fascism is indefensible. Antifa is also indefensible. Both are antithetical to civil society and need to be put down decisively. Street violence in Berkeley last […]
Virtual Virtue
It is not healthy for a society to live two lives that are antithetical, as America has been doing in recent decades. Disillusionment with government […]
The Un-P.C. Reason for Labor Day
Ah, Labor Day! For many, this national holiday is chiefly a bittersweet celebratory marker: a line in the sand (preferably at some winsome beach) between […]
Media Normalizes Political Violence by Mainstreaming Antifa
Since February’s violence in Berkeley, which stopped a scheduled speech on campus by Milo Yiannopoulos, the media and the political Left’s relationship with Antifa has […]
Republicans Cower in Charlottesville’s Aftermath
Last month’s events in Charlottesville have given our Republican elected officials an excellent opportunity to educate the public on the violence of the hard Left […]
Inebriates of Virtue
At Yale, where censorship never sleeps, the Committee of Public Safety—no, wait, that was Robespierre’s plaything. Yale’s new bureaucracy is called the “Committee on Art […]
The Proverbs of Pelosi
In her attempt to deny the free speech rights of a group called “Patriot Prayer,” Nancy Pelosi argued that the group should not be granted a permit […]
While They Rage, Trump Builds
What’s the highest pleasure known to man? Christian theologians talk about the visio beatifica, the “beatific vision” of God. Alas, that communion is granted to […]
The Kristol Crackup
In a Venn diagram of NeverTrump conservatives and anti-Trump liberals, a photo of Bill Kristol would appropriately fill the growing intersection of the two. Like […]
Who Was Really at Fault in Charlottesville?
Almost everything about the Charlottesville riot was disgraceful except the conduct of the president. The move to take down the statue of General Robert E. […]
President Trump Was Right the First Time
President Trump was roundly criticized over the weekend for failing to call out neo-nazis and the Ku Klux Klan by name in his first statement […]