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The False Dichotomy of Progress vs. Reaction January 22, 2025
Vladimir Kontorovich and Eugene Kontorovich recently argue in the Wall Street Journal that America is going through a period of political “openness” regarding various deceptions that government, media, corporate, and education leaders have perpetrate...
Burying Settler Colonialism's Ideologiekritik January 07, 2025
In his clearly written, concise little work , Adam Kirsch has done for settler colonialism what John Fonte did for “transnational progressivism” at the turn of the century, Peter W. Wood and Phillip W. Magness did for The 1619 Project in 2020, and Jo...
The Life-Affirming Vitality of Raw Milk December 12, 2024
I've been drinking raw milk for almost 15 years, ever since I made a sudden switch from veganism while visiting my sister in Europe. At the time, she was living in Germany and getting raw milk from a local farmer. I remember mocking her, interrogatin...
The Exploitation of Compassion November 08, 2024
For a book about the perils of empathy’s excesses, Allie Beth Stuckey’s newly released Toxic Empathy (2024) is rife with respect for empathy itself.Christian compassion, Stuckey acknowledges, is a positive force in our daily lives. When we see a frie...
Another Fine Mess November 08, 2024
Oftentimes I wonder how much better off America might’ve been to have elected Mitt Romney in 2012. Not that I’m particularly a Romney fan—the man’s a milquetoast finger in the wind, if a competent one, and would probably have made an underwhelming pr...
The Progressive Case for Parenthood August 19, 2024
What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice is an ambitious book that addresses arguably the most pressing questions of both our time and all time: Are people good? Is life worth living? What does it mean to be a parent? What is motherhood, what...
Mugged By Reality July 19, 2024
“Hence like most people who have substituted the habit of delusion for reality, they became hysterical whenever the root of their delusion was touched, and reacted with a violence that completely belied the openness of mind which they prescribed for ...
Our Brave New World July 17, 2024
Around every sin that our nation has committed — sins we are committing now and will commit in the future — will be found bad people posing as good, knowingly twisting the plain meaning of widely held values to cover and excuse the ugliest of ends an...
When Liberal America Went Bonkers May 29, 2024
Nellie Bowles used to be on the right side of history. In 2020 she was a New York Times journalist, covering the San Francisco tech scene. She was also a true believer in the progressive cause. She and her colleagues went to work, not to “tell dry ne...
Relentless Resilience of Media Renegade Nellie Bowles May 27, 2024
It took 30 minutes and five seconds to read the introduction of Morning After the Revolution, written by former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles.It took exactly the same amount of time to listen to the audiobook, which I did because I wanted to ...
Why Progressives Want to Forget George Floyd May 24, 2024
Leonard, the hero of Christopher Nolan’s Memento, cannot form new memories. This poses something of a problem when you’re trying to find the guy who killed your wife. Her brutal murder is the last thing Leonard remembers, and he has been hunting for ...
A Year To Remember-Even if We Don’t Want To May 20, 2024
It’s hard to even think of 2020—a year filled with scams and causes and revolutions and the word unprecedented—as anything other than a big joke. Think about Nancy Pelosi kneeling down for nine minutes in Ghanaian kente cloth. Who was that for? Or wa...
Progressive Attitudes Towards Sex Are Incoherent May 07, 2024
Recently the actress Victoria Justice made waves by saying that her experience filming a sex scene was uncomfortable. This was catnip to a particularly voluble slice of the People Who Yell Online, those who think that movies should simply not have se...
'Dune' and Progressive Media Illiteracy May 06, 2024
Leftists have completely lost the plot — literally. Every time a new blockbuster film is released, the discourse predictably devolves into a debate over its problematic themes. This is nothing new; leftists have been highly critical of media depictio...
