The Right

Thomas Friedman Is at It Again

“What is certain, however, is that part two of this degradation will occur in the not too distant future, and part three some time after that, if this advice of this New York Times columnist is followed.”

Islam and the West: Culturally and Theologically Divided

“The cultural and theological division between Islam and the West is real, and these differences in religious philosophies play themselves out in a very concrete way in the modern world, just as they have in the past and will continue to do in the future.”

Against Michelle Wu’s Anti-Market Real Estate Proposal

“If Chairman Wu were in power when Henry Ford was ruining the blacksmith, horse training and saddle making industries, she would have taxed the latter and subsidized the former. How about when computers took out the typewriter, carbon paper, and correction fluid (Wite-Out) industries?”

Review: “In Defense of Civilization” by Michael R. J. Bonner

“Bonner has done a great service in reminding us what true civilization means, the cost of losing it, and how we can regain it.”

In Reply to Beckeld: What Is “the West” Nowadays?

“Where I may disagree most emphatically with Beckeld is in his idealization of the ‘West,’ which is supposedly currently at war with barbarous ‘non-Western enemies.’ From my perspective, much of what we see in the impassioned pro-Hamas protests represents where Western civilization has moved in the

What One Must Understand about the New Israel War

“The ‘peace process’ and the ‘two-state solution’ are other thought clichés that must be questioned because ultimately whoever speaks of these, or even more generally of a ‘political settlement,’ has not understood the conflict at all.”

Why I Left the Democratic Party to Support Donald Trump

“I realized that if my Columbia education were to have any meaning, I would have to be bold and risk my music career and go public with my support of President Trump, who was the President of the United States at the time of my graduation in 2017.”

Patrick Deneen: “Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future”

“The so-called conservative movement of the 1980s was anything but conservative.”

What Karl Marx Can Teach Us about Abortion

“What better way to avoid paying for maternity leave, family health insurance, and other perks than to make sure that one’s employees never have children?”

Urgently Reconsidering the Doctrine of Multiculturalism

“As is sadly often the case, it is only when an issue becomes overwhelmingly acute or when it is too late to correct course, that those once derided as alarmists are dutifully acknowledged to have been correct all along.”

The Media’s Blood Libel of Israel

“All of this could have been uncovered with measured reporting and a skepticism that avoids trusting the word of the baby-murdering terror group, Hamas.”

Black Lives Matter’s Shameful Response to the Attacks on Israel

“Meanwhile, the silence of companies such as Ben and Jerry’s that claim to support injustice is deafening. Clearly, when the issue of state-sponsored violence against the nation of Israel is in question, silence is an option…”

As the Violence Escalates, We Mustn’t Forget the Role of Iran

“The disturbing element here is not just the escalation but the advanced level of military precision demonstrated by Hamas—an unnerving signal that Iran’s influence is looming larger than ever.”

War in Israel, War in the West

“This is not Israel’s 9/11. It is not even Israel’s Pearl Harbor. It is worse by an order of magnitude. The closest parallel is the Rape of Nanking.”

Iran Invades Israel Through Hamas

“But one thing is absolutely clear: This is war, not just a terror attack. This is war not just by Hamas on Israel, but by Iran—through Hamas—on Israel.”

Paul Gottfried: Understanding the Rich History of Paleoconservatism

Black War Cinema and the Representation Paradox

“For all of their insistence on cultural revolution, progressives are not yet ready to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.”

The Ever Tenuous Coalition That Is the Left

“What makes this conflict noteworthy is that it reveals stress lines within the coalition of today’s Left, a coalition that often seems held together more by what it hates than by strong bonds of friendship.”

Confessions of a Beautiful Soul

“Despite the book’s homage to Friedrich Schiller via its title, we get nothing even remotely reminiscent of the profound intellectual mind meld between him and his great friend Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.”

The Many Casualties of Hazing

“They were given a choice to participate, and they ultimately decided it was worth risking their life, health, individuality, and future for a chance to be a part of a group of people who ultimately couldn’t care less about them.”

The Stale Defeatism of the “Chomsky/Carlin Thesis”

“While criticizing the United States, Chomsky, Senator Bernie Sanders, those at outlets such as The Grayzone, and some of my friends have defended the likes of Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro.”

Do They Really Believe in Eugenics?

“While denouncing the eugenics movement, one must also recognize that its repudiation by the progressive mainstream signals the rise of a self-centered ethos that is destructive in its own right.”

Review: “The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On ‘Liberal’ as an Adjective” by Michael Walzer

“Reading between the lines, we learn in fact that [Michael] Walzer believes that the Right, wrong in its continuing adherence to capitalism, but correct in its eschewal of intellectual fashion, currently has a monopoly on political wisdom.”

Prelude to War: Lessons from the Second Spanish Republic

“The Second Spanish Republic has many parallels with modern American politics. Much like its counterparts in Spain, the American left of today is no less preoccupied with terraforming the cultural landscape.”

Review: Spencer Klavan’s “How To Save The West”

“Being a classicist and student of Greek philosophy, Klavan turns to his education to solve these philosophical dilemmas.”

Boris Johnson’s Most Fundamental Failure: Immigration

“After all, one of the major reasons for the Conservatives’ 2019 election landslide victory was due to [Johnson’s] populist rhetoric regarding mass immigration, including the Conservatives’ promise that ‘overall numbers will come down.’”

Who Will Fix a Broken Internet Landscape Before It’s Too Late?

“Despite the enormous improvements that technology has contributed to the human condition, if we do not choose to fix the way the Internet works, there remains the potential for a digital Pearl Harbor-type event.”

Marxism Has Been No Deliverer from Ethnic Strife

“Any utopian project that tolerates humanity’s diverse values and identities only to the extent that they help advance a narrowly defined vision of progress can only end in indiscriminate violence.”

How a “National Divorce” Could Actually Unite Americans

“Far from giving up on the American project, national divorce aims to renew and deepen our ability to live in harmony together.”

Review: Carl Trueman’s “Strange New World”

“It bears repeating that this is a very good book. Trueman performs a thorough but concise excavation of the intellectual, philosophical, and metaphysical currents that he sees as moving below the crashing waves of our present cultural storm.”

From Tanks to Think Tanks

“One can judge the winds of change in foreign policy by the sudden proliferation of think tanks piping up and stating the obvious. There are tanks and think tanks and, despite the commitment of the Leopards, it may be the think tanks that are gaining the upper hand.”

In Reply to Robert Jensen: The Folly of the Nazi Comparison

“In fact, most Southerners did not own slaves; nor were Union soldiers, most of whom were drafted, fighting for the woke ideals of Jensen or the Southern Poverty Law Center.”

Republicans Should Stop Pandering about Charter Schools

“I have no idea why Republicans and the GOP media fall over themselves rallying to the cause of those who hate them and who would never vote for them, no matter what.”

The Value in Reading Byung-Chul Han

“Han occupies a somewhat unique position in today’s world that defies typical Right-Left categorization. This is partly because of Han’s bridging of multiple worlds: East and West; art and philosophy; theology and politics.”

Multiculturalism Is Madness

“The fact is that, historically, Great Britain has had a remarkably stable demographic makeup for at least a thousand years, if not much longer. The idea that what we have experienced since 1997…is in any way comparable or equivalent to the past is nonsense, at best, and disingenuous, at worst.”

We Are All Socialists

“Echoing this notion from on high, in 2016 the [World Economic Forum] announced the imminence of a post-historical future in the Marxist sense: ‘Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better.’”

The Boredom of War

“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s biggest enemy is not the West’s reticence to sending more drones, more weapons, and more fighter jets. President Zelenskyy’s biggest enemy is boredom.”

Mary Harrington: On a Philosophy of Limits

“And my argument is that freedom and progress in the context of the cyborg era are actually inimical to women’s interests. They don’t make things better for any women, except [for] a very small, elite subset.”

Review: Maurice Glasman’s “Blue Labour: The Politics of the Common Good”

“For Labour forgot that life involves loss and tragedy. It forgot that ‘human beings are not commodities, but creative and social beings longing for connection and meaning.’”

William Jacobson: What Happened to Campus?

“I’m not optimistic at all that campuses can be reformed. They certainly cannot be reformed from within…Academia is gone. It is a monoculture. It is a hermetically sealed bubble.”

Jordan Peterson’s “A Conservative Manifesto” Is Not Conservative

“It is instead Hayekian liberalism delivered with a Calvinist grimness.”

Review: Slavoj Žižek’s “Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed”

“Combining inanity with compelling anecdote, idiocy with sensible instruction, Žižek addresses himself to the ‘mess we’re in.’”

Heather Mac Donald: Medicine Under Fire

“Scientific conferences are being determined based on sex and race. It’s going to slow down medical progress, and it is also going to put physicians in the ER and the operating room who are not the top qualified.”

The Joy of the Knife: On Autoimmune Responses in Politics

“If we look at culture as a superorganism with its own immunological mechanisms, we can recognize modern societies as being profoundly dysregulated, and this gets worse the more modern they get.”

Canada and the Many Problems with Euthanasia

“The story goes on to detail another Canadian citizen who was repeatedly and continuously offered euthanasia, to such an extent that he began recording these occasions.”

