Mr. Howting is right to recognize the crisis of masculinity in the Church. But, the problem isn’t that the red-pill influencers are speaking the truth, its that Christians are pussyfooting around Church teaching.
Year: 2024
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The Problem With “Manning-Up”
Masculinity gurus have only one solution to the scourge of feminism: men manning-up. This is what I call "the other side of feminism."
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War in Ukraine, Two Years Later
The war in Ukraine reflects an ongoing revolution in military affairs that started two decades ago but which needed a major conflict to become fully apparent. To put it in a nutshell, the battlefield pendulum has swung in favor of defense
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America Can Be Great Again
America's crowning achievement was the moon landing. But, since 1972, our nation's priorities have shifted from moon missions to diversity, equity, and inclusion. It doesn't have to be this way.
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The Death of Laken Riley: A Case of Res Ipsa Loquitur
Laken Riley’s death was the product of deliberate policy choices that delivered predictable results with the precision of a Swiss watch.
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The Struggling Journalist Ruse
Taki, by posing as a starving journalist, deceives an immanent novelist into granting an interview.
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To Complain or Not to Complain
Now more than ever, Americans need to recognize the difference between childish whining, which should never be indulged, and the necessary kind of complaining that’s required of citizens when something is evil or unjust.
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Agatha Christie’s Crime Canon Has Murder Mystery Staying Power
It seems unlikely that there will ever be another Agatha Christie. But it’s not from want of trying.
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Go Touch Some Grass
Note to the hyper-online: Sometimes a so-called conspiracy theory is just an actual conspiracy theory.
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Border Insecurity is Election Interference
In what amounts to election interference and dilution of the franchise for citizens, sanctuary communities are allowing and even encouraging participation of noncitizens in their local and municipal elections. Citizens need to speak out now before it’s too late.
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MSNBC: One Man’s ‘Election Denier’ Is Another Man’s TV Host
At MSNBC Ronna McDaniel is out and Al Sharpton in. One man’s “election denier” is another man’s media host.
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Indelible in the Hippocampus Is the Perjury
Christine Blasey Ford’s Kavanaugh hoax put both the justice and Mark Judge through the mill. We owe Judge a chance to try to rebuild his life.
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The Sad Catastrophe of the Francis Scott Key Bridge
Signs of imperial decline have become common in the U.S.. That Baltimore’s collapsed bridge takes its name from the author of our national anthem is sadly poetic.
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Beware of Squatters
Favoring intruders over owners constitutes a "taking" that violates the Fifth Amendment, which says government cannot impinge on your right to your property. But squatters are turning up across the country anyway.
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The Twilight of the Republican ‘McLeadership’
The Trump team is steadily purging the Republican leadership of holdovers from past decades. The departure of McCarthy, McDaniel, and McConnell is part of exorcising the legacy of a more important “Mc” whose influence is still felt in the U.S. Senate: John McCain.
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Trump Hunts for a VP Close to Home
There’s more than one way the GOP could wind up with a New York-Florida ticket this November.
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Trump Is Right: The Left Wants a Bloodbath
No one has yet explained how Trump would end “democracy,” but as usual for the left, it seems to be a case of projection.
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Happiness in Chernobyl
The lives of the babushkas in Chernobyl are evidence that God exists everywhere, and that while destruction can often reign supreme, creation, however small, affirms our propensity for the good.
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The Government Needs Censorship Because Nobody Trusts It to Tell the Truth
Americans have come to see the government as a purveyor of misinformation, not a trusted speech referee. A case now before the Supreme Court reinforces that perception.
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Grounds for Suspicion
Republican voters have every right to assume bad faith from Democrats and their vote-counters, who have unscrupulously tried to increase their party’s power while behaving unethically toward electoral opponents.
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Vice President J.D. Vance
If Trump really wants to hit a home run, and if he wants to pick the man most in touch with this American moment, then it has to be J.D. Vance.
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My Kavanaugh Hearing Nightmare and ‘Oprah Moment’ on Fox
One thing I learned from my ordeal in the limelight of the Brett Kavanaugh hearings and Christine Blasey Ford’s accusations is that the truth is always more complicated than the narrative.
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Botox Blasey Ford
Christine Blasey Ford is out with a memoir no one asked for about her experience testifying against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Her unconvincing story remains the same, but her face appears to be the beneficiary of her substantial cash windfalls.
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Ukraine and the Daunting, Haunting Rites of Spring
Events in Ukraine cannot help but remind observers of the haunting events of the spring of 1914.
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New York Doomed to Be Migrant Central—Other Cities Take Note
Only New York has a "right to shelter," and it makes the city the top destination for migrants.
