Ben Voth

Ben Voth


  • Free Trade has Failed to Reform China

    May 28, 2025

    Free Trade has Failed to Reform China

    Hopes that insurgent free markets would revolutionize and liberate the largest communist nation in the world have largely failed. 

  • Jesus and Academia

    April 18, 2025

    Jesus and Academia

    It is the life, teaching and resurrection of Jesus that brings us to the persistent yet peculiar moment of Jesus versus the intellectuals in 2025.

  • Understanding President Trump’s joint session address

    March 5, 2025

    Understanding President Trump’s joint session address

    An exceptional display of Trump’s tenacity and seemingly boundless ability to feed upon the negative energy of his opponents to build an ever more triumphant sense of patriotic vision.

  • How Two Southern Methodists Helped Make King’s Dream Come True

    January 20, 2025

    How Two Southern Methodists Helped Make King’s Dream Come True

    One of the most serious problems we face as a nation in 2025 is recovering our national history. 

  • Honoring President Carter by reducing American homelessness

    December 30, 2024

    Honoring President Carter by reducing American homelessness

    The death of President Carter is an excellent occasion to examine the unique American problem of homelessness. 

  • Deconstructing the Mythology of January 6

    November 7, 2024

    Deconstructing the Mythology of January 6

    The deliberate misrepresentation of events surrounding January 6 was the primary pretext to the longstanding argument against Trump’s election -- suggesting he is a "threat to democracy." 

  • Ted Cruz conducts a candidate fact check clinic

    October 17, 2024

    Ted Cruz conducts a candidate fact check clinic

    Ted Cruz demonstrated the potential for political candidates to conduct their own fact checking rather relying upon journalist moderators in these critical public debates.

  • President Trump Won the Debate with Harris

    September 12, 2024

    President Trump Won the Debate with Harris

    Trump, who does not often score an outright win in any candidate debate, gave among his strongest debate performances by using humor strategically and dominating the hostile moderators.

  • The Democrats and Racism in History

    July 31, 2024

    The Democrats and Racism in History

    Democrats live in a fantasy world where only Democrats fought for and achieved racial equality. The truth is different.

  • Academic Presidential Rankings

    July 15, 2024

    Academic Presidential Rankings

    President Biden has been protected as a ‘great’ President since he was elected -- even though his deficiencies were obvious to the public. 

  • Solutions to the Debate Moderator Problem in Presidential Debates

    June 26, 2024

    Solutions to the Debate Moderator Problem in Presidential Debates

    The impending Presidential debate on Thursday is colliding with a recurring rhetorical problem: the Presidential debate moderators. 

  • Hugo Black and Democrat Racism

    June 16, 2024

    Hugo Black and Democrat Racism

    Hugo Black's inclination toward racism and bias ran much deeper than most are aware. 

  • Criminal Convictions and the Presidency

    May 31, 2024

    Criminal Convictions and the Presidency

    Pursuing political prosecutions of candidates in order to interfere with an election is dangerous and likely to boomerang rhetorically upon those seeking their own ends in this abuse of power.

  • Palestine is Free. . . In Israel

    April 26, 2024

    Palestine is Free. . . In Israel

    The rhetoric of genocide surrounding the Israel/ Hamas conflict must be clarified to arrive at a peaceful conclusion that saves the lives of Arabs and Jews in the region. 

  • The Meaning of Malcolm X’s Death

    February 21, 2024

    The Meaning of Malcolm X’s Death

    The life, political rhetoric, and death of Malcolm X remain a growing source of misunderstanding about Black/White relations in the U.S. 

  • December 25, 2023

    Jesus’ Birth and Christian Nationalism

    The recent three queens of America’s finest universities testifying to their ethical flexibility about rhetorical calls for “genocide of the Jews” are a crystal-clear reminder of how dangerous false knowledge is and how it grounds the deadly genocides of any age we care to look at. 

  • November 17, 2023

    Responding to Bin Laden’s Letter to America

    It is important to create rhetorical responses for overcoming the relentless assaults on human freedom originating in this ongoing war against the “two Satans” of America and Israel.  

  • November 1, 2023

    The New Global Anti-Semitism

    It is a moral duty now -- especially with regard to American academic life -- to stand up alongside our Jewish brothers and sisters against deadly  anti-Semitic rhetoric.

