James Bowman has written perceptively in the current edition of The New Criterion about the applicability of the Overton Window to the unreality so prevalent in woke ideology. I’m probably way behind the rest of you, but the Overton Window concept was unknown to me until recently, and it refers to the idea developed by […]

The pundits have been quick to mark Liz Cheney’s resounding primary defeat in Wyoming as the “end of an era” for the Republican Party, a “mass repudiation of the Bush-Cheney-McCain era”, as noted by one GOP stalwart, and soon to be “remade in Trump’s image”, according to another.  Maybe so, but remember that Liz Cheney […]

We’ve all had notice from several directions about the creep of ideological indoctrination in the hiring practices of major corporate firms, primarily manifest in the proliferation of “diversity, equity, and inclusion”  (DEI) statements in corporate human resource policy, much of which of course is a method of virtue signaling as a defense against shakedowns by […]

Predictably, close in the wake of the horrific school shooting in Uvalde comes the “do something!” crowd, soon followed by renewed attacks on the “gun lobby”.  And all of this periodic outburst will again end in frustration until we develop the political courage to focus intently on the underlying cultural problems that are producing holes […]

As I watch and listen to the reports and commentary coming in from Canada on the protest of the Covid-19 vaccine mandates by the truckers who call themselves the Freedom Convoy, I am struck by the degree to which this confrontation is in many ways representative of the ultimate conflict we face.  This is way […]

Every where one looks nowadays, there seems to be a sense of restlessness and lack of contentment in the country and there is no shortage of good and bad advice as to how to address this malady.  Maybe Peggy Noonan described it best in her commentary on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attack.  To […]

My friend Vern Wuensche has penned a timely essay on the corruption of words and how the Democratic Party makes use of this corruption in its political propaganda, successfully, I might add (see “Democrats Use Words as Weapons”, 8-27-21). This essay reminded me of one of a few years ago by Michael Knowles of Prager […]

Peggy Noonan has written a very provocative piece entitled “The Old New York Won’t Come Back”, in which she contemplates the very realistic notion that, after one year, the pandemic has shaped a fundamental transformation of what we can consider “normal”.  And I don’t mean anything like the flippancy of the term “new normal”; I […]

As President-Elect Joe Biden builds his core leadership group with cabinet and sub-cabinet appointments, it is still unclear exactly what his top policy priorities will be, beyond removing as much of the Trump legacy as possible.  After all, we saw very little of him during the campaign, particularly when it might involve probing questions from […]

Over the past several months I hope that I have made it clear that I believe the only solution to our cultural crisis is for the liberal establishment and the institutions that they dominate to take a leadership role in addressing the contradictions and false narratives that plague our social discourse.  This should start with […]