Citizenship and the Nation-State
Without the natural right principles of the founding, the nation has no future but dissolution and anarchy.
Weekend Long Read
The Battle for California Is the Battle for America
The Golden State’s progressive feudalists have one fatal weakness: They are wrong. The fundamental premises they use to justify their actions are flawed.
Staying to the Left of Boom by Going High
For 20 years, the United States has engaged in a series of policy failures in space that weakened our presence there and inspired our rivals. We need a total reassessment of U.S. space policy.
Anti-Americanism, Then and Now
The habit of liberal accommodation has precipitated a crisis in what one used to be able to call, without apology, manly self-confidence.
How Trump’s Foreign Policy Fits Within the American Tradition
Critics of the president's first term have focused excessively on his rhetoric instead of his actions. A review of actual foreign policy actions in the context of American history allows a more balanced perspective.
A Tyranny Perpetual and Universal?
Is the leftist dream now within reach? If President Trump loses, we will find out.
Only Muscular Civic Nationalism Can Save America
America’s destiny can be to remain a leader and an example to the world, while caring for its own citizens in a way that doesn’t alienate the world, but inspires other nations to do the same.
Minute 14 for Robin DiAngelo
It’s minute 14 for Robin DiAngelo, and the clock is ticking. Perhaps it’s time for her to bank those royalties, cash those speaker-fee checks, and fade out of the public consciousness.
Orson Welles: American Maverick
Through his work, Welles revelled in the game of concealment and illumination but, in the end, reveals it to be more than just a silly game.
Weapons of Mass Collusion
For two years, as Robert Mueller tried and failed to find evidence of a criminal conspiracy, NeverTrump Republicans tended to the right flank of the Trump-Russia collusion front. But their role in pushing the hoax went much deeper.
Identity Socialism
Herbert Marcuse’s toxic legacy.
A New Age of Feudalism for the Working Class?
If too many of the American working class lack any hope of improving their condition, we could face dangerous upheaval in the near future.
The Big Red Fake News Machine
Independent media outlets offer an important counterbalance to prevailing mainstream media now compromised by corporate conflicts of interest. But the “independent” label is often contrived as foreign interests and even foreign governments drive the agenda. The Real News Network is one example.
The Revolt Against the American Order
Progressive theorists, statesmen, and theologians embraced a notion that material and spiritual fulfillment can be found in and through the good graces of the state. It represented, in theory and practice, a stunning transformation of American politics, morality, and constitutionalism.
The Monstrous Lie Behind CrowdStrike
There’s a simple explanation for the Democratic National Committee’s unwillingness to let outsiders have a peek at evidence its servers were infiltrated by the Russians in 2016: There isn’t any. The Russian hacking that’s caused so much division and turmoil at home and abroad never really happened. It was all a ruse.
Wokeness, Free Speech, and the Role of Education
Conservatives have rightly lamented the assault on free speech that is such a conspicuous and disfiguring reality of life in America today. But that loss only achieves its true significance in the context of a more fundamental erosion: the erosion of a shared political consensus that gives life to “We, the People.”
Showdown at Fort Miamis
Before America could be great, it first had to secure its territory, fend off enemies foreign and domestic, and maintain an unsteady peace with the most powerful empire on Earth. Here is the forgotten story of how George Washington and his administration navigated perilous diplomatic waters in the nation’s earliest days.
The Undifferentiated Human Matter of Replacism
Absent intact and confident national Western cultures who know where they came from and who they are, the immigrant waves that retain the most confidence in their collective identity will overwhelm those cultures that do not. And that may not end well for anyone or anything, including the Davos-cracy, including modernity itself.
Davos: Peering Behind the Elite Curiosity Curtain
At Davos, investment dollars flew like sand in the desert wind. The Chinese wanted factories, and they lined up from Nortel to Motorola just to shake hands. Big Pharma met and colluded on patents and pricing. Want to sell airplanes? Autos? You name it, even armaments. It was a global bazaar of high-altitude wheeling and dealing with high price tags.
There Are Great Books
All lists measuring greatness are subject to reconsideration—the truly greats remain on the list with the passing of centuries.