  • October 9, 2023

    The Rhetorical War for Israel

    With hundreds of Israelis killed and many more kidnapped or injured by the anti-Semitic Arab supremacists of Hamas, the rhetorical war for Israel has begun.

  • October 5, 2023

    Kevin McCarthy and the Political Culture

    The loss of Kevin McCarthy is only the beginning of a public looking to take revenge against its reactionary intellectual culture that shows them such contempt. 

  • August 3, 2023

    100 Years Against Our Imperial Presidency

    Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge represented an important break in the emergence of an imperial Presidency embodied by Woodrow Wilson.  

  • May 28, 2023

    The Politics of Jesus

    The American demand to separate Christianity from the State is consistently the prelude to unfettered injustice.

  • January 24, 2023

    Reducing the Deficits of the Federal Government

    It is possible to reduce the ongoing deficits of the Federal government.  The simple mechanism for doing so is tax cuts.  

  • November 4, 2022

    Biden's Rhetoric and Political Violence

    Much like President Woodrow Wilson in the midterm election of 1918, Biden begs the American people to punish the opposing party and clear a political path for his internationalist visions.

  • July 30, 2022

    Overcoming the Rhetoric of Jacobinism

    Saving the American republic requires a savvy mastery of language that is the root of all political power.  

  • February 6, 2022

    Afro-Idealism in Black History Month and January 6

    What does Malcolm X have to do with the events at the Capitol last year? A lot, it turns out.

  • October 6, 2021

    The Good News about the U.S. Budget Deficit

    Though our congressional members are shocking in their contempt for the fiscal sanity their citizens must accept every day, our nation remains economically resilient and a more probable candidate for economic well-being than Russia or China.

  • August 17, 2021

    President Biden’s Genocide

    The refusal to understand the nature of jihadist Islam will lead to massive deaths and a resurgent effort at a Caliphate. We need to do better next time around.

  • August 6, 2021

    America is Structurally Anti-Racist Redux

    Confederate racists and CRT advocates are as one in their contempt for rational arguments against racism.

  • July 7, 2021

    Remembering the 2016 killing of five Dallas police officers

    Today is the five-year anniversary of Micah Xavier Johnson's attack on Dallas police officers and the larger world of nonviolent political change.

  • June 19, 2021

    Juneteenth and Texas History

    A look at how black Americans' enduring "Texas independence day" came to be.

  • June 4, 2021

    The Presidential Response to the Tulsa Riot

    Despite what the mass media -- not to mention Biden -- would have you believe, the Tulsa riots have long been rebuked by Republican politicians. 

  • February 20, 2021

    Understanding the Texas Energy Crisis

    The Texas energy crisis exposes the whimsical contradictions of green energy.

  • November 26, 2020

    Democrats Must Regret Messing with Texas

    Democrats have told themselves many tall tales in the recent years. Messing with Texas comes with a cost and the growing clout of Texas to shape an American future of red politics stands squarely in the door of blue political ambitions. 

  • October 27, 2020

    Should Christians Vote for the Vain and Boastful?

    Moses, King David, Matthew, and St. Paul all think so. 

  • October 8, 2020

    Pence won, and the Commission on Presidential Debates continues to lose

    Republicans need to start pushing back at all the rigging coming from the Commission on Presidential Debates.

  • October 3, 2020

    It's Time to Reform How Presidential Debates Go

    As a nation, we can do far better than what we all saw this past week.

  • July 22, 2020

    America is Structurally Anti-Racist

    America is the most important and successful anti-racist political project in human history. 

  • April 29, 2020

    The Anti-Trump Fantasy Theme

    The president is falling victim to the same abuse campaign the press visited upon Sarah Palin more than ten years ago.

  • February 8, 2020

    America Rising

    The major political events of the first week of February portend an incredible seismic shift in American and ultimately global politics.

  • January 22, 2020

    America’s Most Successful Human Rights Campaign: The Pro Life Movement

    The American pro-life movement may be one of the greatest successes for human rights and general well-being occurring in the 21st century.

  • December 27, 2019

    Trump and the Pharisees

    Our public sphere is brimming with unflinching public teaching of hatred of the President. 

  • November 28, 2019

    The Red Scare and Whistleblowers

    The real danger to our present republic is the ascendant interpretive hypocrisy of our American elite.

