The Hollowness of the Conservative Intellectual Elite
The rise of Donald Trump not only highlights the fecklessness of the political class but also the blindness of the conservative intellectual elite. Conservatism Inc., […]
The rise of Donald Trump not only highlights the fecklessness of the political class but also the blindness of the conservative intellectual elite. Conservatism Inc., […]
You can’t have my country. You cannot take away anything that makes her her. She has stood proudly head and shoulders above others ever since […]
Celebrities, academics, and journalists have publicly threatened or imagined decapitating Donald Trump, blowing him up in the White House, shooting him, hanging him, clubbing him, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Once upon a time, in the golden age of yore, colleges and universities sprang up in our great republic. There was discussion about how best […]
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 […]
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 […]
I was a little concerned when Donald Trump won. I didn’t believe the “fake news” that Trump was racist─sure, his father was arrested at a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
It’s the same, every year. If our most cherished holidays aren’t denigrated falsely as pagan anachronisms, they’re indicted as examples of naked consumerism. As Valentine’s […]
Civil rights historian Abigail Thernstrom once spoke of the American campus as “an island of repression in a sea of freedom.” That was in 1989. […]
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 […]
The recent events at Middlebury College should have been a jolting reminder that all is not well in our polarized culture or, especially, in our institutions […]