Enforcing Patriotism, Suppressing Dissent: America’s Neglected Free Speech Crisis
Picture this. Students in schools paid for with tax dollars are ordered to stand as a sign of respect for the federal government. If they sit or kneel, they face…
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Reason and Myth in Postmodernity
Irrational and mythological thinking have been gaining adherents recently. In his essay “Conservative Rationalism has Failed,” Yoram Hazony insists that an overemphasis on reason has corroded the moral and spiritual…
Imperial Diversity
The concepts of diversity and inclusion have great cultural power in American society right now. Among their proponents, however, there is a failure to recognize these concepts as part of…
Scouting Without Faith
I met my husband the summer before our junior year in high school. He had already achieved the rank of Eagle in The Boy Scouts of America (BSA). In those…
Education: An Economy of Exclusivity
Readers over the age of fifty probably remember the 1970s as a depressing decade of stagflation, an oil crisis—and disco music. They may recall Studio 54, a New York nightclub…
Who Speaks for Muslims in Colorado?
At this year’s Western Conservative Summit in Denver, John Andrews, former Colorado senator and founder of the Centennial Institute, reignited the discussion of Islamism in Muslim-American communities. Many local publications,…
Teaching Uncertainty: Cultivating a Heterodox Classroom and Life
To quote someone a lot smarter than me, “I know that I know nothing.” This is the Socratic paradox which states that the only thing I’m certain of is my…
From Syria to Venezuela: Mystifying Left-Wing Support of Dictators.
If you’ve worked with left-wing activists, you have probably met many caring and intelligent people who genuinely believe in democratic values. Until it comes to foreign policy, when many leftists…
Marx vs Foucault: Reflections on History and Power
Karl Marx and Michel Foucault are two of the most cited critical theorists in the world today, simultaneously revered or reviled, depending on who you talk to. Their work has…
LGBT Rights in America: Incremental Progress, Ongoing Problems
To a significant number of Americans, the quest for gay rights is either over or mostly over. On 28 June of this year, for example, the Atlantic ran an article by James…
Is Misogyny Holding Western Women Back?
The term misogyny comes from the Greek word μισογυνισμός that translates as hatred of women. Very few would deny that gendered stereotypes and prejudices exist in the western world, but…
London’s Knife Crime Is Not the Fault of the Black Community
Surely no culture punches further above its weight than Jamaica. No country of its size—few countries of any size—could claim to have left such a profound mark on the modern…
Hong Kong’s Fight for Freedom
Last month, I was called to jury duty. Here in the US, many people, instead of seeing jury service as a quintessential civic duty, regard the obligation with impatience, exasperation…
Conservatives Ought to Contend with Marcuse’s Ideas
The threat of totalitarianism is ubiquitous in modern political rhetoric. The term has almost become a banality. With everything from Tucker Carlson and his guests discussing the squad to the…
On Being a Proud Indian
We are little men serving great causes, but because the cause is great, something of that greatness falls upon us also.—Jawaharlal Nehru, 1946. The resurgence of muscular Hindu ethnonationalism under…
The Case For Culture
I would like people to speak more openly about culture as a causal phenomenon. In addition to citing biological and socio-economic factors to help us make sense of the world,…
In Defence of the “Adversity Score”
Affirmative action has been one of the most persistent flash points within higher education. White and Asian students often lament that this practice may deprive them of a spot in…
Weighing in on Abortion as a Man
The issue of abortion remains a key battleground in today’s culture wars. Whether you oppose or support abortion, you put yourself in the line of fire, especially as a man.…
