Sin City Delights in Sins Distracting From Its Own
All things hidden will come to light, and with what measure we measure, so shall it be measured out to us.
Civic Culture
Rising Above Sentimentality
Clues in America’s art of the past give us unsentimental insights into the unsentimental people we used to be.
America and The Dying Citizen
Freedom requires constant reinvestment in and replenishment of a nation’s traditions and ideals.
And Jews Will Still Vote Democrat
Why can a Democratic vice president praise a student who just told her that Israel commits ethnic genocide -- and have it mean nothing to most American Jews?
Why America Needs Slavic Joy, or How to Be an Honest Optimist
Laughter and comedy represent the inner freedom that we all have, and that no totalitarian regime can touch and stain.
Who Would Hide a Jew if Nazis Took Over America?
We have seen unquestioning obedience to authority. People who obey irrational orders and despise those who do not are precisely the type of people who didn't hide Jews.
How It Might End, Act I
It seems to be that we have alarm bells going off all around us. The oddity is that so few people seem to hear them.
Birth Rates, Immigration, and National Identity
There are two ways to deal with global population trends; both have problems.
Un-Lockeing the American Idea
We need to rediscover the vocabulary of the founders if we are to make a success of a new vocabulary for a new Right.
Central and Eastern Europe Help Show the Path Forward
As the post-Trump American Right continues to cohere and slowly finds itself, it should look to the likes of modern-day Poland and Hungary for some concrete pointers.
A Hard But Simple Way to Detoxify American Politics
Unless Americans can learn to give up our resentments, we will continue to indulge our compulsive, addictive rage, which eventually will destroy us.
One Way To Fix Plummeting Birthrates: Stop Bashing America
There are innumerable avenues for noneconomic policy to help lay the foundations for a possible new baby boom. Here's an easy one.
The Politics of Home
By clarifying who is conserving places, we clarify which side has the whole community at heart.
Elbow Bumping Pols Promote Further Civic Rot
If handshakes were the sign of the recognition of civic friendship, the replacements suggest both contention between opposing parties and increasing atomization.
Matilda Cuomo: Your Sons Are Scostumati!
Andrew and Chris Cuomo are an embarrassment to Italian-Americans.
The Hard Road
To save the republic, its citizens are going to have to do the work. We will not win back our freedom by passively awaiting the arrival of a white knight.
Embracing the Divine
That we begin now, this springtime, to embrace the divine in our lives more fully, more resolutely, and more gratefully than ever, is an Easter and Passover prayer for all of us.
The Duty to Dissent
Keep the faith with all throughout the ages who have taken heart from a dissenter who, for refusing to submit to a ruling elite’s cancel culture, was condemned and crucified.
The Real Climate Crisis: A New Ice Age from the Accumulation of Snowflakes
There should be a Nobel Prize in Medicine to whoever can devise an elixir for growing thicker skin that can be administered before school age.
Sunk Cost Fallacies, Politicians, and the Nigerian Prince Scam
Even when all evidence clearly shows the big payday isn’t ever going to come, people still often send more and more money to the scammers. Our politics is much the same.