On his blog, Pat Buchanan asks how an America so divided, with half its citizens believing it to be evil, come together again? He writes (abridged): Among a good slice of America, especially the young, the West is guilty of centuries of racism, imperialism, colonialism, slavery, sexism, ethnic cleansing, religious persecution and cultural genocide against […]
You Thought You Were Scared Before? Read This
Gilbert T. Sewall, co-author of After Hiroshima, explains to readers at The American Conservative what he calls an “electronic retreat from reality and nature,” that is “a pressing, accelerating challenge to social cohesion and general mental health.” Sewall writes (abridged): More than 50 years ago, media critic Marshall McLuhan predicted a revolutionary shift from printed […]
Ratings: Tucker on Top
Despite an ongoing feud with Media Matters that has scared some sponsors, Tucker Carlson’s ratings are on top. Cockburn of Spectator USA writes: There have been endless, gleeful reports about Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show losing nervous corporate advertisers. Far less attention has been paid to the fact that, for the last few days, his […]
Is America in a Cold Civil War?
The Claremont Institute asks that question and offers an event to look into the matter directly. Is America in a cold war? Many prominent thinkers think so. And not without reason. As the culture wars of the past several decades have intensified, the country now finds itself deeply divided. Americans disagree not just about politics, […]
President Trump, What do We do About Amazon?
Emily Manna is a policy analyst at Open the Government, a non-partisan coalition that advances policies that create a more transparent, accountable, and responsive government. At The American Conservative, Manna digs in to Amazon’s growing relationship with the Department of Defense. Led by CEO Jeff Bezos, Amazon is increasingly providing cloud and artificial intelligence services to the […]
Mama, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
Self-Reliance, Grit, Courage … “The world needs more cowboys” was the University of Wyoming marketing slogan last summer, emphasizing that anyone with the above caliber of traits could be a cowboy. Remember several years ago how Evergreen State and the University of Missouri caved to identity politics demands? Not so the University of Wyoming, cheerily […]
Are We Entering a Another “Jacksonian Period”?
Steven Hayward, author of The Age of Reagan, says: Most discussion of Andrew Jackson falls into predictable ruts, defaulting automatically to cliches that reflect more on our own time than his. Whether America’s entering another Jacksonian period depends upon understanding the first one more clearly, and we have Bradley Birzer to thank for taking up the spirited […]
Jerry Falwell Jr. Slams Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s Fake News
In an apparent attempt to divert attention from her friend Rep. Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitic comments, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unleashed a fusillade against Jerry Falwell Junior, in which she 1) got the facts wrong, 2) misrepresented Falwell’s words, and 3) portrayed his statements out of context. In the words of President Trump, this was fake news […]
Progressives at Odds with Reality
Defunct actor Jussie Smollett, a card-carrying member of the “progressive” resistance, now stands accused of fabricating the incident in which he claimed to have been attacked by two white men armed with bleach and a noose. Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson is not unlike many big-city police chiefs. Mr. Johnson has the “thankless task of […]
A Postmodern Plague Destroying America
Is America facing a toxic postmodern plague? Well, yes. Toxic imbecility, argues Thaddeus G. McCotter in American Greatness, is consuming our country from within. And where is the hot zone where this imbecilic chicken first came home to roost and now appears ready to cook our goose? An educated guess is that it’s wherever educators […]
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