Beneath all the sanctimony about Trump’s “crimes,” the left knows, and we know, that his conviction is an exercise of power, not justice.
Year: 2024
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Who You Talkin’ To, Robert De Niro?
The actor’s self-indulgent rant in New York is the latest example of the all-too-human temptation to garner admiration through performative outrage.
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Post-Trump Verdict, Will the American Right Finally Wake Up?
It has never been more incumbent upon the right to finally wake up and realize what is going on right now in this once-great nation.
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The Place Beyond the Ruins
Things are bound to get much worse in America before and if they get better. That is why we all need our “Two-Hearted River” beyond the ruins.
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Democrats Demand Justice Alito Control His Wife
There’s a delicious irony in the leftist media’s calls for Justice Samuel Alito to control his wife’s political expression.
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Trump Criminal Trial: Even Trump-Hating Analysts Scratch Their Heads
In their analysis of the trial of Donald Trump in New York, liberal skeptics inadvertently explain why so many believe that Trump faces persecution by a two-tiered justice system.
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It Is Up to Us to Begin the End of Our Culture’s Insanity
The typhoon causing our present-day cultural and political ruination was a storm gathering strength for decades. It will take at least as many decades to restore America as were required for its destruction.
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The Cop-Murdering Extremist Who Inspires Pro-Palestinian Campus Radicals
The celebration of Wesley Cook, aka “Mumia Abu-Jamal,” a cop-killing thug and member of a lawless cult of child abusers and anti-social criminals, by today’s campus radicals is telling.
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Biden’s All-of-Government Vote-Buying Scheme
A decade after Barack Obama pioneered it, Joe Biden is tasking every agency and department of the federal government to promote voter engagement.
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How I Single-Handedly Spiked a Hollywood Hit Job
Think one pissed-off conservative can’t take on leftist Hollywood and win? Read on.
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The Anti-White Sentiment Underlying Left-Wing Anti-Semitism
The anti-white left views the struggle of Hamas as a continuation of the war against Western colonialism. They are never going to make common cause with Jews who defend the West.
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The Free-Market Populism of Javier Milei
Just as some businessmen who’ve lost their subsidies still back Milei, populist voters in the United States aren’t necessarily looking for handouts. They want a fair shake, not a New Deal.
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Transhumanism and the Cure for Suffering
Are there evolutionary purposes to human suffering? And, if so, what might these tell us about how to alleviate it through artificial intelligence and whether we should?
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Reflecting American Dreams and American Nightmares
Elia Kazan’s “A Face in the Crowd” (1957) takes the audience along for a ride that ends up in front of a mirror.
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Democrats Are Stuck with Joe Biden as Their Presidential Nominee
Democrats have no choice but to take a deep breath, pray to the deity they probably don't believe in, and roll the dice with their impotent current ticket.
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The Two Surest Signs of the Totalitarian Impulse
Two of the truest marks of a totalitarian regime are its claim to know your thoughts better than you do, and its demand for the coercive power to “correct” your thought.
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Biden’s Black Lies Matter
Joe Biden’s “pep talk” to the graduating students at the historically black Morehouse College was full of the left’s usual uninspiring lies.
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Stop the Migrant Invasion
The Left insists migration is a humanitarian crisis. Wrong. It’s a lawless invasion. Europeans are fighting back. Americans should, too.
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The Spring of the West’s Disorder
A series of unfortunate events this spring have revealed a West that does not respect itself and, therefore, cannot command the respect of others.
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Mass Illegal Migration Makes Us Sicker, Not Stronger
The Biden administration’s chaotic, illegal approach to immigration prioritizes importation of people with questionable health records over the well-being of U.S. citizens.
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Witch Hunt at the New York Philharmonic Draws in Veteran Trump Hunter
U.S. federal judge Barbara S. Jones is among those engaged in an outrageous and unrelenting pursuit of two musicians formerly with the orchestra for sexual assault allegations. The evidence is dodgy but the determination to punish them is stronger than ever.
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Limits and Hope: Against the Anti-Tragedy Agenda of the Left
Once the right allowed the left to frame politics as the avoidance of tragedy, they lost the game. We’d do well to reconsider what Christopher Lasch called the “limits and hope” of politics.
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Trump’s Sun Belt Hopes and Rust Belt Needs
Trump should do everything he can to win the Sun Belt, and black and Hispanic voters, away from Biden. But his priority must be to win back the Rust Belt states and white voters he lost in 2020.
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Harrison Butker Boots This One Out of the Stadium
The outraged reaction to the Kansas City Chiefs’ kicker’s speech on the “pervasiveness of disorder” exposes how people can’t handle the truth about American culture.
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Meme World Syndrome
The feedback loop of our very online “discourse” knows no end and it is rendering our society insane.
