It is the folly of intellectuals to both dismiss and, on the other hand, overstate the effect of popular culture on America and her citizens. If politics is indeed downstream of culture, a more precise, dispassionate analysis of current treads is needed.
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The Death of the Ford Tradition
The EV push was never about market demand. It was about compliance. My family’s story proves what we lost.
Woke Hasn’t Died. It Has Regrouped.
After retreating to lick its wounds, the vanquished opponent almost immediately began to resurface.
Washington
Great men are the ambassadors of Providence sent to reveal to their fellow men their unknown selves.
O Captain, My Captain!
When Lincoln was among us, he said, “one of Plutarch’s men talked with us face to face.”
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How to Win the Information War
Once we got answers to the right questions, that’s when the real wins started piling up.
The Right Needs a Tech Philosophy
If all we offer the culture is barking “no” at new technologies, the progressive technopoly will remain firmly in place.
The Mob Now Guards the Marble
The revolutionaries who toppled bronze generals now clutch their pearls over a ballroom renovation.
Pope Leo’s Borderless Gospel
Pope Leo XIV’s borderless gospel recasts globalism as compassion, emptying “pro-life” of all meaning.
Language Without Mind
The problem isn't that these machines are evil. It’s that they’re not us.
Hold On
The reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death reveals a culture where barbarism is virtue and sanity itself is under siege.
How the Left Stole the American Stage
The progressive Left has turned American theater into a monument to groupthink.
The Public Lands Paradox
Federal lands open to the common citizen a kind of freedom once restricted to the aristocracy — but at a steep cost.
Our Post-Deportation Future
Peachy Keenan surveys the scene from Los Angeles and muses on the nation we will have once the invasion is repelled.
What, to the New York Times, Is the Fourth of July?
The principles of the founding are a universal moral standard, or they are an exercise in rank hypocrisy. The Times cannot have it both ways.
A Summer Reading List for the Anti-Woke
A number of recent political books, and a few time-tested classics, can guide us through the present American crisis.
The Captive Mind Revisited
Why are intellectuals so willing to partake in totalitarian systems? From the Soviet Union to woke America, the patterns are the same.