The West will come to regret dismissing the foundations of civilized society as “social issues” and exporting radical, woke ideologies as a means of combatting the pathologies that already exist abroad. Instead of offering liberation, we have only pushed these peoples toward additional grievances and inspired more violence.
Today we face a serious bout of historical amnesia, be it in the collective sense or as individuals. We all desperately need some connection to the past. Films like Holiday Inn give us an opportunity to become custodians of Americana.
A culture is characterized by its public rites. Western culture today shows itself most clearly in popular song and what we hear is in need of an antidote.
Carl Reiner’s son, Rob, takes part in a grand tradition on the left of demonizing normal, religious people after being advanced, personally, by powerful relationships. On the left, it’s all relative and “all in the family.”
When Republicans ask questions about the integrity of our elections it's insurrection. When Democrats do it, it's just politics.
Migrants complain about rotten food. The worst rot is inside the Adams administration's handling of this emergency.
Unlike the original Nutcracker Suite, which is a Christmas story of good triumphing over the evil of narcissism, the only moral to First Lady Jill Biden’s recently released Christmas video is the triumph of narcissism.
Aristocracy is the problem, and Americans will fight it with any weapon at hand—including Donald Trump.
After Ukraine, Beltway grandees will have to choose between accepting that America is but one great power among other great powers in a multipolar world, or continuing to pursue their insane obsession with America being the world’s “benevolent global hegemon.”
Great musical artists approach the coda, without the recognition they deserve. As the year closes, we’d do well to remember (or discover) their work.
Norman Taurog’s Technicolor comedy-musical Bundle of Joy (1956) is a radical film that makes the use of Christmas joy to hold up the life-affirming and true love of a mother, father, and grandfather as both the pinnacle of Christian morality and the Christmas spirit.
Instead of taking the responsible approach of admitting sanctuary policies are a failure and reversing course, mayors have taken absurd steps to appear to be leading while maintaining their good standing among those adhering to the anti-borders orthodoxy.
Colleges profess openness, tolerance, and a commitment to diversity. But when it comes to ideological diversity, they sing a different tune.
There is little excuse for Schumer’s shock, and his speech on anti-Semitism, delivered in his usual sanctimonious style, was unimpressive. It may have satisfied him. There is no reason it should satisfy anybody else.
Biden is welcoming destitute migrants, instead of newcomers who are educated, have job skills to succeed in today's economy, speak English and arrive ready to provide for their families.
The FBI has mastered the art of intimidating elected leaders with its FISA surveillance power.
When a politician stakes his campaign on a demonstration of how thorough, consistent and philosophically pure he is, he might impress conservative journalists and policy wonks, but they don't pick the nominee.
As I look at the Johnny-Come-Lately critics of our anti-Semitic universities, I am reminded of the French Communist Party during and after the fall of France. Why should we now celebrate those who contributed to this poisoning of our culture?
Frank Capra’s film, Meet John Doe, makes clear—especially as Christmas Day approaches—that man is not the measure of all things. It is only when God’s wisdom is the foundation of man’s being and existence that we can live authentically in both words and deeds.
As so often is the case, victim advocacy groups only voice concern for victims when their attackers are considered political opponents.
Is today’s life of convenience really better, more human, and more fulfilling than the kind of lives our forebears lived in which the struggle of everyday life pointed always to the sacred?
The left’s hashtag activism about sexual violence is just pure politics meant to manipulate female voters into believing that Democratic policies protect women.
While Sen. Tuberville failed in his effort to curtail the Pentagon’s new plan to subsidize soldier abortions, his willingness to stand alone in opposition to the deep state juggernaut is inspiring.
Statutes of limitations are necessary to ensure defendants get fair trials. Politically motivated suspensions hurt more than just their intended targets and are incompatible with justice.
The United States is not Israel. Understanding that does not make you an anti-Semite or even hostile to Israel. It’s just reality: a concept that appears increasingly elusive to GOP leadership and establishment conservatives.
Political scientists say presidential elections are referendums on the incumbent. If that’s the case next year, none of the Biden team’s grounds for optimism will matter.
Leagues like the NHL have made their moral stances clear—their millionaire star players may not engage in sports gambling, but hockey fans are subjected to over two hours of gambling propaganda during each broadcast.
One of Henry Kissinger’s greatest virtues was his political realism and his resistance to America’s messianic urge, relentlessly promoted by both neoconservatives and neoliberals, to dominate the world as global hegemon.
Ironically, a new documentary about Tom Wolfe, “Radical Wolfe,” lacks the radical thrust it laments is missing today and that Wolfe himself had.
If not Biden, the next batter up is Harris. The die is cast.
Since the start of the Biden administration, 1.7 million “gotaways” have entered the country. Many of them are running away from justice in their home countries and bringing their criminality to the United States.
According to the centrist, hawkish wing of the GOP, even far-left Democrats are “traditional” pseudo-conservatives as long as they are pro-Israel.
“Justice” in America today is an arrangement where the living and dead are judged to be guilty or innocent on the basis of race.
The path to the nomination for anyone other than Trump is exceedingly narrow. Voter composition and mobilization efforts will be key for Trump’s rivals.
No one is persuaded when the media describes as an Irish national an Algerian man who stabs Irish children. The gaslighting may only radicalize people in the end.
Do not serve a regime that hates you. When it comes to the American military, it is time for the nation’s spirited young men to meme on, stand up, and drop out.
This Thanksgiving we’d do well to revisit this American classic. “Don’t lose your goodness!” this film firmly instructs us.
Emails released by the House Judiciary Committee should outrage Americans. The federal government devised a scheme to covertly stamp out public debate over election fraud.
It is important to pinpoint exactly what makes the actions of campus wokesters evil. It’s not their speech codes that should concern us, but their stealing of rights through fraud.
According to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine, as of 2021 women were outliving men by 5.8 years. But the last thing men need is to be designated another victim group.
Leftist control of all our power structures, not defects in our charter, are at the heart of our current woes. Application of muscle from the top should be our top priority in trying to restore an American republic.
China’s grand strategy of building and projecting its “comprehensive national power” is a long-term geopolitical design fundamentally incompatible with Washington’s determination to maintain its open-ended “full spectrum dominance.”
If Trump’s momentum continues to build, we may be on the precipice of witnessing a world-historic, resounding affirmation of the people’s desire for self-government, against incredible odds.
There is a clear message in this film: Weakness is evil. But the cacophony of voices and perspectives from which Scorsese draws, demonstrates an ironic weakness in his making of this film.
Homelessness in California is just one of the many causes of Gov. Gavin Newsom's waning popularity. But this week's fires show it to be a serious problem for the Golden State.
America has taken on financial and social debts it cannot pay as a result of excessive immigration, and the consequences of those decisions have adversely affected all but the wealthy elites among us.
Being a brave man in our deteriorating society is hard and will get harder. But that is when it matters most.
An agenda of four items, different as night and day from the confusion and lack of focus sinking New York and other cities, offers a simple way to save them.
Dilbert cartoonist, Scott Adams, dedicates much of his daily podcast to educating listeners about the way to consume the news skeptically. Americans should take heed.
The sacred American heritage of consent requires exercise if we want it to be meaningful and to preserve our ability to govern ourselves.