The Queen: 1926-2022

“It is too much to say that the world will not see her like again; there is within all of us the potential to aim for the higher moral life that the Queen embodied, if we engage in the striving that she did that is necessary to attain this.”

Review: “People Love Dead Jews” by Dara Horn

“All of this is captured in twelve essays in novelist Dara Horn’s powerful and coruscating book on why people still love dead Jews over living Jews. It is a book that shreds modern piety and sophistry in equal measure.”

Interview: Brad Lips, CEO of Atlas Network

“Any coherent system of morality begins with an appreciation of human dignity and wanting people to have as many choices to take control of their lives as possible.”

British Conservatism Is Doomed

“To put it simply, if one cannot accumulate capital, he will not support capitalism; and if one has no solid basis for conserving one’s family and community, which property provides, then he will not become a conservative.”

Yoram Hazony: National Conservatism in a Midterm Year

“Conservatives are certainly not socialists. Conservatives do not believe, as the Marxists do, that you can open up some central office with really bright people and dictate the course of the entire economy of the nation. We don’t believe anything like that. On the other hand…”

Review: Matthew Continetti’s “The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism”

“It is to Continetti’s credit that he develops his narrative after this with fair-minded even-handedness for the most part, even if he lets his own views bleed through in the chapters concerning President Trump’s rise and fall, as well as the mix of grift and genuine intellectual ferment that he dra

Review: China Miéville’s “A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto”

“Sentimental and sycophantic in turns, it may be hard to dispel the impression that Miéville is merely a hysteric. All the same, A Spectre, Haunting is a post-Nietzschean book, which leans into the charge of ressentiment. Spurning subterfuge, Miéville quite openly asserts that justice and revenge am

Being Critical of Enlightenment Triumphalism Isn’t Always Wrong

“Having considered the evidence, it seems more accurate to say that the Enlightenment project presented itself as a savior from ignorance and poverty but was really a movement to dethrone the old social order rooted in hierarchies and aristocracies.”

The Quarrel within American Conservatism

“The current politics of California, which more than any other American state has been shaped by mass immigration from Mexico, should likewise shake the confidence of conservatives who scoff at the alleged illiberalism of immigration hawks.”

Limits in a World That Erases Them

“There is a paradox to life that an acceptance of limits, borders, and boundaries can be the most liberating thing of all.”

Young Americans for Liberty: An Interview with CEO Lauren Daugherty

“Ron Paul is so beloved because he is so principled. That is what we are focused on here. We will work with other people who share our interests, but we’re not going to sacrifice our principles to do it.”

Review: “Conservatism: A Rediscovery” by Yoram Hazony

“In my own life, being disabled and living with an acute example of life’s predicament means that the worldview Hazony describes and prescribes has made far more sense and has offered far more consolation than liberalism ever could.”

Review: “Obedience is Freedom” by Jacob Phillips

“Denial, as Jacob Phillips deftly shows in his fascinating and staggeringly original new book Obedience is Freedom, is precisely what the liberal-left excels in, substituting for a world of limits and constraints a schizoid universe where subjectivity is all that counts.”

Cancel Culture and the Tolerance of the Natural Aristocracy

“To really thrive in our own communities, we need more than just Law and Order; a strong social fabric is required that encourages virtuous behavior as much as it punishes delinquency.”

Review: “Don’t Burn This Country” by Dave Rubin

“This book undoubtedly represents an evolution in Rubin’s thinking, and contrary to those who accuse him of changing to suit others, changing one’s mind on philosophical beliefs is not automatically a disqualification.”

The Term Woke Is Losing Its Punch

“It was a linguistic indication that revolutionary consciousness had made ‘the long march through the institutions.’”

The Pandemic and the Scientific Gnostics 

“As Deneen says, Voegelin ‘argued that modern Gnosticism was an effort to ‘redivinize’ the political world—not now by bringing the gods in to the service of the city, but by making the city into a heaven on earth.’”

Neither Putin Nor Russia Are “Based”

“For a start, American conservatives are either unaware of or ignore that Russia has the highest abortion rate in the world and the third highest divorce rate.”

Children of Men: Are Birth Rates Declining Due to Anti-natalism or Economics?

“For the first time ever, more than half of women aged 30 in England and Wales are childless. This is not a normative condemnation but a descriptive statement.”

Ukraine: Reality Bites

“Now, we face a second reminder of reality. First plague, now war has come to Europe, the biggest since 1945.”

Right-Liberalism Won’t Cut It

“Given the potential for a more populist conservatism that appeals to those seeking to reweave America’s weakened bonds of social and economic mutual loyalty, the right-liberalism of Murray and others is exactly the opposite of what is needed and wanted.”

Pat McCrory: How to Get a Handle on the Crime Surge

“My wife and I used to go vacation in San Francisco. We don’t anymore…This is what’s headed toward the rest of the nation.”

Against David Brooksism

“The only thing Brooks’s ‘true conservatism’ is ‘responsible’ for, however, is progressivism’s thoroughgoing dominance of our culture. For Brooks, a ‘responsible’ conservatism must concede the moral legitimacy of every progressive ‘advance.’”

The Material Roots of Wokeness

“So, the fact that what is now called wokeness is a minority persuasion, believed by a small group of elite left-liberals and pursued through the instruments of the managerial state and corporate oligarchies, should not be surprising.”

Sean Spicer: The Steele Dossier and “Radical Nation”

“I got the call on January 10th [2017] from CNN and then BuzzFeed about them running with this hoax. I pointed out at the time that it was wrong. I could demonstrably prove it was wrong. And yet, they stuck by it…”

From Libertarianism to National Conservatism

“National Conservatism, one strand of a broader emergent post-Cold War fusionist conservative movement, has the potential for both capturing youthful energy and enthusiasm while grounding and directing it with prudence and realism.”

What Motivates Retail Cryptocurrency Investors?

“Contrary to the Bitcoin apostles I met at the conference all those years ago, contemporary owners of cryptocurrency seem to be more interested in its speculative properties than its potential as an alternate currency or stable store of value.”

Afghanistan and the West’s Failure

“Whether America likes it or not, the unipolar moment, Pax Americana, is over.”

Hiding the Ball on Critical Race Theory

“Marcuse and Bell might not be on the reading lists at elementary schools, but CRT’s cynical mentality and Marxist tenets are still present in the pedagogical exercises being exposed by Christopher Rufo’s investigative journalism.”

Ranked-Choice Voting: Technocracy Run Amok

“20 years of RCV in San Francisco has neither moderated the city’s politics nor produced any novel outcomes worth replicating.”

Are Cities Heading for a Fiscal Crunch?

“Although they are run down, many still boast high local taxes. Sadly, this forms a vicious cycle of adverse selection, spiraling tax rates, and underfunding. “

Gov. Brian Kemp: How to Stand up to Corporate Pressure

“We lost the All-Star Game, but I think we won the battle because that fight has moved to other states now because we are on the right side of this issue, and we push back so hard.”

Sohrab Ahmari and Michael Brendan Dougherty on Reclaiming Faith, Family, and Nation

“In an age of iconoclasm, Ahmari reiterates the indispensable need for the icon of tradition that points beyond itself to the everlasting, and Dougherty captures how the icon of national particularism can also point beyond itself to the universal.”

The Greatest of the Forgotten Conservative Thinkers

“A polity of such geopolitical importance would surely be expected to have birthed an intellectual reaction to the French Revolution that was comparable to its formidable military response.”

Mary Harrington: Family Formation in the 2020s

“The long-term problem there is that if your feminism becomes associated with anti-natalism, sooner or later it’s going to trigger a backlash, and that backlash is not going to look very nice for women.”

Biden’s Tax Policies Would Hamstring Economic Recovery and Social Mobility

“The recovery itself is likely to be the largest job creator this decade.”

The Cult of Democracy

“The bigger the election’s participation, the bigger the mandate, and so universal suffrage elections have grown into unwieldy, ugly beasts.”

The Two-faces of Classical Music: the Bureaucratic Tyranny of Music Schools

“The reasoning has nothing whatsoever to do with functionality; indeed, it has nothing whatsoever to do with viruses or health safety. The reasoning is about symbolizing conformity to bureaucratic rule.”

Review: Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman’s “Backsliding”

“With that said, there is considerably more to democratic regression than the simplistic idea of evil, right-wing leaders whose ideas resonate with bad people.”

A Brit’s Friendly Advice to American Conservatives

“In order to win, the American Right needs to bury dead dogmas, get its head out of abstract Platonic idealism, and look reality in the face.”

Is Inflation Finally Going to Be a Problem?

“Finally, the mere expectation of inflation can actually bring it to pass.”

James Burnham: Foreseeing Our Managerial Domination (Part II)

“Ultimately, in order to thwart the managerial system, the American conservative movement needs to co-opt the managerial system.”

James Burnham: Foreseeing Our Managerial Domination

“This depoliticization of the public realm extends to the selection of the managerial class itself. Elections matter not at all. The managers perpetuate themselves…”

Elena Thérèse-Rose: Making Catholicism Shareable (Especially on the Web)

“Secondly, I’d say good advice is to gain familiarity with the saints and to perhaps gain some friends among the saints because often they are the best examples.”