  • October 30, 2019

    The rhetoric of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's death

    Baghdadi was a common enemy of all of humanity. Any failure to unite in victory over his death is more than appeasement of his genocidal vision; it is tacit approval.

  • October 16, 2019

    How Can We Fix Debate in America?

    Debate done correctly can open minds rather than close them.  

  • October 1, 2019

    International Blue Privilege Meets the Trump Wrecking Ball

    Don't the obvious contradictions of the 27th crisis of the Trump presidency point to an even greater need to further wreck the world of blue privilege? 

  • August 21, 2019

    Academia and Republican Presidents

    Today, academia has a thorough and profound reactionary supremacist view of Republican presidents.

  • August 10, 2019

    Killing One Another

    The terrible goal of the Jacobin media and the political eltes is to tear us further apart and incite us all to further acts of violence. 

  • July 30, 2019

    Understanding the Democratic Presidential Primary Debates

    The strengths and weaknesses of the Democratic debate process.

  • March 27, 2019

    The Poison that Is Killing America

    The extravagant intellectual fantasy themes carried out by our official interpreters are a threat here at home and abroad.

  • January 21, 2019

    Martin Luther King, Jr. and the War without Violence

    Here is how to honor Martin Luther King the proper way – the way the left refuses to.

  • December 24, 2018

    The War on Christmas

    Christmas is a staggering counter-symbol against the powerful and elite who have so consistently ruled humanity with barbaric ruthlessness.  

  • December 8, 2018

    Mis-Underestimating Bush

    The day of mourning for President H.W. Bush provided a brilliant moment to outshine the the liberal media's nonsense.

  • October 29, 2018

    The Intellectual Culture of Anti-Semitism

    One of the surest paths of ideological unity that Americans and the world can discover is a common cause against anti-Semitism. 

  • August 19, 2018

    And They Wonder Why We're Angry

    The interpretive classes remain largely confused about why "flyover country," is so angry. Here is why.

  • June 17, 2018

    The Jesus Fallacy

    Liberals are invoking Christ to cast aspersions against Donald Trump's immigration policy. That's not how this works.

  • May 2, 2018

    Two Saturdays in April 2018

    Until the nation embraces and returns to the grace embodied by a fine first lady, we will find ourselves more deeply embittered and divided than ever. 

  • April 28, 2018

    The War on Reason

    In many respects, the American public has been living within a war against reason.

  • April 4, 2018

    Civil Rights Renaissance to Remember Martin Luther King

    A look at the real civil rights movement of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the false ones that have followed suggests that the real one is in need of revisiting.

  • February 21, 2018

    The Habits of IndigNation

    A concerted team of political reactionaries guides the national conversation from crisis to crisis.  Call it "IndigNation."

  • December 24, 2017

    The politics of Christmas

    Christmas is a political reset.  It is a euphoric chorus of delightful sound after an era of disturbing silence.

  • December 5, 2017

    The Disingenuous Tax Cut Debate

    The data is clear, and the debate can be about only the choices the Congress makes in spending taxpayer money.

  • August 31, 2017

    Hurricane Harvey, or Katrina II

    The mediated struggle over the meaning of Hurricane Katrina twelve years later is a testament to how the media culture of America has changed for the better.

  • July 12, 2017

    Commander in Chief Trump defeats the ISIS Genocidaire

    Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead.  If our intellectual elite truly had genuine empathy for Muslims, this would be a moment of great celebration.

  • May 4, 2017

    How many Americans does Obamacare kill each day?

    Bringing light to the ACA’s role in reducing American life expectancy could go a long way toward not only revitalizing our democracy with a free press, but also saving American lives.

  • February 17, 2017

    The Left Silences Debate

    An ideological Jim Crow has emerged in the nation whereby those who voted for Trump are called to collective silence while those who oppose Trump stand, lecture, and judge.

  • January 31, 2017

    President Obama’s Genocide

    The Obama administration is directly responsible for the genocide carried out by ISIS.

  • December 12, 2016

    The revenge of Sarah Palin

    In many ways, a woman made Donald Trump. 

  • October 21, 2016

    Ain't I a Woman?: The Political Economy of Sexism and Racism

    Look at what happens to those women and minorities who stray from the litany of Democratic ideological markers.

  • September 25, 2016

    Is Hillary Clinton Losing the 2016 Election?

