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 […]

In July I noted that what The Wall Street Journal had described as our “Jacobin moment” cannot be stopped by an accord between the far left and traditional conservatism, because traditionalists no longer have a seat at the table.  The mobs in the street and their fellow travelers are not about to listen to them […]

Two essays really struck me over the past week.  One was by Daniel Schwammenthal, director of the AJC Transatlantic Institute, writing from Brussels as “a worried European friend”.  His concern is that America’s future leaders in our universities have been spoon-fed two theories born of Marxism, postmodernism and critical theory, which in combination divide society […]

The editorial board of The Wall Street Journal has described this current period of social unrest America’s “Jacobin moment” because it has the fervor and indiscriminate judgment of the revolutionary mind.  The guillotine isn’t as yet in use, but the impulse is the same–to destroy careers, livelihoods, and reputations.  And lately, the mob’s emphasis is […]