Is the National Debt Finally Going to Be a Problem?

“As President Joe Biden unveils his own ambitious spending plans, it is worth asking if the national debt is finally going to have its moment.”

The Politicization of “Zack Snyder’s Justice League”

“Fixated and obsessed with Superman’s ‘whiteness,’ Phillips cannot appreciate a movie for what it is, content instead to completely misinterpret it in order to make her misguided social beliefs more palatable.”

Is Jordan Peterson Doomed by Liberalism Itself?

“The publication of Peterson’s latest book, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life is an opportunity to reflect on the impact this man has had on the cultural debate…”

Robby Soave and What a Libertarian Is to Do

“Soave’s new book, Tech Panic: Why We Shouldn’t Fear Facebook and the Future, will be published on September 28th…”

It’s Time for the Draft, with a Twist

“‘They say the great equalizer is death, but bootcamp is a close second.’”

Germany’s Been Down the Road to Serfdom; Now, China Is Doing the Same

“Like 20th century Germany, the PRC’s embrace of socialism, nationalism, and the worst elements of collectivism have resulted in unspeakable horrors.”

Conservatives Are Getting Lost in “Ideas”

“Shapiro’s most recent book How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps presents the United States’ problems, which he sees as near-fatal if left unaddressed, as rooted in the world of ideas and political philosophy.”

The Capitol and Democracy Both Qualify as “Sacred”

“The immediate danger of the Capitol attack has ended. However, the work of repairing the tear in the fabric of our nation has only just begun, a task we neglect at our peril.”

David French Talks “Divided We Fall”

“Well, the first paragraph basically says it all. It begins with ‘The continued unity of the United States of America cannot be guaranteed.’”

The Necessity of Acceptance

“What place does acceptance have in this wasteland of a year? My view, informed and influenced by living with a severe inherited disability, a fragile skin condition is that it has a central, vital place.”

Lefties Have More Fun

“Left movements exude the zest of adolescence, which is why they can generate so much thrill and camaraderie and—when they occasionally succeed—such deflated confusion and hollowness.”

The Inhumanity of Disease

“Worst of all, it isolates us.”

The Term Limit Catastrophe: Ted Cruz’s Massive “Brain Drain”

“In the nation’s capital, power will always remain; the only question is who has it.”

Why I Don’t Celebrate Black History Month

“When we, as a nation, celebrate these heritage months, all that takes place is pandering and more of an unfortunate tendency: dividing people—in the 21st century, no less—by race.”

Journalism Deserves Better Than Mehdi Hasan

“Without a doubt, journalism of this nature is as irresponsible as it is biased.”

Twitter Bans: a Portal into “the Synthetic State”

“Thus, corporate policy at Google, Apple, Amazon, et al. becomes a second set of laws by which Americans must live.”

Letter to the Editor: A Much-Needed Reality Check

“Writers like Koenig would be wise to recognize that when it comes to the intense, tribalistic, and bad-faith rhetoric (and actions) that have contributed to American decline, there are at least two sides to the story.”

Ray Haynes: Why Republicans Should Support the Popular Vote

“In the battleground states, since 2000, Republicans have won the popular vote four out of six times. In fact, Donald Trump—in 2020—won the battleground states by over 2.1 million votes.”

Kevin Williamson: How to Improve the Lot of Those Left Behind

“And he wrote this very famous novel called Infinite Jest, which he described as a very sad book about the pursuit of happiness. And so, I think in some ways, I’ve written a very sad book about the pursuit of happiness as well.”

Yoram Hazony’s “NatConTalk”: Enlarging the Conservative Conversation

“NatConTalk is a recent entrant into the conservative conversation, or what remains of such under the hegemony of social media, our contemporary digital coliseum.”

David Gurfein: Advocating on Behalf of Accused American Service Members

“The UCMJ has some key aspects to it which do not afford military personnel the same degree of presumption of innocence that you’d see in a civilian court.”

The Irrationality of Rationalism

“This condition, Epidermolysis bullosa, with which I was diagnosed after birth, is as painful as described. Singer’s language is compassionate, but what he advocates for is infanticide.”

America Was Founded in “Brotherly Love”—Not Slavery

“All of these Lenape ideas are documented in Penn and Tamanend’s treaties and would later find their way into the Constitution of the United States.”

In Reply to Tim Wise: America’s Past on Race Should Not Be Oversimplified

“The toxic consequences of drawing a crude line between America’s past and the state of our modern institutions cannot be understated.”

Does Understanding the American Project Begin with William Penn?

“He was the first to negotiate with Native Americans as a Christian, keeping the Christian-Quaker pacifist traditions in his negotiations. He actually regarded the Native Americans as equals…”

Congressman-elect Burgess Owens on Issues to Tackle in Office

“Al Davis used to say, ‘Just win, baby.’ And I tell you that’s what Americans do best. Once we wake up, once we’re engaged, once we know that our culture is at risk, we come together and start communicating. Across-party lines, Democrats and Republicans start to talk, and we rise.”

Jordan Peterson Biographer on Why People Hate Him So Much

“One can readily see why someone who has committed any part of his life to fighting ‘white privilege’ today would resent Peterson personally.”

What the Winning Conservative Coalition Looks Like

“Those who work with ideas increasingly vote for the Democrats, while those who work in physical reality with their hands or machinery increasingly vote Republican.”

How Biden Did It

“The Economist’s less-than-ringing endorsement of the former Vice President—resignedly titled, ‘Why it has to be Biden’—typifies the sentiment.”

What the Gospel Story Can Tell Us about Identity Politics

“From this vantage point, it would be difficult to imagine a more intersectional person than Jesus.”

Jordan Peterson and the Return of Solzhenitsyn

“The world was on this brink of this fiery hell when Jordan Peterson read Solzhenitsyn and began to turn from despair toward hope.”

Patrick Deneen: Grappling with the Failures of Liberalism

“This conquest of the engines of social formation is, as Patrick Deneen argues, why liberalism is failing.”

Van Morrison’s “Dangerous” Songs

“But, furthermore, there is virtue in urging society to introspection over blind obedience to narratives.”

In Praise of Trump’s “Platinum Plan” for Black Americans

“Many on the Left imply that President Trump’s initiative is just about pandering to black Americans; however, I see his plan as a roadmap to prosperity and fairness.”

Patrick Deneen: A Primer

“Or is man—like some argue of Odysseus—a restless seeker of new places, people, and experiences?”

A Few Reflections on the Death of Breonna Taylor

“Yes, racism does exist. Yes, Breonna Taylor’s death was a tragedy. However, Breonna Taylor’s tragic death is not rooted in racism.”

Changing My Mind on Universal Basic Income

“With 14 million Americans suddenly plunged into indefinite unemployment, has UBI become more popular? It seems like the answer is yes and no.”

Herbert Marcuse and Dismissing Conservative Views

“Marcuse’s efforts, for the most part, have proven successful, however. To this point, the idea of a right-wing, pro-capitalist status quo has been thoroughly ingrained into the public imagination…”

Don’t Blame Free Speech for Extremism

“Free speech does not enable extremism. Quite the contrary: It is the primary means to challenge wrongheaded attitudes, ideologies, and belief systems.”

“Systemic Racism”: a Popular Illusion 

“These slavery and race theorists are correct about the existence of the stain but wrong about it being indelible.”

Identity Politics and the Death of Moral Imagination

“The problem—as has been said so many times before—is that identity politics takes a kernel of truth about embodied human experience and pushes it to its destructive conclusion.”

Bob Woodward and “Citizen Trump”

“President Trump was acting as the United States’ cheerleader, his Republican supporters argue. He was derelict in his duty to protect the American public, charge his Democratic opponents.”

When the Press Is Just as Guilty of “Election Interference”

“As for now, journalists of Goldberg’s type are simply in the electoral interference business; and they just so happen to be doing it from within the United States’ own borders and from beneath the mastheads of once-respected magazines.”

Will Witt: What It Means to Be a Young Conservative

“How can I say I care about what I’m doing if I’m not willing to put myself in situations that might make me uncomfortable?”

Secretary Mattis and “Meditations” on Trump

“Secretary Mattis’ words are a warning and a reminder that our roots were born not of anger but of a deeply felt awareness of human limitation.”

In Gratitude for the Executive Order on Critical Race Theory

“The Melting Pot is a quaint notion now perhaps (and no longer widely taught to curious young boys and girls), but I find it useful as a basic counterimage to the sophisticated, academic concept of Critical Race Theory now being taught.”

Why Europe Is Weak on Iran

“It can be argued that the European failure to stand with the United States in maintaining sanctions on the Islamic regime is a symptom of their prolonged appeasement policy, which is masqueraded as diplomatic engagement.”

For This Black Woman, the GOP Feels Like Home

“Suddenly, the Grand Old Party was no longer seen as white, privileged, and wealthy. Instead, it was truly the party of social justice, freedom, economic opportunity, and the American Dream.”

