Mainstreaming of marijuana leads to mainstream revulsion.
Author: Pedro Gonzalez (Pedro Gonzalez)
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The Right Needs to Tell Better Stories
Now that it’s in power, the right needs to get better at persuading people. Instead, it’s hitting them over the head with ideologically driven talking points that only elicit cheers from the amen corner.
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Conservatives Don’t Need Affirmative Action
Sometimes you deserve the bad grades you get—even if they are given to you by a transgender leftist professor.
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MAGA’s Transhumanist Tension
The MAGA coalition between American populists and the Silicon Valley tech-right is rife with contradictions. It's only a question of when, not if, the underlying tension will erupt.
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Data Centers ‘Über Alles’
If Americans had realized how much the Trump administration would cater to Silicon Valley, the election last November might have turned out differently.
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The Kids Might Be Alright
Actor Timothée Chalamet opened a virtual can of worms for praising parenthood and decrying his generation’s inclination to see it as a burden.
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A Grand Old Bloodbath
Denying voter sentiment on the economy is a strategy for more GOP defeats.
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The Mental Chains of Conspiratorial Thinking
Increased belief in conspiracy theories often coincides with societal crises; there are cycles, periods in which conspiracism waxes and wanes against the backdrop of uncertainty and tumult.
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An Unpopularity Contest Ahead of Midterms
Neither Republicans nor Democrats have a handle on what the electorate really wants ahead of the coming midterm elections. Their best strategy may be to be hated the least.
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The Poison in America’s Heart
Online radicalization, whether from the left or right, seems to be the real root of the recent spate of political assassinations.
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Escaping the Shallows
AI is not only breeding intellectual laziness, it's breeding intellectual blandness. McWorld turned out to be more cognitive than corporate!
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Cultivating Serious Conservative Journalism
The executive director of ISI’s Collegiate Network, Marlo Slayback, has a plan for cultivating on the right what’s long been missing in most of conservative media: serious journalism.
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The Emerging Right on Parade
A former MSNBC host paraded out a selection of young people on the new right and their performances left much to be desired.
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Brooke Rollins, Corporate America’s Favorite Mole Within MAGA
Brooke Rollins is a libertarian wonk who managed to hitch her wagon to the Trump movement, but she does MAGA no favors.
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MAGA Is Getting the Ukraine Aid It Voted For
Trump has always been more hawkish than his base on aid for Ukraine.
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Vulnerable Power
In this liminal shift between the old and the new, pop star Sabrina Carpenter seems to embrace something closer to the vulnerability that represents true feminine power.
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Mamdani Speaks to the AI Generation’s Casualties
Conservatives should not be surprised to see the rise of left-wing populists like Zohran Mamdani when the economic insecurity of voters goes unaddressed.
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Futurism, AI, and the Destructive Power of Speed
With an indifference to all things that came before, AI Futurists seek to level and sever all connections with the past.
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Patent Law Is All That Stands Between Us and Techno Babylon
Tech titans seek the abolition of intellectual property laws in order to turn all human creativity into bricks in the foundation of their competing Babelian towers.
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Parenting’s Generational Divide
Mothers, and parents in general, face unique challenges today that previous generations did not, and they have less support in facing them. It takes a toll.
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Are You More Human Than a Chatbot?
We need to ask ourselves if the outsourcing of human relationships to chatbots may have something to do with our own inability to be fully human in those relationships.
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Creatively Disabled Authors and the AI Crutch
The decision of the organizers behind National Novel Writing Month to embrace AI has called down a shower of deserved derision.
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The New Social Revolution
MAGA supporters insist the managers are on their way out the door, but a new technocratic elite could be rising.
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Waiting for the Golden Age
The AI revolution may not lay the golden egg we’ve been led to believe is coming.
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The Time Is Ripe for a Serious Adaptation of ‘Starship Troopers’
The 1997 film adaptation was enjoyable but failed to take the source material seriously for political reasons. A new adaptation has the chance to correct that.
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Promethean Fire in the Age of AI
Completely outsourcing creativity to algorithms would be a grave mistake and nothing short of a betrayal of what makes us human. It also doesn’t make much sense if you consider yourself a culture warrior.
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Conservative Stewardship Versus the Libertarian Tech Bros
Trump’s new Silicon Valley allies want to create high-tech ultra-capitalist economic zones, at the expense of conserving nature and the quality of life.
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Museum Spat With Turkey Reveals the Superiority of Western Culture
Turkey’s demand for the U.S. to return so-called Turkish artifacts reveals little more than that nation’s resentment of the West.
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Biohackers Can’t Cheat Death
In the end, all attempts to avoid death make it that much harder to accept it and, in the process, make life less sweet.
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Replacement Theory Meets Replacement Fact
Trump's tech-titan friends clash with the MAGA base over high-skilled foreign labor. In truth, this clash was inevitable. The MAGA honeymoon was over before it began.
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Justice Starts at Home
As the next election cycle begins, Soros-backed prosecutors seem likely to face a homegrown reckoning.
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The Die-Hard Myth of the Missing American Tech Workers
A narrative with its origins in little more than greed refuses to die, despite readily available evidence refuting it.
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Compassion Denied
There are reasons for the joyous public reaction following healthcare CEO Brian Thompson's assassination. It is important that we understand those reasons.
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Feelings Don’t Care About Facts
New Yorkers who sense that they have something to fear from crime are not irrational or crazy, whatever the numbers say.
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Kid Dynamite’s Last Ride
Iron Mike’s last turn in the ring may have been a “loss” and a travesty. But it represents something irrepressibly human and admirable at the same time.
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American Men and the Emerging Culture Shift
This year signaled a rightward cultural shift for males and an opportunity for males to shape American culture.
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Spite Not Your Neighbor Over Politics
The inclination to view friends, family, and neighbors as evil when they disagree with us politically is usually a way to scapegoat our own shortcomings.
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In Rose City, the Dream Has Wilted
Springfield's history provides important context for Donald Trump's wild tales of pet-eating Haitian emigres.
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What’s the Matter With Men?
Men have come to understand that it’s rarely in their interest to intervene on behalf of justice, order, or civilization.
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On Child-Free Men
There’s more going on in the rise of men forgoing marriage and fatherhood today than meets the eye.
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Anarcho-Tyranny in Aurora
As Venezuelan gang members harass and pillage tenants in one Colorado city, the local authorities blame landlords. Anarcho-tyranny has come to Colorado.
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A Grimdark Videogame Masterpiece
The newly released Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 shows the ways that video games can be authentic art and drive the politically correct busybodies in media crazy.
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Imperfectly Human
In our sometimes too perfect digital world, it is good to relish the imperfections that were marked by an older technology.
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The Tides of Chaos
The near assassination of President Trump failed to unite Americans. Rather, America is more divided and chaotic than ever.
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A Killing in Canton Points to the Dysfunction of Law Enforcement
What kind of system allows a single unproductive member of society to tyrannize an entire neighborhood?
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Book Burners for Our Year Zero
The acceleration of “sensitivity editing” in publishing is an under studied, but crucial, aspect of our recent attempted cultural reset following the George Floyd riots.
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It’s Not Pat Buchanan’s Party
The GOP has certainly changed its vintage. Buchananism, however, it is not.
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The Politics of Enmity
America’s politics are now characterized by an enmity that expresses itself through violence.