Politically and increasingly culturally America today is a 50-50 country, more polarized than at any time since the Civil War, and last November’s midterm elections did nothing to resolve the polarization; in fact, if anything it more definitively deepened it, and it has now been topped off with the indictment of Donald Trump, which will […]
The Republican Commitment to America
For many months now I have been suggesting that it is long overdue for Republicans to update the Newt Gingrich-led Contact With America of 1994 that led to the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years. Last November, at the National Conservatism Conference, the Edmund Burke Foundation well […]
Let’s Drill Down a Bit on CRT
As I have previously noted, Texas is among a growing number of states that are passing laws to keep Critical Race Theory (CRT) out of public school curricula. Others are doing so through executive rule. These are good first steps, but as some have pointed out, we need to pay closer attention to what it […]
Your Turn, Mr. Prime Minister
Now the British Tories have spoken, Queen Elizabeth has confirmed, and Boris Johnson is the new Prime Minister of the UK. We will now see if Mr. Johnson can Brexit, or will he follow the failure of the last two of his predecessors and possibly, God forbid, default to a Jeremy Corbin-led Labor government. He […]
Is Socialism Truly Making a Comeback?
In an American Spectator article in 1976 entitled “Socialism: An Obituary for an Idea”, Irving Kristol wrote “The most important political event of the twentieth century is not the crisis of capitalism but the death of socialism. It is an event of immense significance. For with the passing of the socialist ideal there is removed […]
Surprise, Surprise: We’re in a Culture War
A couple of weeks ago, Gerald Seib wrote, “The border wall fight is more than a border wall fight. It has crystallized a deep cultural divide, between those happy with the evolving face of America and those alarmed by it”. Well, duh, this has been the obvious state of affairs for the past 50 years, […]
The Perversion of Truth
Not only do women like Dr. Ford, who bravely comes forward, need to be heard, but they need to be believed.—Sen. Maize Hirono (D), Hawaii One of the most troubling aspects of the Kavanaugh nomination debacle, aside from the refutation of the jurisprudential presumption of innocence and the burden of proof, was the exposure of […]
Properly Identifying the Radical Left
In commenting on what the mainstream media are calling the “civility feud” recently manifest in the confrontations of Trump administration members and supporters in public venues and on college campuses by progressive protesters, Daniel Henninger has suggested that the political question of this moment is something more, which is: can the Democratic Party control its […]
China’s Puzzling Recognition of Karl Marx
China’s recognition of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx is strange on several levels. First, it comes during what many believe and the facts support in large measure, which is a capitalism-inspired economic miracle for the country. Second, it honors a man whose economic theories were largely discredited and whose philosophical grasp […]
Pursuing the Truth Among a Conflict of Visions
Ron Trowbridge of Lone Star College has written an insightful piece in SeeThruEdu entitled “To Those Who See My Writing as Slanted: Every Piece of Writing Has a Slant”, in which the key takeaway of his thinking is this: “In politics, there is no such thing as objective truth. For liberals and Democrats, facts are […]
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