Don’t Run Away, Conservatives

“But it feels myopic to interpret this as a larger victory or cheer for more of the same, especially if the ultimate goal is to restore some sense of ideological pluralism to mainstream institutions.”

Kayleigh McEnany: a Tough Act to Follow

“However, after the departure of three spokespeople before her, it seems that President Trump has found his keeper—and the media their match—in a 32-year-old Harvard Law School graduate: Kayleigh McEnany.”

When the Media Is Far from Being an “Arbiter of Truth”

“And when anyone sees past the illusion of impartiality, thereby revealing the propaganda’s true form, the media recovers with yet more gaslighting: You are merely imagining things.”

The Singular Courage of Tucker Carlson

“In the United States today, this is the language of the revolution’s media advance team. They want to silence one of our most prominent voices of opposition…”

The Case for Free Vaccines

“In the meantime, perhaps given their impressive track record, free-to-consumer vaccines are something we can all get behind.”

Creating an Ethos of Individualism in China

“Although China exhibits authoritarian characteristics, this, by no means, presupposes that liberty is incompatible with its people’s worldview.”

Freedom Requires Courage

“But now, being made ‘uncomfortable’ or being associated with unpopular company is sufficient reason to abandon principle.”

To Be a Caring Conservative

“All the while, the existing social safety net—combined with various anti-poverty programs—in the United States already provides for our nation’s poor by offering them an adequate standard of living.”

Interview: Rep. Jody Hice on “Defund the Police” and Big Tech Censorship

“But there is no question that we’ve got some major issues, and free speech is so dependent these days on these big tech companies, so they have to be very careful that free speech is protected. And, of course, there’s a pattern now that shows otherwise…”

Lacy Johnson, Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Challenger: Her Record Speaks for Itself

“I was in poverty once, and then I became an entrepreneur. And now I am running for office…This is the greatest country in the world.”

We Need Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Now More Than Ever

“We must first understand this socialist culture of the woke who seek to control what we think, what we say, and how we live. We must believe—like Solzhenitsyn did—that the truth can defeat them.”

The Shadow of Progress

“In a worldview that prizes purity above progress, the flawed and erroneous are stains to be expunged. Their remembrance is not only deplorable but damning by association.”

The Unimaginative Hysteria of Umair Haque

“Never mind that it is the Trump administration standing up for Uyghur Muslims, actual victims of genocide, by imposing sanctions on CPC officials this past week.”

When Censorship Is Outsourced to the Private Sector

“Our commitment to the rights of others to express themselves, even if they hold heinous beliefs, is something uniquely American, and it is perhaps the finest piece of our cultural heritage.”

Interview: How David Horowitz Sees 2020

“Our system in United States is set up in a way that forces us to compromise. The Founders thought the great threat to a democracy is factionalism.”

Interview: Adrianna San Marco, Student Journalist Fired for Conservative View

“On her ouster from The Daily Orange, the student journalist says: ‘It also affects me as student because all my peers have banded together and tried to cancel me.’”

Why People Hate Jordan Peterson So Much

“Peterson continued, ‘So the Soviets really implemented and perfected the idea of class and ethnicity based guilt, and it’s a very bad road to walk down, and it’s something that we’re very much engaged in at the moment.’”

Interview: Spike Cohen, Libertarian Nominee for Vice President

Listen to our conversation with the candidate to hear how his platform can tackle the greatest problems facing the United States today.

Finding Common Ground in Times of Anguish

“My progressive friends and I are united in wanting to see an end to police brutality, even though we may differ when it comes to the means to bring that about.”

How Close We Are to Unravelling

“The religion of Social Justice is redolent of the old paganism but without even the mortal transcendence of its pantheons.”

Is “the Long Peace” Sustainable?

“Furthermore, one of the most—if not the most—crucial contributor to the Long Peace is the spread of democracy.”

Libertarian Presidential Nominee Jo Jorgensen on the Issues

“The police issue here now is a local issue, and we will let them work it out. If I was a president now, I would say no, we not not need to do something.”

Mattis Biographer: Why General Mattis Is Wrong

“Wouldn’t a simple statement of solidarity with the protestors and his personal commitment to help heal the nation be the right use of the General’s reputation and leadership?”

Liberals Are Not Immune from the Pull of Authority

“My two cents is that respect for authority is neither a particularly conservative nor liberal trait. Rather, conservatives and liberals hold reverence for different categories of authority and the actors that operate within those spheres.”

Leaving Washington D.C. Behind—and a More Wholesome Life

“I think people want to know the story behind things. And I think part of what they’re buying into is the story of our family on our ranch. And so it’s beautiful to be able to share that in some small way.”

Can Free Speech Help Us Beat the Coronavirus? 

“We must remind those like Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and Susan Wojcicki that they should not silence ideas from the get-go because they fear that people are incapable of evaluating information for themselves.”

Conservatives Are Not the Only Ones Who Ignore “Facts and the Science”

“…this and countless other scientific findings led the President of the American Sociological Association—in his 2005 presidential address—to call upon members to, ‘Prepare to defend against the genomic data juggernaut heading their way down the pike.’”

Applying Coronavirus-style Problem Solving to Climate Change

“It’s by some cruel twist of fate that both the virus and climate change appear to be treatable by the deceleration of society.”

Higher Education Was Already in Trouble Before the Coronavirus

“The pandemic, while it has undeniably worsened the outlook for many institutions, has only exacerbated and brought into sharper relief some of the extant forces threatening to pop the higher education bubble.”

Principles and the Virus

“I know of no law forbidding our vanquishing of COVID-19; the knowledge of how to do so is therefore discoverable, and our foe is extinguishable.”

To Stand up to China, the West Must First Re-Discover Itself

“The lack of backbone displayed by Western leaders when dealing with China is symbolic of the malaise that has been gripping Western culture for decades.”

Civil Liberties Still Matter, Even During a Pandemic

“However, reconceptualizing fundamental rights is a serious matter. As such, we must guard against measures such as these continuing to shape our civic life, politics, and economies—even long after this pandemic has passed.”

Watching William F. Buckley and James Baldwin at Columbia

“At age 55, I was the oldest in my class of about 20 students, and most of my classmates were between the ages of 18 and 21.”

In Reply to McManus: Harping on Income Inequality Ignores the Data

“The Economist noted: ‘Just as ideas about inequality have completed their march from the Academy to the frontlines of politics, researchers have begun to look again. And some are wondering whether inequality has risen as much as claimed—or, by some measures, at all.’”

Why Demographics Are Not Destiny

“Both the Left and the Right are wrong that demographics are fundamental to the political future of America (or of any other society). Demographics are not destiny.”

How Libertarians View the Coronavirus Crisis

“For those of us who don’t want to go fully off-grid but concern ourselves with the expansion of the state, what might a pandemic response look like?”

Understanding the Viciousness of Jordan Peterson’s Critics

“McManus and Hamilton have each written exceedingly unfair reviews of Jim Proser’s recent book Savage Messiah: How Dr. Jordan Peterson Is Saving Western Civilization.”

The A.I. Challenge to the Free World

“Stephen Hawking, the renowned British physicist, brilliantly summarized the main problems associated with AI: ‘Whereas the short-term impact of AI depends on who controls it, the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all.’”

Erdoğan and Taking Advantage of Europe’s “Pathological Altruism”

“For them, the feelings of guilt over Europe’s past seemed to require inviting in the world to redeem Europe of its sins. Erdoğan is playing on this fear by referring to the Greeks as Nazis, attempting to destabilize the collective psyche of the European leadership.”

Interview: “Savage Messiah: How Dr. Jordan Peterson Is Saving Western Civilization”

“I was surprised at the depth of their depravity in attacking this innocent academic. He also provoked quite a bit of outrage by refusing to be silenced by them—and thank God for that.”

Why the “New Socialist Man” Runs into Trouble

“The knowledge encoded in the profit/loss system that emerges in a free market cannot be recovered by a socialist Leviathan.”

Jordan Peterson, at His Core, Teaches Personal Responsibility

“…for all of those who continue to maintain that Jordan Peterson is problematic because of something one of his followers somewhere did, keep in mind that—above all else—Jordan Peterson is a proponent of individuals taking responsibility for their own lives.”

The Travesty of Comparing Jordan Peterson to Hitler

“Not only ought Gabriel Andrade resist implying there are parallels to be found by Peterson and Hitler, but he also should keep in mind how many lives have been positively changed thanks to his ideas.”

The “Orthodox Conservatives” and the Essence of British Conservatism

“Orthodox Conservatism believes that the culture we have is held in trust—and that it is particular to us and our shared history; it is distinctive, not exclusive and is open to those who wish to join.”

The All Too Brief Life of the Father of Thermodynamics

“This ability to deliver scientific progress amid a sea of errors is more common in the history of science than one might expect.”

I Have a Suggestion for My Fellow Black Americans—This Black History Month

“By allowing this ball and chain of victimhood to stay attached to us (and having this mentality that everyone and everything is racist), we are doing ourselves and our ancestors no favors.”

“Three Big Ideas” to Transform How We Think

“In fact, I can think of three ideas that are so deep, so potentially useful, and so paradigm-shifting that widespread acceptance of even one of them would transform civilization for the better.”

