Meowing Media Fuel Mass Delusion of Russian Collusion
Every mass delusion has a beginning. One day in the Middle Ages, a French nun began meowing. Other nuns soon joined in. Soon, all the […]
Free Speech
American Pravda Wins Pulitzer
The New York Times just won a Pulitzer Prize for “public service.” I’ve never met this “public” to whom the New York Times has provided […]
How Do We Say the Things We Cannot Say?
Society becomes polarized and impoverished when obvious truths are denied. To address the ensuing malaise, government expands. When government expands, government unions flourish. And there […]
Zuckerberg’s A.I. Hope is a Free Speech Nightmare
The most terrifying thing about Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance on Tuesday before a special joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees wasn’t anything he […]
No Algorithm for the Human Soul
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week faced questions from powerful committees in both houses of Congress on the subject of how the social […]
The Creeping and Creepy March of the Progressive Totalitarian Impulse
As a foreigner living in the United Kingdom, the first thought that occurred to me watching “The Death of Stalin” last month was how bleak and […]
The Hardening of Leftist Contempt
Last week, as former National Review writer Kevin D. Williamson was defenestrated abruptly from his brand-new post as token “conservative” columnist for the Atlantic over […]
Twitter’s Jack Likes Article Vowing War on Republicans. Bring It
When two California progressives write a sophomoric think piece about how to dispense with the country’s ruling political party, most sensible people don’t take it […]
Whatever the Left Touches, It Ruins
The only way to save Western civilization is to convince more people that leftism—not liberalism—is a nihilistic force. Quite literally, whatever the Left touches it […]
A Taxonomy of Conservatives: The Libertarian
His hoodied silhouette emerges from a cloud of white vapor with a few lackadaisical and interspersed smoke rings. With a copy of Atlas Shrugged in […]
Why Kevin Williamson Matters
Any rational person’s list of the most intelligent and pungent columnists now writing will perforce include the name Kevin Williamson, late of National Review and, […]
Anti-Trump Appeasers on the Right Empower the Mob
Before I get into the firing of Kevin Williamson, let me say this: Williamson is a talented, unique, and compelling writer. I have complimented his […]
Trump Is Right to Fear Amazon
President Trump’s feud with the shopping giant Amazon is both welcome and overdue. Welcome, because Amazon’s ambitions extend well beyond the monopoly power that Trump […]
Emma González Makes an Absurd Ideological Saint
Today our media thrives on drama and spectacle. The more “tragic” or “comedic” the event, the better. When great tragedy or comedy can serve an […]
Fahrenheit 451 Updated
What took them so long? That was our first question when we heard the latest news about the distinguished University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy […]
Stone Age Thinking
Reason is a fragile thing. Like a tiny, dainty woodland sprite, it can be stomped into a crushed, broken ruin by the mighty foot of […]
The Real ‘Resistance’ Emerges as the Hollywood Left Founders
Four pillars of the American Left together explain its stranglehold on our culture: the Democratic Party, academia, the media, and Hollywood. The Democrats are a […]
Adult Supervision: Advice from the Founders
Impassioned protests following the mass shooting at a Florida high school culminated over the weekend with marches on Washington, D.C., and other cities. To properly evaluate […]
Just Log Off
Facebook’s latest public-relations nightmare increasingly looks likely (and finally) to be the proximate cause of regulation or, at least, interrogation of the company for its […]
Marching Madness
In case you weren’t around for the radical tomfoolery in the 1960s, you’re now seeing the sequel. This time, however, with the ubiquity of social […]