Category: COMMENTARY

In Defense of Neo-Traditionalist Zoomers

All trads are a little ‘fake.’ The truth is, all traditionalism in our wretched age is—given what the previous generations have taken from us.

Freedom, America, and Robert Nozick

It has been 50 years since Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia was published. This is a good year for both libertarians and conservatives to re-read it.

Showdown Over A Kiss

Showdown Over A Kiss

If left-wing activists with their allies in the media and state bureaucracy turn an imprudent kiss into an unpardonable social crime, then the consequences could be grim across society.

September 21, 2023
Hushed Horrors

Hushed Horrors

When the mask slips, people catch an unvarnished glimpse at what is going on behind all the soothing, medicalized language: killing people.

September 21, 2023
Biden Strikes Out at the UN

Biden Strikes Out at the UN

With each embarrassment outdoing the last, the next fourteen months could well overshadow Biden’s lackluster UN performance. In the end, however, it is America and its people who will be diminished.

September 20, 2023
Keir Starmer: All Mouth and No Trousers 

Keir Starmer: All Mouth and No Trousers 

Starmer claims that “smashing” criminal gangs sneaking people across the Channel should be treated “on a par” with terrorism. However, it’s hard to avoid the suspicion that the violence of his rhetoric is directly proportionate to his lack of sincerity.

September 19, 2023
Conservative Realism Is the Way out of the Ukraine Quagmire

Conservative Realism Is the Way out of the Ukraine Quagmire

A sane Ukraine policy would put an end to an inhumane war, save Ukrainian statehood, defend European peace and prosperity, and counteract the terrifying prospect of long-term Russo-Chinese consortium spreading throughout Eurasia.

September 19, 2023
Mexico’s Royal Eagles: On Verastegui’s Christian Patriotism

Mexico’s Royal Eagles: On Verastegui’s Christian Patriotism

Appealing to both Left and Right, Verastegui describes economically exploitative elites as the same people benefitting from a breakdown in family and traditional morality.

September 18, 2023
UAW Strike: A Challenge to Biden

UAW Strike: A Challenge to Biden

With working-class voters increasingly looking to Republicans on election day, the UAW simply cannot remain glued to the Democratic Party and expect to survive as an organization.

September 17, 2023
What’s Smart and Dumb About Smartphones?

What’s Smart and Dumb About Smartphones?

A technological marvel that spans centuries of discovery and invention but which fuels narcissistic indulgence rather than a source of inspiration to invent the future.

September 17, 2023
A Defeated Ukraine Is a Real Threat to Western War Sceptics

A Defeated Ukraine Is a Real Threat to Western War Sceptics

President Zelensky and others have issued apparent threats to those who would cut off military and monetary aid.

September 17, 2023
BBC Verify: Economical With the Truth? 

BBC Verify: Economical With the Truth? 

The gulf between the facts and the ideological position of BBC fact-checkers is palpable.

September 15, 2023
What Happens in Lampedusa Doesn’t Stay There

What Happens in Lampedusa Doesn’t Stay There

You can’t escape the terribly inconvenient truth: if these illegal migrants had weapons, their hostile trespass onto the sovereign lands of others would be unambiguously seen as an act of war. 

September 14, 2023
Rugby World Cup Opening Ceremony: The Good Taste of Clichés

Rugby World Cup Opening Ceremony: The Good Taste of Clichés

For 20 minutes, woke audiences looked on, wondering, where was the diversity? Why the display of hatred toward Macron?

September 13, 2023