In 'Inevitable Differences,' John Staddon celebrates the kind of diversity that leftists cannot tolerate.
Author: Alexander Riley (Alexander Riley)
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The Elites, the Popular Classes, and ‘The Bad News Bears’
The American classic that walked a generation through the cultural chaos of the 1970s turns 50 this year.
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Women’s Basketball Will Never Be Popular—and Doesn’t Deserve to be Well-Paid
NPR celebrated a new minimum salary of $270,000 per year for WNBA players as merely a “livable wage,” even though the average U.S. salary is less than $65,000.
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Cesar Chavez Is Not the Only ’60s Leftist Sex Criminal
The line between hero and criminal on the left often depends more on which part of the coalition a particular person serves than it does on that person’s conduct.
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The People’s Republic of Termite World
In Breakneck, Dan Wang explains how the 'engineer mind' moves quickly in building the dystopian hellscape that is China.
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Insufficiently Communist? There’s a Medical Fix for That!
Researchers unbound by ethical constraints and committed to ideological progressivism continue to pose a threat to freedom.
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Trump, Anthropic, and What We Should Fear from AI
“Trust the experts” is no more comforting advice coming from private-sector experts than from those in government.
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‘That Sounds Kind of Nice’: The Progressive Pitch for Polyamorous Marriage
If you thought the progressive pitch for transgressive sexual relations had reached its limit, you thought wrong.
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Pagels’ Man-Made God
In 'Miracles and Wonder,' Elaine Pagels fashions a God without miracles or wonder.
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The Sad and Sterile World of Tinder
The dating app advertises a world where transgression is normalized, romantic aspiration is empty, and society is best served in neutering itself.
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A Working-Class Siren Song, Sung Blue
In Song Sung Blue, Hollywood distorts an authentic narrative of the struggles of American working-class life into an unrealistic fantasy about stardom and celebrity.
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‘Schoolhouse Rock!’: When American Children’s Television Was Still Sane
The series created by advertising executive David McCall to help his son memorize multiplication tables taught a generation of children much more than math.
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Deliver Me from My WWII Veteran Father and His Traditional America
Hollywood's Springsteen biopic reveals a young Springsteen fixated on the shortcomings of his father. But it's the father and the American heartland values he represents who comes out looking better than the whiny singer.
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Some Are More Equal than Others
Economists of the left, such as Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel, push utopian egalitarianism based on the premise that inequality is a social ill, rather than a universal feature of human society.
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Return of a Race Hustler
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ thoughts on Charlie Kirk say much more about him than they do about the work of the late conservative activist.
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The Unlearned Lesson of Samuel Paty
The anniversary of the murder of a French schoolteacher by Islamic extremist immigrants reminds us that not every group can be assimilated into Western societies.
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The Real Ozzy
Ozzy Osbourne was not the literal “Prince of Darkness” his elitist critics want us to believe, but the populist voice of a generation snubbed by the smug corruption and greed of their elders.
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Children Are Our Future, and the Future Is Grim
Melissa Deckman tries to criticize Gen Z's role in politics while clearly sympathizing with their most biggest radicals.
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The “Sad Charlie Kirk Died, But…” Crowd Is Not Worth Your Time
If Kirk’s murder teaches anything about the radical left, it is this: They will not be convinced of anything through careful and respectful discussion.
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Woke Ideology Has Always Benefited Elites, Not Victims
Musa al-Gharbi argues, in 'We Have Never Been Woke,' that super-wealthy leftists display their wokeism to signal status while quietly detesting the consequences of their own policies.
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The Sage on the Stage vs. the Student-Directed Classroom
The pedagogy of the last several decades, eschewing lectures and expert lecturers, is shortchanging students and giving them a false sense of confidence.
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A Quarter of Americans Are on Medicaid
When that many people are receiving Medicaid to cover their medical expenses, one has to wonder whether this level of dependency is part of the plan.
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The Truth About the Kent State Shootings
Brian VanDeMark’s ‘Kent State: An American Tragedy’ combines history and advocacy. Unfortunately, the facts get in the way of the story—as is often the case with left-wing myths.
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How Progressive Researchers Are Trying to Turn Men Into Victims of Sexual Violence
A new “made to penetrate” category of rape attempts to expand the definition of sexual violence and blur the distinction between male and female sexuality.