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Rejecting Truth, Justice, and the American Way
The abandonment of common-sense realism destroyed our institutions of higher learning a long time ago. It now threatens to destroy the nation itself.
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My Internet Friends
The less obvious part of the phenomenon of online friendships is that the communities created are often much more than common interest spaces.
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Will Democrats Pay a Price for Their Cynical, Crumbling Lawfare Strategy?
The Democrats’ strategy is failing. But it is up to the American people to make them pay for it.
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Kinkade Konservatism Reacts to Royal Portraits
Insofar as these portraits display Charles and Camilla as they really are, they are good art. But let’s not lie to ourselves about what they are saying about the British monarchy and our times.
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Another Big Lie: Liberals Are More ‘Caring’ Than Conservatives
Conservatives are more generous with their money, and it’s not even close.
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Is Common Sense Realism Making a Comeback?
The real battle being fought in America today is not between the right and the left. It is a battle between common sense and nonsense.
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Shafik and Other College Presidents Have Mission Confusion
American colleges and universities have long been considered tops in the world, but this preeminence won’t last if they operate as mere indoctrination factories, turning out social activists instead of knowledgeable, independent thinkers.
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American Genius: Carver Skateboards, Skateparks, and Resisting the Joy Killers
Plans to build a skatepark in Brooklyn offer a laudable public works improvement to the city but are still not my style. The freewheeling street surfing possible on a Carver skateboard, however, is as American as it gets.
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Abolishing Diversity Statements Is an Empty Gesture at MIT
Until all aspects of DEI are abolished from universities, public gestures like eliminating this or that aspect of the ideology are mostly empty publicity stunts designed to relieve pressure from embattled administrators.
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Michael Cohen Cannot Save Alvin Bragg’s Absurd Case
Bragg’s case against Donald Trump is a two-legged stool, unable to stand on its own merits. His attempt to shoehorn in testimony from Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen is absurd and a sign of desperation.
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What Trump Sees in Doug Burgum
Trump’s VP contest isn’t really about the contestants; it’s about investing the audience in the drama of choosing and the man making the choice. Burgum is just plausible enough to extend that drama.
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American Women Don’t Need a ‘Momala’s Day’
The cringeworthy appearance of Kamala Harris on “The Drew Barrymore Show,” highlights the low regard in which the Biden administration holds both women and motherhood.
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The Making of a Banana Republic
Now that the Rubicon has been crossed and we have entered a world in which politicians attempt to not merely defeat their opposition at the ballot box but also prosecute and incarcerate them, there is no going back.
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The Imperfect Nostalgia of ‘Unfrosted’
Jerry Seinfeld’s otherwise genius combination of childhood nostalgia and comedy is marred by a lack of political temperance that deflates the experience for at least half the audience.
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Packers QB Aaron Rodgers vs. the White Coat Supremacy of Dr. Anthony Fauci
As the football standout has learned in his confrontation with the medical establishment, the struggle against white coat supremacy is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
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The Loud, Shameful Haitian Migrant-Whipping Hoax Dies Quietly
After five border patrol agents had their lives turned upside down in a sickening, agenda-fueled hoax, with their bosses were leading the charge, the government now quietly seeks to memory-hole the incident by giving one of them an award.
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MSNBC Host: Donald Trump, Like Richard Nixon, Is Racist
Trump and Nixon promoted policies that disproportionately benefitted blacks, but this doesn’t stop Democrats from promulgating the fiction that Republicans are racists.
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Press Cowards’ Hypocritical Lament Over Media’s Lack of ‘Balls’ and ‘Swagger’
Mainstream press critics whine about the demise of journalism’s good ole days, while carefully avoiding writing anything that would offend their paymasters.
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Suicide Permitted
In coming to grips with why suicide and suicidal ideation have become so widespread in the West, we tend to overlook one central fact: We no longer consider life sacred.
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Colleges Side With Radicals, Their Students Be Damned
The public knows what they are seeing on campuses is not freedom of expression—a sacred American right—but lawlessness and dangerous disorder.
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Biden, Trump, and the False God of Democracy
Conservatives would do well to remember that a political system of democratic leveling will always find new depths of evil, and fresh bodies to swell its ranks.
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FBI Bungling May Collapse Mar-a-Lago Case Against Trump
The government’s evidence about what it found during its raid on Mar-a-Lago may be contaminated and the case seems ready to implode.
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The Vietnam Era Never Ended for Biden’s Party
The Democratic party only has papered over its contradictions ever since 1968. Today’s campus protests have ripped off the wrapper, and they’re forcing on Biden a choice he can’t, or won’t, make.
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Columbia University’s Commencement Cowardice
Columbia’s decision to cancel its 2024 general commencement is a capitulation to all the worst elements of campus and global radicalism.
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Delusion Is Killing the American Republic
More Americans are mentally ill than ever before. It’s no wonder we are seeing signs of it in our politics.