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West Point Gives in to Creeping Liberalism
By abandoning its traditional motto of “Duty, Honor, Country,” West Point has given into the liberalizing trend within American society. As Samuel Huntington warned, to remain effective a military must maintain an ethos distinct from the liberal society it defends.
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Princess Kate and Democracy’s Discontents
The tabloid interest in the princess’s health, is also punctuated by genuine sympathy on the part of many Brits, who see the royal family as the nation's family, too. But that's not how it should be with our elected leaders.
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How Democracy Dies in Germany
German police and teachers harassed a 16-year-old schoolgirl for posting a harmless video featuring the Smurfs and about a conservative political in that country. In Germany, left-wing thought-control has replaced freedom of speech.
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The Path to Victory for Trump
Trump’s best chance in 2024 is to ignore the noise and prove, contrary to the smear campaigns, that he is the superior candidate in terms of competence, stability, and sanity.
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The Illusion of Privacy
We can’t live in the past, but we should minimize our overexposure to online technology.
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The World Cannot Afford an Unserious America
The world, and U.S. citizens in particular, need a serious America. But thanks to our government’s refusal to secure our border, the idea of America being a serious country is a relic of a bygone era.
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Is Laken Riley’s Life Worth Less Than George Floyd’s?
The issue facing Biden and his party is not whether to call Ibarra “illegal,” “undocumented” or a “newcomer,” but whether they intend to protect Americans from gang members.
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Republican Ignorance and Incuriosity Encourage Corporate-Government Collusion Against Liberty
Too many Republicans still believe that running interference for big business is the same thing as preserving and defending liberty. They completely miss the ways that corporations have become the hand inside the sock puppet of big government.
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A Constitution Unburdened by Consent
Because we have unburdened our political rhetoric from authentic Christianity and our Constitution from the necessity of reflecting our consent, we are burdened instead by empty language and forms now used to enslave us.
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Can Biden Buy the Voters?
Biden knows what he has to do to win—but the educated whites who are the backbone of his party have little in common, culturally or economically, with the lower-class whites whose interest is in work, not woke.
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Oscar Oversights
Black actors and authors are still ignored in Hollywood—including some with very revealing stories to tell.
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Haley’s Career Died Because of the GOP’s Poison Ideology
This is what happens to leaders who despise their voters and whose contempt for the culture, faith, and heritage of their people is palpable and overpowering—to the point that such leaders cannot contain themselves.
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Dakota Johnson’s Honesty and Madame Web’s Failure
The actress’s frankness about her regrets over participating in this turkey of a film is a breath of fresh air. It’s a cause to be hopeful that studios will learn that there are penalties for choosing to relegate art to the algorithms.
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Liberal Elites Against Democracy
One of the great ironies of our present age is that democracy's would-be eponymous outfit, the Democratic Party, has become an enemy of democracy itself.
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Teflon Don Strikes Again
Trump's fight with our corrupt system is why his supporters can’t let him go. Who knows? It just might make him president again.
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Why I’m Not Cheering for AIPAC
It’s not the job of American conservatives to be loudly endorsing the taking down of American politicians who are critical of Israel.
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SCOTUS’s Unanimous Decision and the Pandemic of Trump Derangement Syndrome
That things could get ugly and fast explains why it was imperative for the Supreme Court to rule as it did in the Colorado ballot case—and to do so unanimously.
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The Left’s Beef With Beef
New York’s Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against a beef producer is a warning to businesses not to expect impartial justice.
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Clueless in Cuba
The Squad’s recent trip to Cuba shows what happens when the need for illusion is deep.
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Two Cheers for the United States Supreme Court
Monday’s decision was a movement in support of the rule of law over and against lawfare and the rule of unhinged partisan power.
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American Public Education Is Beyond Crisis Mode
Parents who don’t want their children to be subject to the ever-changing winds of today’s left-wing therapeutic culture will have to make the word “sacrifice” part of their vocabulary.
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Veepstakes Give Trump an Edge
Small though the influence of a VP pick usually is, Trump has several ways to turn the right choice into a winning hand.
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Supreme Court’s Trump Ruling Highlights Divisions Between Justices
Following Monday’s ruling on the Colorado ballot case, the Supreme Court is likely to only hear cases that can be resolved with the support of the liberal justices, while avoiding those that expose the Court’s the political divisions.
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U.S. Flunks Its Own Election Standards
Freedom House sees election corruption everywhere except in the U.S., where the government pays its bills, and the legal system coordinates with the administration to impoverish and imprison the conservative opposition.