    Even if the mainstream media refuse to ask it, the question is palpable among the rest of us.

  • June 15, 2016

    On Islamic terror, words do matter

    Sorry to disappoint you, Mr. President.

  • April 23, 2016

    Reforming Academia in 2016

    Colleges and universities are creating intellectually stifling environments comparable to Jim Crow America. 

  • January 13, 2016

    Comparing Obama's 2016 SOTU and Bush's 2008 SOTU

    It was ironic to hear Obama lament the partisan state of things now, in light of the way he responded to President Bush's SOTU in 2008.

  • January 2, 2016

    American Goodness and Generosity in the Aftermath of a Texas Tornado

    This is not the evil America bitter leftists so often portray.

  • December 7, 2015

    President Obama's theophobia

    President Obama’s longstanding preaching of a civil religion serves to feed the forces of terrorism here at home and abroad.

  • November 4, 2015

    Can the Presidential Debate Format Be Un-Wrecked?

    The first step is to get the media out.  It's a tall order.  

  • October 11, 2015

    Killing Christians and Jews

    The steadfast refusal of our intellectual culture to take seriously the global and American agenda of violence against Christians and Jews is important and immoral.

  • August 7, 2015

    Winners and losers for the RNC Cleveland debate 2016

    The discovery of winners and losers is an important part of the debating process.  For this most recent debate, there are a number of apparent winners and losers.

  • May 20, 2015

    Reforming American Presidential Debates

    During elections, there is arguably nothing more impactful on public opinion than presidential debates. The stakes of these events make the reform of presidential debating imperative.  

  • March 22, 2015

    The Vindication of George W. Bush

    Pretending that the ultimate evil is American or Israeli troops confronting violent supremacists is aid and comfort not only to America’s enemies but the enemies of innocent humanity.  

  • March 3, 2015

    The Rhetoric of Genocide

     The problem of genocide is beginning to envelope the administration as it limps toward the finish line of the second term.

  • December 25, 2014

    Merry Christmas from Texas to the World

    The gift of Texas oil is a gift that keeps on giving and stands in contrast to the lumps of coal dished out by the Federal government.

  • December 11, 2014

    American Deceptionalism

    Jonathan Gruber is no exception. We are besieged by an intellectual elite intensely committed to a grand design of American Deceptionalism.

  • November 6, 2014

    Five easy pieces of a brighter future

    Political steps to take for a better world led by a strong America

  • August 25, 2014

    Escaping the American Onlookership

    The news media, entertainment, academic, and government nerves centers of the nation pulse with deception designed to nudge the public into agreement with self-evident falsehoods

  • June 29, 2014

    Stopping Global Supremacists

    Today, Republican isolationists like Rand Paul can join leftist reactionaries in denouncing all manner of intervention.

  • May 1, 2014

    How the Civil Rights Movement Dismissed its Early Heroes

    Turning race into a political weapon for the left

  • January 19, 2014

    What Republican Senate Control Means for America

    Contrary to what you may have heard, there is in fact a pronounced difference between the two parties...and especially how they govern.

  • December 25, 2013

    Mary's Christmas

    All of the discomfort surrounding Christmas and education is unfortunate because of the powerful moral and ethical content of the Christmas story.

  • December 14, 2013

    A Definitive History of Media Bias

    How journalists have shaped (and twisted) the American narrative -- from an academic press, no less!

  • November 22, 2013

    Don't Blame Dallas for JFK's Assassination

    It's time that a great American city shook off the vicious caricature pinned to it by a demented Marxist killer.

  • November 10, 2013

    The Blue Elite and Female Lives

    The world is racing toward patriarchal domination at a rate unmatched in human history, thanks to sex-selection abortion supported by feminists and the Blue Elite.

  • October 16, 2013

    The War between Texas and DC

    The natural gas revolution is cutting the heart out of progressive plans for the new millennium.

  • October 4, 2013

    How Government Shutdowns Help America

    Media hyperbole notwithstanding.

  • August 25, 2013

    Christianity and Martin Luther King's Dream

    To divorce Martin Luther King's Christianity from his speeches -- and from the Civil Rights Movement in general -- is folly.

  • July 11, 2013

    Blue Privilege

    The real class system is based on ideology, not race.

