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Politics
Two Predictions About Elite Power
Governing elites have always loathed and feared outbreaks of democracy. Occasionally, everyday people take it into our heads to force…
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Politics
Biden? Trump? Seriously?
Unless an earthquake occurs in American politics, this time next year, Joe Biden and Donald Trump will be the presidential…
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Media
Our Declining Trust in Institutions
Well, it’s no deal; you can’t sell that stuff to me. Ah, no deal; I’m goin’ back to Tennessee. –…
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Law and Government
Declining an Invitation to Have ‘Poetic Faith’ in Scientists
…a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which…
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Law and Government
Original Prejudice and a Sufficiently Narrow Mind
Pretending that there is only one point of view aborts even the possibility of analysis. For that, all you need…
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Law and Government
Dear Government: There is a First Amendment
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the free acts of speech. – Benjamin Franklin…
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Education
The Dialectics of College
As historical dialectics go, it may not be an earth-shattering phenomenon, but that doesn’t mean it’s not important or even…
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Foreign Affairs
The Strangest and Most Consequential Two Days
In what ranks as perhaps the strangest sequence of events in memory, early Saturday, Yevgeny Prigozhin turned on his long-time…
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Media
Social Media Joins the Unholy Alliance
“Censorship was now [1649] more severe than at any time in England’s history, following the general rule that censorship increases…
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Politics
The Fourth Estate Joins the State
The (at least) tacit conspiracy between the Clinton campaign and the FBI to smear Donald Trump was something that cannot…
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Law and Government
Durham Report Demolishes Claims of FBI, Clinton Campaign, Others
I realize that my vacation (Viva España!) puts me behind the curve on the topic of the Durham Report, but…
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Media
A Bad Couple of Weeks for the U.S. Press
It’s been a bad couple of weeks for the U.S. news media. The reputation of the Fourth Estate has long…
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Science and Technology
New Studies on Pro-Female/Anti-Male Bias: ‘Effects many times larger than race’
New research provides evidence that people generally have a positive implicit bias towards women and a negative implicit bias towards…
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Social Issues
Fatherless U.S.: A Nation in Decline
U.S. society and culture today are in decline. It leaps out at us from the pages of newspapers and television…
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Media
Anti-objectivity in the News Media: Terrible Journalism, Sound Business
There is a company of these crazy-headed coxcombs that, when they take a fancy by the end, are wiser in…
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Media
OTOH, Democrats Love the Press
Last time I wrote about the frank dishonesty of the Washington Post on the subject of domestic violence. The paper…
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Media
Washington Post’s Dishonesty about Domestic Violence
The news media find themselves in much-deserved ill repute. The public generally neither likes nor trusts the legacy media. A…
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Law and Government
A Few Lessons from the Tyre Nichols Killing
About the Tyre Nichols killing, at least four things are true. First, the behavior of the police strongly argues –…
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Law and Government
The Guardian: Making Up ‘Facts’ on Parental Alienation
For at least two reasons, the domestic violence establishment has always feared and loathed the concept of parental alienation. First…
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Media
The Truth Matters: Even when the powerful say it doesn’t
In 2021, journalist Terry Glavin wrote the truth about the Great Indigenous Mass Graves Hoax in Canada. There were none…
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Education
The Empress Wears No Clothes: The Education Department assaults civil rights
By James Moore, Spiro Pantazatos and Kursat Pekgoz Catherine E. Lhamon is the current Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department…
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Law and Government
As a Matter of Fact, the Parrot is Dead
Does it matter? The truth, I mean; does it matter? Eric Olson spent his adult life trying to learn the…
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Law and Government
Eric Olson: A Man for Our Time
In 1953, Eric Olson’s father, Dr. Frank Olson, died; Eric was nine years old. Frank Olson was a bacteriologist working…
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Foreign Affairs
Crisis!
What’s the latest crisis? Nothing new, actually; it’s been around so long that it can’t meaningfully be called a crisis. …
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Media
Landmarks Then and Now
When, in 1971, Daniel Ellsberg wanted to publicize the Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task…
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Law and Government
Twitter and Facebook: Willing Cat’s Paws for the FBI?
Elon Musk’s release of internal Twitter communications to Substack journalists, Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss is stirring the political pot…
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Politics
The Midterms: Continuing Decline
“And we fall, face forward, fighting on the deck.” – John Davidson The two major parties continue to fail the…
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Law and Government
The Military Selective Service Act Still Discriminates on the Basis of Sex
Well, that worked. It wasn’t easy and it required a level of intellectual legerdemain that must have been challenging to…
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Media
The Left’s Abandonment of Leftism
All the world now knows that Elon Musk has completed his purchase of Twitter and that he did so because…
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Politics
New York Times: Pretty Much All Republican Candidates = Donald Trump
I’ve said it many times: the person who can master Donald Trump’s appeal to disaffected voters but without his serial…
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Foreign Affairs
46 Organizations Around the World Demand UN Action on Domestic Violence Against Men
We all remember the images. Russia had just begun its invasion of Ukraine and the Ukrainian government was scrambling to…
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Education
Another Reason to Flee Chicago: the Schools
Many of Chicago’s black residents will skip this year’s upcoming elections. They no longer believe Democratic governments are able to…
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Politics
Many Chicago Blacks Sitting this Election Out
The issue of violent crime may at last be having an effect on black American’s voting habits. In that deepest…
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Politics
Giorgia Meloni and the Continuing Rejection of the Left
The election of Giorgia Meloni to Prime Minister of Italy and the elevation of center-right parties to majorities in both…
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Media
David Geary on Conaboy’s ‘Blank Slate’ Woke-ism
In my last piece I assailed the ideology-ridden nonsense purveyed by one Chelsea Conaboy with which the New York Times…
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Media
The New York Times: So Wrong on Mothers and Motherhood
Perhaps the salient feature of Chelsea Conaboy’s 4,000-word screed in the New York Times is its title, “Maternal Instinct is…
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