The Predicament of Contemporary Academia

“As a result, liberal arts education has been dragged down into the world that it previously resisted, subjugating honest intellectual inquiry to cheap ideological attachments and the profanities of political activity.”

Reflections of an Ivy League Guy Sleeping Outside for His First Trump Rally

“It is a lot harder to vilify a man for whom 10,000 people will make a pilgrimage for only the chance to see him. I can say—despite my complaints—that I am proud and honored to have been among them.”

John Horvat: Social Media, Jordan Peterson, and “Returning to Order”

“I’ve read Peterson’s Twelves Rules for Life, and it has some points that I agree with. But I don’t think he goes far enough.”

John Kenneth Galbraith’s Newest “Crisis of American Democracy”

“What should concern us now, however, is an emergent threat: the risk of a ‘tyranny of the minority,’ powered further by artificial intelligence (AI).”

When Criminal Justice Reform Goes Too Far

“While bettering the criminal justice system is always laudable, measures that benefit criminal gangs run afoul of every principle for which our government stands.”

I Didn’t Vote for Trump But Strongly Oppose His Impeachment

“However, now—after seeing how he has been treated by Democrats since he was elected—he will have my vote in 2020.”

Before the March for Life, a Word to the Wise

“If the legal pro-lifer really wants to reduce the number of abortions, he or she has no choice but to argue for why abortion is wrong, why a culture in which abortion is frowned upon is superior…”

Killing of Soleimani Presents Opportunities, Not Just Challenges

“…it can be argued that the challenges emanating from this sequence of events have the potential to be turned into golden opportunities to clip the Islamic regime’s wings in the Middle East and beyond.”

Why the World Should Thank Trump for Killing Soleimani

“In the event that one is not overly familiar with the past forty years of Iranian history, I will explain what I mean; Iran—over the past four decades—has perfected a playbook of deceit that is so effective that nearly anyone has the potential of falling for it.”

As a Father to Two Special Needs Children—Weighing-in on Greta

“What is particularly insidious here is that not only is the victim a child, but, on top of that, it is a special needs child.”

Reflecting on the Start of a New Decade (and the Wisdom of Augustine)

“I must admit that as for many others, the last ten years were neither a singular triumph nor an unmitigated disaster. There were joys and sadnesses, the melody of life soaring high and crashing low. No one finds heaven on earth.”

Harold Macmillan, Roger Scruton, and Putting the U.K. Election in Context

“As Matthew Goodwin has repeatedly written, it is easier for the Conservatives to move slightly left on economic issues than it is for Labour to move right on cultural issues.”

The Best Argument For Jordan Peterson: My Friend, Fred

“But again, this aside, Jordan Peterson’s lessons of personal responsibility and taking charge of one’s life are actually helping people, which brings me to my friend, Fred.”

Why Everyone Is Talking about Josh Hawley

“Hawley talks again and again about the importance of community and criticizes those on both sides of the political aisle who pay fealty to an individualism that puts the self-creating individual at the summit of what constitutes the good.“

Actually, Bernie Sanders, Billionaires Should Exist

“To deny the billionaires of today the aspiration to earn as much as they do (let alone the right), we deny the possibility for everyone else to earn it tomorrow.”

Jonathan Haidt, Steven Pinker, and the Utilitarian Road to Nowhere

“American social psychologist Jonathan Haidt in his book The Righteous Mind has determined six fundamental human values: fairness, liberty, hierarchy, care, loyalty, and sanctity. But utilitarian thinkers have reduced people’s values to just care and equality.”

Getting a Tattoo: Often an Unwise Decision

“This past Mother’s Day, in a survey of over 3,000 mothers who had tattoos, 51% of them said if they had to choose between removing a bad tattoo and receiving a new piece of jewelry (of equal value) as a gift, they would choose tattoo removal.”

The Real Dividing Line in Our Culture Wars

“The dividing line in the culture war is not individualism vs. collectivism but, rather, peace vs. aggression. What are you willing to do to peaceful people, if they group in ways that you dislike?”

What Socialists and Creationists Have in Common

“[W]hile you see the products and services provided for you by the government, you are forever blind to the benefits that would have been provided by those same resources had the government not confiscated them…”

“Woke Capitalism” Needs to Wake Up to the Truth about China

“As Jim Geraghty writes, rather than importing our values, China is exporting its repression into our societies on the back of mass industrial theft and espionage.”

As a Columbia Grad, I Oppose This Latest On-Campus Activism

“It seems, unfortunately, today that there are far too few who are willing to defend Columbia University’s heritage, which so many now take for granted. “

Rep. Denver Riggleman: Bringing Internet to Rural Areas

“If you have to take your kids and you have to go into a parking lot of a library in order to do homework, that is not something that they want to have to deal with.”

What’s Next for British Conservatism?

“While material prosperity should be a priority, it shouldn’t be the only priority. Simply possessing the latest consumer goods won’t provide a meaningful life that comes from a sense of dignity, purpose and responsibility rooted in community.”

Conservative Media Falls Short in Covering Gang Crime

“There are white gangs, Asian gangs, black gangs, Hispanic gangs, and gangs of all nationalities. To focus only on illegal immigrant gang members, as many conservatives do, is to take the easy way out.”

Standing Up for Dave Chappelle

“Comedy is one of the world’s oldest arts because it appeals to our common, imperfect humanity: we all have flaws, and the best thing we can do about such a tragedy is to laugh about it.”

The Case Against Reparations

“Our justice system—and accompanying moral philosophies—wouldn’t dream of punishing people for the crimes of others, so why should our public policy?”

Georgia’s AG: Fighting Gangs and Human Trafficking

“Like [how] the Southern District of New York became the hub for financial crimes, the Northern District of Georgia has become a hub for online financial crimes and cybersecurity because it all runs through our network.”

Jordan Peterson: An Antidote to the Frightening Wave of Socialism

“But, fortunately, there is an antidote to Ocasio-Cortez’s socialist wave and its underlying mindsets: it is the hard work and dedication that Jordan Peterson so importantly describes.”

Black America Won’t Be Saved at the Ballot Box

“As a young black man from Southern California watching the systemic problems ailing my community, I believe that repairing our community must come from within, and the impetus is upon us to repair our culture before it’s too late.”

Gov. Brian Kemp: His Approach for Georgia

“And things like rural broadband, having quality health care, just a good quality of life, good ability to get a great education—whether it’s going into a technical field college or university setting. We had a lot of different options for folks, and we’re slowly moving the needle.”

America Is Too Lenient on Gang Violence

“Much to my dismay, conservative media journalists have conflated political stances against illegal immigration with criminal gang activity.”

Sen. David Perdue: Making Washington More Results-Oriented

“We need to go back to what the Founding Fathers and Mothers had in mind: a citizen-legislator—somebody that comes here, tries to get results, and then goes home and lets the next person try.”

Letter: In Reply to McManus—Misunderstanding Brexit

“These are the facts and historical context that any fair-minded and rational critic should consider before lambasting the majority of Brits who chose to forgo membership in the European Union.”

Jordan Peterson: A Libertarian Reading

“In a few hundred pages of personal anecdotes, lessons from history, and psychological expertise, Jordan Peterson offers strategies for the individual to rise and face life’s hardships, and to find meaning in the fight for personal betterment.”

Letter to the Editor: In Reply to McManus—Markets Are the Better Way

“Each day, I read an almost endless array of pro-socialist and anti-capitalist articles in a variety of newspapers, magazines, and web sites. Then I ask myself: ‘How could so many bright, well-informed authors be so apparently unaware of the actual realities concerning the history of socialism?’”

In Support of a Federal Anti-Gang Law

“A functioning federal gang prosecution law patterned after Georgia Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act would provide a direct legal outlet for FBI’s ‘increased focus’ on gangs.”

Review: “Big Business” by Tyler Cowen

“Pulling from history, economic data, and even psychology, Dr. Cowen explains why the anti-business sentiment is mistaken, how it originated, and what we should do about it.”

Georgia Life Act Has a Pulse, and It Beats Steady

“The larger issues with H.B. 481, such as the constitutionality of the timeframe for an abortion, the extent to which the law imposes an undue burden on a mother, or the attribution of personhood to an unborn fetus, have regrettably been conflated with false claims about mothers receiving abortions

Economic Inequality Is a Red Herring

“There’s nothing wrong with working for minimum wage, just as there’s nothing wrong with being unable to touch your toes— but if you wish to make more money, you must gain valuable skills, experience, and perhaps start stretching.”

Godzilla and Environmental Pessimism

“But like his philosophical cousins before him, Godzilla cannot exist because the ideas upon which he is based are incorrect. He cannot exist because pessimism is false.”

Georgia DA: Personhood Critics and the Heartbeat Bill

“Various Democratic District Attorneys in Georgia have recreated what the civil rights laws defeated, choosing political expedience over personhood.”

Climate Change Makes a Thanos of Us All

“We need a philosophy of problem-solving, not problem-avoidance. And yes, while stalling techniques are useful, their primary function is to give us more time to create active solutions, not avoid them all together.”