  • April 23, 2013

    Restoring the Image of President George W. Bush

    A four decade long tradition of demonizing Republican presidents since Richard Nixon reached its apotheosis with George W. Bush

  • January 19, 2013

    In the Energy Debate between Palin and Obama...Obama Lost

    Our president shows his ignorance on energy, over and over again.

  • September 16, 2012

    It's Not Bush's Fault

    Let's dispatch some misconceptions about our 43rd president.

  • December 2, 2011

    The Fall of the House of Frank

    The imminent retirement of Barney Frank from the House of Representatives is an important rhetorical marker for one of the most significant financial disasters in U.S. history.

  • September 11, 2011

    The Sounds of Silence on 9/11

    A famous left wing professor has called for silence to commemorate 9/11. When hate crimes occur on college campuses, I have never heard a college professor call for silence in response to the loss.

  • January 30, 2011

    The EPA's Mess with Texas

    The EPA is messing with Texas in ways that threaten to disrupt the biggest jobs-producer in the United States.

  • September 2, 2010

    Iraq: The Good War

    After seven years of war, it is important to remember the good accomplished by these efforts.

  • August 27, 2010

    Top Ten Things America Has Done for Muslims

    Many passionately believe the argument that the United States is mistreating Muslims. Nonsense!

  • June 19, 2010

    The reality of international soccer - anti-American bias

    Zero games are played outside the US where the referees are not actively working to undermine, embarrass, and hinder the American team.

  • May 7, 2010

    American Fossil Fuels: The New Alternative Energy Source

    The explosion of the Gulf oil platform this past week is a useful crisis for those advocates who hope to further restrict and prevent the extraction of fossil fuels in the United States.

  • March 14, 2010

    Backing Away from the Wall

    It is an article of faith on the left that a "Wall" separating church and state justifies hounding religion out of the public square. But the federal courts have been backing away from that metaphor.

  • November 11, 2009

    Victims, Villains, and Heroes

    Since the Vietnam War, the media has designated soldiers as falling into one of two unfortunate categories: victim or villain.

  • July 9, 2009

    Hating Palin

    As a communication professional I have largely been at a loss to explain the judgments being drawn about Governor Palin by allegedly expert pundits.

  • May 3, 2009

    The Tortured Rhetoric of the Reactionary Left

    The reactionaries of the Left are celebrating their own unique sense of jingoism that has come to dominate their political community since Vietnam.

  • April 4, 2009

    Churchill's Finest Hour?

    The profound anti-American bigotry that animates the thinking and writing of Professor Ward Churchill is a normative fixture of American academic life.

  • January 24, 2009

    George W. Bush: The Case for Greatness

    Great Presidents are defined by their times.

  • December 19, 2008

    Bloodless Sunday

    Ironies abound in the Baghdad shoe-throwing incident.

  • October 21, 2008

    Palin's People Power

    One of the more awkward realities of this election is Governor Sarah Palin.

  • September 18, 2008

    Obama and Bush agree on more than you think

    Despite his avowed aversion toward the policies of President Bush, it is useful to examine important arguments made by Senator Obama which are similar and supportive of President Bush's own policies.

  • June 3, 2008

    The Congressional Energy Crisis

    The regulatory relationship that Congress has relentlessly sought to impose on the energy sector of the American economy has had deadly effects on the supply of gasoline in the United States.

  • March 9, 2008

    Monsters, by Ben Voth

    Ironically and sadly, Samatha Power's calling Hillary Clinton a "monster" undermines the important task to which she has been so consistently and effectively dedicated -- the prevention of genocide.

  • January 29, 2008

    The Global Gettysburg

    President Bush's State of the Union speech signaled an important first step in the establishment of his legacy. In many respects, the speech reflected a transformation in the American Presidency from domestic protector to global idealist.

  • October 18, 2007

    Eradicating Religion in Burma

    The evolution of noted atheist Richard Dawkins' perspective on religion into action took a bold step forward this past month in the sovereign state of Burma -- officially known as Myanmar.

  • September 17, 2007

    Brian De Palma and Rape in Iraq

    Famed film director Brian De Palma (Scarface, The Untouchables) has completed and publicly screened a new film, Redacted, detailing allegations of a rape by US soldiers in Iraq.

  • March 31, 2007

    The Current Meaning of Vietnam

    Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam. These are words we here with some regularity in today's media. The metaphorical lens through which all contemporary military conflicts must be viewed is Vietnam.