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 […]
Second Amendment
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 […]
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 […]
What Frightens the Left Most? The Constitution
As we’ve long since learned, the Left always tells us what they fear most, by reacting to political developments or policy proposals like scalded vipers, […]
Did John Paul Stevens Lie About the Second Amendment?
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who retired from the court in 2010, was back in the news this week, attempting to rewrite the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Reject the ‘March for Our Lives’
The March for Our Lives was nothing more than political theater. Young, would-be social activists and their handlers seized upon the trauma of our society […]
School Walkout Was a Muppets Revival
One of the great childhood memories for any member of Generation X is “The Muppet Show.” Popular in the late 1970s and early ’80s, the […]
Safety is Not the Reason Democrats Are Pushing Gun Control
In his highly acclaimed book on the Left’s Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, Twelve Who Ruled, the late Yale historian Robert Roswell Palmer […]
Full Semi-Auto Activism: An Explainer
Our forefathers obviously had a very different idea of activism than we have today; it was a relatively slow process, to load an 18th-century activist […]
Activists Stand on the Dead to Reach Young Voters
Google “National School Walkout” and peruse the results. You will find a variety of sympathy-inspiring headlines and pictures: students weeping, holding impassioned signs, begging anyone […]
Motor City Strikes Again: ‘Stop the Killer Cars!’
Leave it to the Regressive Left to put a pothole on the Motor City’s road to renewal. After decades of struggling, including becoming America’s largest […]
The Mental Health Punt
While Hillary Clinton unironically titled her biography Hard Choices, it is exceedingly rare for politicians to make them. More often, we are offered alluring and […]
Utopia, Pacifism, and Guns
Dennis Prager in a recent column examines the reasons the Left offers for derisively rejecting proposals to improve school safety by permitting teachers with firearms […]
Donald Trump on Love and Justice
One of the most revealing moments of Donald Trump’s presidency so far went completely unnoted. “We all learned a lot,” he said following his recent […]
Parkland, Populism, and a Doomed Generation
Democracy dies in darkness, but truth dies in broad daylight in a culture that no longer values the rule of law and the primacy of […]
Forget Gun Control: Bring Back Mental Hospitals
After another inexplicable act of violence in Parkland Florida claimed 17 lives, the usual chorus (and some of the not so usual chorus) is screaming […]
This is CNN: The Children’s News Network
Every child knows intuitively that losing is not fun. Toddlers will steal a coveted toy right from the hands of an unwitting playmate in the […]
When Seconds Count, Police Under No Legal Obligation To Act
As with many hot-button issues, Americans are sharply divided over Second Amendment rights. Liberals argue that only trained police officers should be armed and citizens […]