What Ben Shapiro Gets Right

“Shapiro’s book is a well-written and, at times, moving defense of Western Civilization.”

Steven Strogatz’s “Infinite Powers”: Science Is a Story of People

“Because we tend only to see the final product of an intellectual endeavor, it is easy to forget that even titans such as Archimedes cannot know the final answer before they get their hands dirty with the problem at hand.”

Op-ed: Ronald Sullivan and the Case for Due Process of Law

“This is not about defending Ronald Sullivan or any one individual; it is about affirming the right for lawyers to defend their clients without facing condemnation in their personal and professional lives.”

Stop Crying “Imperialism”; a Solution Is Needed in Venezuela

“To blame American imperialism, as some do, is to dismiss Maduro’s responsibility and to close our eyes to another socialist catastrophe.”

Is Trump Right on China?

“It’s time to rethink our trade relationship with China, and so far, President Trump has taken the appropriate measures to set it right.”

Camille Paglia and How We Debate Social Issues

“To dismiss topics that are being discussed by college students is a terrible political strategy. The left has professionalized gathering new supporters with questionable narratives—and classical liberals remain inert. We need to change that.”

Understanding Hitler’s Worldview (Part II)

“The risk in our increasingly polarized and tribally divided times is that these societies —ours among them—are thrashing around in a sea of hopeless liquid modernity and risk coming apart in a storm of violence.”

Interview with Former Rep. Tom Davis: Can Earmarks Fix Congress?

“In my district, I wasn’t just Tom Davis—I was ‘Mr. Woodrow Wilson Bridge.’ I was the guy who closed Morton and got 3,000 acres donated to the county. Those were the kinds of tangible efforts where people may not like my party, but they saw some redeeming qualities in me to keep me around.”

What Notre Dame Says about Civilization

“The destruction of Notre Dame has shaken our complacent belief in the permanence of things and the ability for our culture to last without care and cultivation. It reveals and reminds us that life is a fragile thing, and even the strongest bastions dedicated to the eternal can still be brought down

Understanding Hitler’s Worldview (Part I)

“[Werner Catel] called for the continuation of the Nazi program of involuntary euthanasia, saying, “…We are not talking about humans here, but rather beings that were merely procreated by humans and that will never themselves become humans endowed with reason or a soul.”

While the Media Talks “Varsity Blues,” Eerily Quiet on Gangs

“It is high time for media sources and critics to alike engage in serious introspection on their seemingly universal reticence—some might say outright resistance—to responsibly report and comment on gangs.”

Interview: One-on-One with Congressman Jody Hice

“There’s not a single one of us who has not made mistakes in our lives, and we have a number of people who were in jails and prisons that made mistakes that they regret.”

Pinna: Ocasio-Cortez on the Road

“In the face of all of this evidence, let’s give Cortez another shot and ask one more question: why does it even matter if she was hypocritical? Aside from her being an elected official that people are supposed to trust, it’s because she made it matter.”

Jordan Peterson and Christianity (Part II): Culture and Immortality

“In our lifetimes, many populations in Europe will age and shrink drastically due to their lack of belief in the possibility of transcending death, a belief that undergirds culture.”

The Future of Political “Gotcha” Moments

“The nail in a candidate’s political coffin, if not hammered in during their impromptu improv session, can also be found after the fact in what generally ends up being the ‘meatier’ section: the Q&A.”

In Further Defense of Nations: A Response to McManus

“As such, quiet gratitude rather than arrogant pride is, I believe, the right attitude to take towards the idea of the nation.”

Jordan Peterson and Christianity: Doctrine and Truth (Part I)

“Like Pelagius, Peterson thinks we can achieve salvation through our own efforts of will, without the grace of God. Like the aforementioned Gnostics, Peterson repeatedly argues that we each have a spark of the divine in us, so can manifest the divine here and now in our damned world of suffering.”

The Need for Nations

“It may sound trite to say so, but the national state is the worst way of arranging and governing human societies, apart from all the others.”

Pinna: A Partial Defense of Standardized Testing

“Real change has to be made with how standardized testing companies operate, but at its core, the standardized test is an excellent resource for universities and shouldn’t be removed.”

Prof. Randy Barnett Joins Erich Prince to Discuss “Con Law”

“You can’t take politics out of the judicial process because judges are human.”

Edward Said: Bad Scholar and Bad Character

“Changing the meanings of previously understood words is what ideologues do.”

First Days in Congress: Speaking with Rep. Denver Riggleman

“I had an old chief master sergeant tell me that when you first enter a job, you should keep your mouth shut for three months…So I have a lot to learn.”

What Howard Zinn Forgets

“No one people, nation or culture has a monopoly on the shadows of human nature. Historians influenced by Zinn and the story he tells should try to remember this.”

A Response to Matthew Pinna: The Market Is Not Top-Down

“The mere fact that ‘girl’ scooters exist proves that girls tend to have different preferences than boys when making consumer decisions.”

Analysis: Why Is Iowa a Purple State?

What factors make Iowa in play for both Republicans and Democrats?

From UC Berkeley to Washington, Radicalism Prevails

“In a democracy like ours, perception is reality, and the predictable outcome at Berkeley (and other places) was groupthink and radicalization because a fact-based discourse failed to materialize.”

Is Steven Pinker Wrong About Violence Declining?

“In many parts of the world, the anarchy came, and those like Pinker who insist otherwise should reflect on whether their claims really reflect reality, or whether they are simply bromides used by those thought-leaders who see the horror and turn away, looking to statistics as consolation against th

New Jersey Should Not Be Funding Local Journalism

“I agree that without local news, communities suffer from a dearth of necessary information, but this bill opens up way more problems than it fixes.”

Let Them Speak: Censoring Controversial Speakers Gets Us Nowhere

“If a speaker from the alt-right attracts listeners, it is useless to rush to block him. The better approach is to engage in deep thinking to determine why so many people are willing to follow these messages.”

Jordan Peterson, Women, and Who Really Makes 80% of Consumer Decisions

“The debate about gender and the market can’t be won with a single sentence—or with a single disputed statistic like the 80% figure. It is a nuanced discussion.”

Where the Alt-Right Really Comes From

“As Ross Douthat says, you may have hated the religious Right but wait until you see the post-religious Right.”

My Time in the Senate: An Interview with Saxby Chambliss

“Any bill that’s passed by 100% Republicans and no Democrats or 100% Democrats and no Republicans is not the best piece of legislation that could have been forged.”

Are Hispanics White? The Answer Has Sweeping Political Implications

“For those of us nerdy enough to frequent the annals of the U.S. Census, it was a jarring thing to hear that Puerto Rico is 70 percent white, according to its own inhabitants!”

A Review of Yoram Hazony’s “The Virtue of Nationalism”

“David Ben-Gurion, on the other hand, embodies the opposite view to that of the EU. Auschwitz was possible because there was one nation not in existence: Israel.”

Interview: Bitcoin Expert Jeffrey Tucker

“I was multitasking, and as one person came up to ask a question, I almost hit send on a $20,000 transaction. It was a scary moment, because if it happened there is no way to cancel it, and you have to say, ‘Listen, good friend, can you send it back to me?’”

“Canada in Decay” is True to Western Liberal Values: A Rejoinder

The final exchange in the debate between Professor Ricardo Duchesne and Professor Matt McManus over the book Canada in Decay and Canadian immigration policies.

Jordan Peterson and Living with My Disability

This article is more personal. I have some experience with Peterson’s description of suffering, and I believe that what he says is right.

A Reply to Matt McManus’s Review of “Canada In Decay”

“How do we explain, then, the fact that the liberal nations that fought Nazism, Australia, Canada, and the United States, had immigration policies aimed at preserving their ethnic heritage? Should we call European nations with liberal constitutions racist if their populations vote for immigration re

Why I Object to a “Left vs. Right” Political Spectrum

“The left, in all its myriad forms, is unified by a utopian vision and end goal. Meanwhile, ‘the right’ has no such vision and is made of many disparate groups who do not share end goals beyond a general opposition to the left.”

What They Don’t Tell You about Jeremy Corbyn

“Since the days of his childhood, Corbyn has been able to engage in his socialist and New Left fantasies, insulated from the catastrophic consequences when they are put into practice.”

Jordan Peterson Deserves a Closer Reading Than the Media Gives Him

“With that mindset, no wonder we feel bitter, absurd, and helpless. Even though we are living in great times, it is hard to see it.”

An Interview with Gov. Pat McCrory

“In fact, one of my best training grounds was being a basketball referee. That taught me how to make tough decisions under tough circumstances where you already knew you were going to make half the people mad most of the time.”

Everyday Economics: A Discussion with Professor Charity-Joy Acchiardo

“We try to take away the value judgments because economics is not designed to make a value judgment—that’s not the tools that we have in this discipline.”

Turning the Page in Brazil: An Interview with Priscila Chammas

“The vast majority of  political parties in Brazil have no ideology whatsoever. They are crony parties who trade political and economic favors, and they do so with those who offer more, regardless of principles or values.”

