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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What Happened to Greatness?
Greatness is waning. Does the fault lie with the culture at large or the elites charged with shaping it?
Response to Ellmers
Students and parents are well aware of the repressive tendency Ellmers identifies, of the ideological literati littering our college campuses.
America at Her Best: A Tribute to Clarence Thomas
If this great man, with firsthand knowledge of the worst of America, forgives his country, then might we forgive her, too?
How to Be an Elitist
What matters is that we educate the young for greatness, regardless of whether they will ever encounter opportunities for it.
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Can Poetry Save a Nation?
Our memory, our identity, and our everyday speech are inextricably bound to the poetic traditions of our people.
Make America Beautiful Again
Classical architecture illustrates the virtues of our regime and our tradition. It must be protected against those who despise both.
What the Right Gets Wrong About Art
If "beauty is the battlefield on which God and the devil war for man’s soul," who is winning?…
Slow Horses: A Must Watch
I like British crime series, a genre in which the Brits put their Yankee cousins…
America Wakes Up to Woke
The rainbow fabric of woke is now fraying. Wokeness was envisioned as a new reboot…
Fight the Mob
As with Communism a generation ago, today we are engaged in a conflict between two incompatible ways of life.
A Patriot Speaks
Good character is a manifestation of the capacity of citizens to govern themselves. It is the true ground on which…
A Phone Call from President Trump
Although Trump enacted many important policies, it was his personal virtues that inspired a movement. I received a call…
The Persistence of the Lie
One must begin at the beginning—the personal decision not to live by lies. From that wise and liberating decision, all…
The Appeal of Ron DeSantis
In the Republican party the great fault line is between those who believe we are in a cold civil war…