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Why Communism and Socialism Fail
The protests roiling our college campuses have provided yet another opportunity for the perennially disgruntled to call for the end of America's democratic form of government and system of free market capitalism, and to replace both with some collectivist pipe dream.
It is a searing indictment of American higher education that our students ...Read more
Protests and Policy as Porn
The pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protests have spread to university campuses across the country, just as the agitators hoped (and planned) for them to do. As was also expected, some of these protests have turned violent. A Jewish student was poked in the face with a flagpole at Yale University and hospitalized; another Jewish ...Read more
The Problem Is Academia
The explosion of violent and shockingly antisemitic protests on college campuses is just the latest in a series of self-inflicted black eyes for higher education in the United States. In March last year, a group of students at Stanford Law School shut down a talk by federal Judge Kyle Duncan, screaming vulgar epithets and refusing to allow him...Read more
Eroding the Electoral College Erodes Americans' Voting Rights
The structure of the American government was designed by the Founders to prevent raw majoritarianism: the three branches of government and their checks and balances, the allocation of power between the state and federal governments, constitutional limits on the federal government's power, the differing composition of the U.S. House of ...Read more
Stop Voting for Intentions; Vote for Results
California's $20/hour minimum wage for fast food workers went into effect this month, and the early results are negative. Companies affected by the law are laying off workers, putting off needed capital improvements and raising prices. Some are closing their doors altogether or opening new restaurants only in other states. Keep in mind that ...Read more
Onward, Christian Soldiers
As I often do over the Easter holiday, I watched a film that has the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ central to the story. This year, it was "Risen," a film about a Roman soldier named Clavius (played by Joseph Fiennes), an attache to Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea. The crucifixion of Christ has already taken place as...Read more
What's Wrong With America's 'Elites'?
It is becoming increasingly clear that some of America's most serious problems can be traced back to our colleges and universities -- or at least the ones educating the country's most powerful people.
The Vietnam War era aside, it has traditionally been uncommon for events at universities to make national headlines. Absent something ...Read more
The West's Descent Into Madness
If it is possible to watch a society -- an entire civilization -- go insane, we are watching that phenomenon in real time. Across all forms of media, the headlines bring fresh evidence daily.
Western civilization -- that aggregation of cultural, political, social and religious traditions that has formed the basis for European societies and ...Read more
Responding to Bari Weiss
For those of you who do not know her, Bari Weiss is the journalist who had the courage and intellectual honesty not only to leave her gig as an opinion writer at The New York Times in 2020 but to pen a public resignation letter that exposed the oppressive culture there that prompted her departure.
Weiss thereafter launched The Free Press, a ...Read more
What Jews and Christians Have in Common
The authors of a new book titled "White Rural Rage" appeared on MSNBC last week, accusing rural Americans of being the "most racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-gay" demographic, people who "don't believe in democracy" or "free speech" and (in keeping with the Left's latest slur) are likely to be "Christian nationalists." Former MSNBC ...Read more
The Left's Latest Attack on Christianity
In a paroxysm of panic about Americans' rejection of the Biden administration's policies of open borders, rampant crime, runaway inflation and profligate spending on foreign wars, the Left has decided that the real cause of the widespread dissatisfaction and demand for policies that place Americans first is "Christian nationalism."
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Getting Away With Murder
Last week, Russian political activist and dissident Alexei Navalny died in a Siberian prison camp, where he was serving a 30-year sentence for what most observers agree were specious, purely politically motivated convictions.
Navalny had been an opponent of Vladimir Putin, the country's current president, and one of Putin's most vehement ...Read more
Is Tucker Carlson Right About America's Cities?
American journalist Tucker Carlson was interviewed as part of the World Government Summit in Dubai earlier this week, and if people were outraged by his recent interview of Russian President Vladimir Putin, they were likely apoplectic after his remarks in Dubai about America's cities:
"[W]hat was radicalizing, very shocking and very ...Read more