Why I Am No Longer a Brexit “Remainer”

“Those who proclaim their concern for the poor in the abstract nearly always find that they hate what the poor believe in when confronted with it.”

When It Comes to the Environment, Don’t Let the “Perfect Become the Enemy of the Good”

“There won’t always be a happy marriage between impactful environmentalism and progressive values. For environmental groups to weather the political storm, they’ll have to be able to tap sources of support from outside the left.”

What Dave Rubin Gets Wrong

Henry George takes aim at today’s popularization of so-called “Classical Liberalism,” a movement that fails to appreciate that, for true conservatives, economic priorities are always subservient to ensuring social order.

British Politics is Degraded and Divisive

“Trump’s visit saw him declare Britain to be in chaos (it is), that the current Brexit wasn’t what people voted for (it isn’t, and never would be), and that Boris Johnson would make a great prime minister.”

Political Philosophy for 2018: Talking with Prof. Christopher Freiman

“…Politicians are regular people who should not be expected to be more moral in their political lives than their economic lives. If we have this assumption that people in politics are no better than people in markets, this leads to a lot less confidence that political solutions will be any better th

All the Fake News That’s Fit to Print

“This means that fact-checking is the fake solution to the real problem of fake news. It helps debunk the simple hoaxes, but it only adds undeserved gravitas to fake political narratives and metanarratives.”

Do Poverty, Inequality, and Mobility Have a lot in Common? Not Really.

“Despite the stellar success of ordinary people lifting themselves out of poverty through production and access to a stable market, the income inequality narrative has come to dominate our current public policy discourse, especially in the United States.”

Friedman’s Take on Corporate Social Responsibility is Brilliant and Elegant—But Obsolete

Milton Friedman’s argument that corporations refrain from engaging themselves in social and political issues is compelling. But his argument likely doesn’t apply in today’s world, a world where “social consciousness” actually drives business.

The Real Questions You Should Ask Your Economics Professor

“Students are commonly told that Jesus was amenable to socialism because he favored the sharing of wealth. But in fact, he taught personal responsibility, voluntary charity, and doing good from the heart, not from someone else’s wallet.”

Literature Meets Identity Politics: Lionel Shriver vs. Penguin-Random House

“Writers should be judged first by the quality of the content of their prose, not their identity. If we forget this, then the world of literature will be much poorer, and with the loss of this source of consolation, so will we all.”

Licensing: From Barber Shops to Interior Designers, Restricting the Flow of Labor

Thinking about opening a barber shop, what do you do? If your answer was something other than, “Find out how to obtain the state’s permission,” you’re in for a surprise.

FEMA Director during Katrina: How Prepared Are We for Disaster?

“When you think about what we have here—FedEx, UPS, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Walmart, Costco, Sam’s Club—you’ve got all these places that have networks that can be used to do distribution…I truly see the private sector as part of the first responder network.”

Does Loneliness Give Rise to Totalitarianism?

“What prepares men for totalitarian domination…is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience of the ever-growing masses of our century.”

The Victim Culture Produces No Winners: Heather Mac Donald’s Take

“But instead, universities have been captured by a destructive ideology of victimhood that insists that to be a female or a minority on an American college campus is to be the target of endless, nonstop oppression.”

Free Speech on Campus (and Elsewhere): An Interview with Eugene Volokh

“Let’s say somebody is solidly in favor of abortion rights. She feels very strongly. Okay? But how can she learn to persuade anyone on the issue if she never even hears the other side of the argument?”

Misunderstanding Terrorism in Europe

Everywhere is becoming like Israel in the need to take security measures that encroach further and further into daily life. One would not be surprised if Israelis did not feel a sense of schadenfreude; after all, those who criticized Israel as a police state now indulge in the same practices.

Interview with Bush Sr. Speechwriter: From Barbara Bush to the Tea Party

“The Bush period and the approaches we took then, in many respects, are directly related to an era of American politics that came and went.”

An Interview with David Shafer: His Vision for Georgia

“People behave themselves for one of two reasons: love of God, or fear of punishment. There’s not much that politicians can do about the former, but the latter is in our wheelhouse.”

Interview with Yaron Brook: Why Ayn Rand Still Matters

“I really don’t see the Republican Party standing for a real free market or getting the government out of our lives on the domestic front. I don’t see them…proposing winding down the welfare state.”

Interview with Stephen Halbrook: The Supreme Court and Guns

A woman, who had a Pennsylvania carry permit, gets arrested in New Jersey, not knowing that they don’t issue carry permits—and certainly not to out-of-state residents.

Is College Still Worth It? No Easy Answers to a Simple Question

Professor Caplan thinks students are wise to the true value of a degree, which could help to explain why almost no student ever audits a class and why students spend only about 14 hours per week studying, down from 24 hours per week in 1961.

Cory Booker’s Critics from the Left Are Missing the Point

The cost of a Senate seat, after all, averaged $10,476,451 during the 2012 elections. With that steep of cost, can we expect anything other than politicians sometimes having to speak out of both sides of their mouths?

The British Far-Left, A Culture Acquiescing to Anti-Semitism

Israel deserves criticism like any state, but its castigation on the Left (and elsewhere) goes way beyond that. Israel is now the world’s demonic Jew, subject to the calumnies and libels Jews have faced throughout history.

The Conflict over Character Education: Faith Schools in Britain

In the UK recently, there has been concern over the growth in private and unregistered faith schools.

From Prague Spring to Now: An Interview with Larry Reed

“By and large, as people mature and learn about how the real world works, they tend to become more pro-liberty. I know a lot more former socialists than I know former libertarians.”

Returning to a Less Fragmented America

According to a Pew report, millennials, more than any other generation, are both averse to organized religion and distrustful of other people.

Congressman Jody Hice: Religious Liberty and Good Business are Benefits of Republican Majority

In a one-on-one interview with Merion West, Georgia Congressman Jody Hice explains how his background as a Christian pastor informs his worldview, his bill to address the taxpayer burden of former presidents’ pensions, and a possible solution to easing division in a polarized America.

Nixon Staffer: The Similarities Between Watergate and Mueller

“Normally you have separation of powers, and you have supervision, but with special prosecutors you don’t have very much supervision. That’s the great danger.”

Children Have the Right to Protest, But Leave Voting to the Adults

In our society, whatever is important is what we don’t let children do. They can’t buy property, take out loans, consent to medical procedures (with the glaring exception of abortion), or rent a car.

A Defense of the Lonely Senator from Kentucky

The Republican Party has been quick to turn against Senator Rand Paul, the only remaining principled conservative left in the Senate. Is this it for the Grand Old Party?

Why This Retired Fighter Pilot Wants to Be a U.S. Senator

My father was a blue collar worker. He was about to buy his first car: a Cadillac. Instead, he gave me the money to go to the school.

Freedom of Speech? Meet the British Border

Lauren Southern’s unjust arrest is a threat to freedom of speech and philosophy. This is an example of how the UK Border Force’s efforts to keep citizens safe are misguided.

What Government Oppression Really Looks Like: An Interview with Michael Malice

On how Americans talk about their political opponents: “I am delighted by our continued polarization and the fact that each side is unable to communicate with the other.”

Ben Carson’s Dining Room Set Is the Tip of the Iceberg

The HUD Secretary’s outrageous spending on tableware is causing an uproar because of how relatable it is — not its cost.

Three Free Speech Myths

Steve Simpson’s guide on how not to defend free speech.

The Winter Olympics was a Show of Great Unity and Healthy Patriotism

The Winter Olympics encourage a healthy feeling of patriotism that does not unleash the tiger of unthinking nationalism.

The Breakdown of American Culture: An Interview with Prof. Amy Wax

On the current trend towards drug liberalization: “Everybody I know who functions at a high level in society is fairly reliable and trustworthy. My husband is an oncologist, and I can tell you that hardworking cancer doctors don’t spend their free time getting high.”

From Super Bowl Champion to Conservative Thinker: An Interview with Burgess Owens

“These players are heroes to many young black boys. Sadly, now they see their heroes disrespecting the flag and our country. It’s a terrible message to send.”

Libertarians Are Going Nowhere, But Their Ideas Are

In many ways, libertarians can rest happily knowing that their ideas are winning, even if their candidates are not.

On Minimum Wage, Progressive Conservatives Miss the Mark

Concerning the Ontarian minimum wage, the lesser of two bad ideas is still a bad idea.

What Being “Tough on Drugs” Should Really Mean

Honest criticism of current drug policy should not justify a culture of permissiveness about drug abuse.

Interview: Actor Antonio Sabàto Is Running for Congress

“I came to this country from another country, and I struggled. I used to dream about coming to this country as a child, and I probably love this country more than many people who were born here.”

The History of Conservatism at Harvard College

Conservatism has a long history at one of America’s oldest, most prestigious colleges.

In Defense of the Koch Brothers

For the Koch brothers, an ideal government would support gay marriage, freedom of speech, balancing the budget, and capitalism.

Free Speech is Scary. The Solution: Speak Up

The parade of world leaders through the streets of central Paris made a mockery of the dead cartoonists; some of those who linked arms did all they could to suppress freedom of expression in their own countries.

