Why Are the Western Middle Classes So Angry?
What is going on with the unending Brexit drama, the aftershocks of Donald Trump’s election and the “yellow vests” protests in France? What drives the […]
Identity Politics
Resisting the Politics of Victimhood
We are a self-contradictory people. In our private lives, we affirm, or at least speak as if we affirm, the virtues of personal responsibility, self-reliance, […]
Oberlin’s Comeuppance
As I write these words, a jury in Ohio is about to decide whether an $11 million verdict against Oberlin College, for libel and tortious […]
K-12 Education Has Become Progressive Sunday School
As an adolescent, just beginning my education as a Catholic, I had Catechism classes. There, for usually an hour, we learned some of the basic […]
Paying Off the Many, At the Expense of the Middle
Fifteen states have voted to recognize the National Popular Vote (NPV), a proposed interstate compact that pledges the electoral votes of every state to the […]
2020 Has Echoes of 1996 for the Opposition Party
The Democrats have assembled a field of candidates for 2020 as large as it is unimpressive. From the slick Robert “Beto” O’Rourke and the media […]
The 2020 News Cycle Will Look Very Different
The Russia collusion narrative and associated Robert Mueller hysteria are all but over. Mueller’s obstruction of justice narrative involving the non-crime of collusion is ending, […]
Bizarre Democratic Politics in the D.C. Suburbs
In the Democratic primary race for commonwealth attorney in Arlington, Virginia, the prevailing principle seems to be that no good deed goes unpunished. The moderate, […]
The Entitled Uninvited
On a Sunday afternoon in May, Etta Nugent found Marco Cobos, a Mexican national, at her doorstep in Houston after his truck had broken down […]
Only a Razor
The marketing geniuses at Gillette have discovered a way to pander even more to the woke Left. Gillette launched its first salvo against “toxic masculinity” […]
Calling Out Anti-Semitism Isn’t ‘Islamophobic’
Virginia State Delegate Ibraheem Samirah is the poster child for a new crop of Democratic politicians. He’s young, charismatic, and very progressive, with a history […]
Cure for America’s Socialist Mania: Prosperity
America, President Donald Trump vowed during his State of the Union in February, “will never be a socialist country.” Well, we have some good news […]
Reparations and Diversity Are Not the Path to Equality
The revival of reparations talk signals an opportunity for a serious discussion of the revival of republican self-government or strong citizenship. Instead, we get the […]
A Mighty Fortress is Our Victimhood
The College Board last week announced a plan to add an “adversity score” to its Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). Justifying the move, College Board President […]
Progressives Eating Their Own
To be genuinely offended becomes more difficult in an age when every daily flutter of news presents a new outrage. Social media vibrates with a […]
The Great Green Media Machine
Remember Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony? By now, it feels like ages ago. At the time, the media hyped what the president’s former attorney had to […]
The Modern Bonfire of the Vanities
Five centuries ago, in Renaissance Florence, the Dominican priest Girolamo Savonarola, in his quest to purge Florence of all “immoral” works of art, started what […]
Democrats Look at South Africa, and They Like What They See
Even in the wake of its latest free election, held on May 8, South Africa is not, on the face of it, a model of […]
The Rantings of Rashida
For once, I find myself agreeing with the contemptible Rashida Tlaib, the freshman Democratic representative from Michigan. Her vile comment that she gets a “calming […]
Adding a Citizenship Question to the U.S. Census Could Affect Future Elections. So?
Citizenship matters. Or, at least it used to. The question of who is a citizen and who is not is at the foundation of what […]