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Muhammad Ali and a Half-Century of Fooling Ourselves
The full legacy of Muhammad Ali, including his period of venomous anti-white bigotry, needs to be remembered and understood.
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A Courageous and Painful Reckoning
Conservative economist and public intellectual Glenn Loury recounts his own struggle for political and personal responsibility in a new autobiography.
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Study Blames Americans for Stressing Out Immigrants
Researchers discover that immigration to the U.S. is harmful to immigrants, but only because we’re so terrible that we ask them to assimilate.
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Pew’s Untrustworthy Spin of Its Social Trust Survey
Pew’s latest survey of social trust correctly measures the indicators of growing social distrust but, predictably, filters the interpretation of the data through a bogus and dated lens.
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Bureaucratic Masters
A recent book by USAID Insider Mark Moyar shows how bureaucracy works in predictable and corrupting ways—especially when it came to sabotaging the agenda of President Trump.
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War Is With Us Forever
Richard Overy argues in 'Why War?' that war is an inevitable effect of causes deeply embedded within human nature.
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Bruce Springsteen May Be a Woke Loser, But His Art Is MAGA
It is fascinating to see how the musician’s political opinions diverge so greatly from the art that made him rich and famous.
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The Sad and Beautiful Death of the Modern Man of the West
Michel Houellebecq, in his final novel, grapples with the struggle to find meaning in the meaningless contemporary West.
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The Commercial Cultural Revolution Is Upon Us
If you’ve noticed that commercial representation of whites and heterosexual couples has significantly decreased in recent years, at least as compared to their actual numbers in the population, you’re not alone.
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Pets of the English Department Activated to Stem the Deep Decline in English Majors
Dogs and cats step in where professors fear to tread.
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Citing Scripture for a Progressive Purpose
'The Progressives’ Bible' shows how leftists over the ages—from abolitionists to abortionists—have distorted scripture to build a rhetorical foundation for their political causes and movements.
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The Religion of Secular Doomsayers
"American Spirit or Great Awokening?" carefully decodes the hidden religious elements of wokeism’s fascination with climate apocalypticism and trans identity. This little book, however, makes some significant missteps.
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The Striking Silence Surrounding July 13
There is a wall of silence surrounding both the unknown and the known lessons of the Trump assassination attempt last summer.
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Reparations Are Indefensible on Factual and Rational Grounds
An examination of the real consequences of American slavery do not demonstrate what the proponents of reparations say they do.
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The Last Acceptable Prejudice
'White Rural Rage' alleges hatred, bigotry, and utter depravity of white, rural, Christians with no real evidence. Of course, there is not a forthcoming 'Black Urban Rage.'
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If You Can’t Debate, You Ought Not to Vote
Self-righteous college students who are frustrated in real debate should also consider whether they are suited to vote.
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My Own Brush With Abortion
As an “inconvenient” child born before Roe, I was lucky that there was no notion of a “right to an abortion” then.
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The Christmas Season Is a Time to Recall the Finitude of Our Days
It is not morbid thinking to remember that Christmas is a call to love one another as we reflect on our mortality.
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The Follies of ‘Centrists’ on Academic Freedom
The defense of academic freedom offered by those who wish to position themselves as centrists on the question is no help at all.
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Judith Butler, Gender Sophist
Judith Butler has made out of her gibberish a lifelong, well-paid gig, and she endeavors to advance her own radical worldview through her sophistical skills.
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Freedom of Political Expression Only Goes One Way
Despite Donald Trump’s victory last week, supporters and voters on the right remain less likely than those on the left to be open about their political leanings.
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The One Big Reason I Can’t Vote for Harris
Kamala Harris’s open contempt for Western civilization and the culture that built America is disqualifying.
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Guns of Delusion
Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware partake in academia's mass handwringing over the indigenous “right-wing terror threat”—allegedly represented by the Jan. 6 riot.
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What the Left Calls Voting Rights Cheapens Your Vote
The left’s incessant call to make voting easier is really about making it trivial and unimportant.
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Against Self-Mutilation: Tattoos and Body Piercing
The increase in tattoos and piercings cuts across the political divide in America. But it is an indication that something is deeply wrong with our culture.
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On Not Forgiving or Forgetting 9/11
You do not do something like this to my people and expect me ever to get over it.