Interview: Former Clinton Administration Official on Why He Became a Republican

“Rising tides lift all boats, whether they’re white, black, brown, yellow, immigrant, or any other American.”

Interview: Small Business Owner and Candidate for Governor Brian Kemp

“I know that you can’t completely run government like a company, but you can bring in business principles and processes.”

Interview: Austin Petersen’s Case for U.S. Senate

“I don’t spend my weekends at $1,000 cocktail parties with powerful people. I spend my weekends with my family going shooting on our farm and doing things that everyday, ordinary Americans do.”

I Didn’t Vote for Donald Trump. Now I Wish I Had

A “Never Trumper” has a change of heart.

Opposing View: The Necessity of “Legislating Morality” 

“The law in a democracy is never potent in a vacuum. It must work in concert with the people.”

An Interview with Geoff Duncan: Pitcher, Businessman, and Now Candidate for Lt. Governor

“I want to create a culture in Georgia as Lieutenant Governor that rewards good policy over good politics.”

The Left’s Silence on Iran Is Shameful

Most of Western media, leftist politicians, and feminist organizations have been largely silent on the recent protests in Iran. Sadly, this was to be expected.

Drug Testing Is Right for Wisconsin

Even liberals acknowledge that some individuals unfairly exploit welfare programs.

No, You Are Not the #Resistance

The final point is this, and it is something that the “resistance” needs to hear. You are not heroes.

Student Loan Forgiveness in Exchange for Delayed Social Security

A new Republican proposal would allow young people to choose a reprieve on student debt in exchange for delaying the age when they can collect social security.

Rep. Barr: Intelligence in the Age of Trump

This is a president who openly and personally attacks the leaders and employees of the agencies in the Intelligence Community. In turn, some of them respond by attacking him, and on it goes.

The Next Step for #MeToo

While the U.S. Capitol grapples with sexual harassment allegations, less than a mile away, thousands of travelers take for granted the wall-size posters of lingerie-clad models at the Victoria’s Secret in Union Station.

The Media’s Nostalgia for the Bush Years Is Ridiculous

This is the President, after all, who did everything that the modern Left supposedly despises; this is the man who sent thousands of young Americans to their deaths in Iraq.

An Interview with Aaron Spring

Aaron Spring, the Fordham student asked to leave a university coffee shop for wearing a “Make America Great Again Hat” answers whether businesses should be allowed to discriminate against people they disagree with politically and whether he would consider returning to the coffee shop.

Is Ayn Rand Affecting Trump’s America? An Interview with Steve Simpson

“When people say things like “Trump is the Ayn Rand presidency,” that’s nonsense. She’s influenced the political right, but there’s a big gap between Objectivism and what many conservatives believe.”

I’m Disabled, and I Despise Cultural Victimhood

As it currently stands, university campuses across the Western world are being eaten from the inside out – this is just an undeniable reality.

Reminder: White Nationalists and the Alt-Right are not Conservative

White supremacists have a mindset that America is a land of finite opportunity, and gains by others come at the expense of their own. But they are wrong.

Ukrainian-American: Democrats Are Turning Us Into Russia

My relatives in Ukraine live in a perpetual state of fear of war with Russia, a country that has oppressed Jews, Ukrainians, and defenders of freedom alike for centuries.

A Scientific Defense of Libertarianism

Libertarians should pride themselves as harboring the most consistent political philosophy.

Nationalism is a Terribly Defined, Misconstrued Term – and It’s Causing Problems

Why white supremacy and white nationalism are different.

The Vanishing Religious Roots of American Conservatism

Religious conservatives have made a political alliance with Republicans but are losing their influence.

What You Need to Know About Single Payer in California

Single payer healthcare could prove to be disastrous for California.

The Freedom Not To Associate, In Light of Charlottesville

If the private market decides to flee racism and terrorism, everyone will be better off.

The Myth of Institutional Racism

Progressives often blame difference of outcome on “institutional racism.” However, it’s always up to the individual.

Charlottesville: Violence, Death, and a Rusty Old Statue

“With malice toward none; with charity for all … let us strive to achieve a just and a lasting peace among ourselves.”—Abraham Lincoln

The Lost War Over Health Care

Despite the Republican Party’s tremendous electoral success, pseudo-conservatives have chosen to ignore basic economics in favor of their constituents.

Mighell: Don’t Confuse “Alt-Right” with Conservatism

This idolatry of racial origin as definitive of a person’s worth runs directly counter to the foundational principles of the American Right.

A 10-Step Guide to Fixing Health Care

If Americans can rally behind these common sense health care reforms, we can finally fix our broken system.

The Real Problem with the Mainstream Media

Public perception of the mainstream media is so low that President Trump’s petty fights with CNN might actually be helping him.

How the GOP Can Still Repeal Obamacare, and Why it Hasn’t Happened Yet

Despite the GOP’s failure to repeal Obamacare, there is still hope for market-based healthcare reform.

I’m a Gay Republican and I Hate Identity Politics

People should be judged based on the content of their character, not their identity traits.

Immigration is Going Down Under, Unless We Follow Australia

President Trump’s RAISE Act is far from the disaster the mainstream media has made it out to be.

Opinion: “Racist Police” and Crime Statistics

Statistics combined with context will tell a different story than your college professor might have you believe.

Scandinavia’s War on Babies with Down Syndrome

In Iceland, every single baby diagnosed with Down Syndrome is aborted.

The Labour Party and Accusations of Anti-Semitism

Are accusations of anti-Semitism against the British left justified? Yes and No.

The War on Meritocracy

Instead of blaming problems on centuries-old events, encourage young people to work hard.

A Defense of the Transgender Military Ban

It’s not bigotry. It’s just business.

Net Neutrality: The Solution to a Nonexistent Problem

Like most government regulations, it’s unnecessary and counterproductive.

Merion West Interviews Shiva Ayyadurai

Shiva Ayyadurai has decided to challenge Elizabeth Warren for her Senate seat. He makes his case in this Merion West interview.

The Final Word on Abortion

Can a new thought experiment involving hypothetically joining the National Guard shed light on the abortion debate?

Merion West Interview: Austin Petersen

Missouri Senate candidate and libertarian activist Austin Petersen joins Merion West to discuss trade, immigration and his decision to run for Senate as a Republican.

Journalists are Eroding Their Own Credibility

Journalism is supposed to be about reporting facts not writing misleading stories about those one disagrees with politically.

Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment

The House and Senate were always intended to serve different functions.

20 Years Later, Will the Supreme Court Help Terror Victims?

What does the Supreme Court have to say about suing nations hostile to the United States?

President Trump Must Aggressively Oppose U.N. Gun Control Agenda

Is it time for the United States to walk away from the United Nations’ anti-firearm agenda?

Baking Cakes and Religious Liberty

Would you force Muslim bakers to make cakes trashing the Koran or a black baker to make a cake promoting white supremacy?

Why Is America Still So Free? Maybe the Second Amendment Has Something to Do with It

Critics of gun rights seem to forget that guns are not, first and foremost, for hunting or preventing a burglary but rather to ensure that governments don’t get out of control.

What Comes After Dodd-Frank?

What did the Republicans actually do when they “killed” Dodd-Frank?

The Federal Government is Using Drug Policy to Erode the Second Amendment

Is the ATF trying to ensure that no marijuana “user” can purchase a firearm from a licensed dealer?

Ontario’s New $15 Minimum Wage Will Hurt Young People

The biggest victims of a minimum wage hike are always young people. In Canada, 58.4% of workers earning minimum wage are in the 15-24 age demographic. And besides, if you don’t want a minimum wage, build skills that are worth more to employers.

Ben Shapiro on the State of Modern Conservatism

“I think you have to separate conservatism from reactions to the Left. I don’t think they’re quite the same thing. Conservatism is starting to get more popular because of reaction to the Left.”

Welcome to America, Now Give Us Your Laptop and Cell Phone

Congressman Bob Barr (R-Ga), in this Merion West op-ed, discusses how the federal government is increasingly claiming the right to search people’s laptops and smart phones.

Tim Young is Transforming Conservative Comedy

Conservatism and comedy don’t usually go together. Tim Young is challenging that notion.

Derbyshire: How Race Continues to Shape Politics

A Prime Minister of Singapore famously said: “In multiracial societies, you don’t vote in accordance with your economic interests and social interests, you vote in accordance with race and religion.” Is this true in America?

Richard Lindzen: Thoughts on the Public Discourse over Climate Change

MIT atmospheric science professor Richard Lindzen suggests that many claims regarding climate change are exaggerated and unnecessarily alarmist.

India After 70 Years of Socialism

This new Indian political party is all about the free market.

Nepotism: Kushner is Nothing Compared to Hillary Clinton

Critics may be correct to call nepotism on Jared Kushner. But the same must also be said for Hillary Clinton. If she hadn’t been married to the President, no one would know who she is.

Mindy Kaling’s Brother: Pretending to Be Black to Get into Med School

Vijay Chokalingam, the author of Almost Black – How I Posed as Black to Get into Medical School and brother of comedian Mindy Kaling, sits for an interview with Merion West to discuss affirmative action.