October 24, 2020

The Enduring Relevance of Whittaker Chambers’ Witness

Whittaker Chambers’ Witness provides relevant, instructive, and inspiring encouragement for those currently engaged in the fight against today’s ascendant Left.  

August 2, 2019

The Real Equivalent of World War II

America in 2019 does face a serious challenge to freedom and self-rule: radical progressivism. 

October 12, 2018

How to beat the mob and win the midterms

Will the vicious, nihilistic left take over Congress in November? Not if Republicans follow this strategy.

June 14, 2018

To Trump's critics: Where's the beef?

America is becoming great again, right before our eyes.

September 2, 2015

Gun Lives Matter

Many leftists may doubt the existence of a transcendent human soul, but they are certain, if only at an unconscious level, that rather than mere inanimate tools, guns indeed have a life force of their own.

June 14, 2015

Disconnect: Kirsten Powers' <em>The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech</em>

The Silencing is not an argument for the progressive worldview or the efficacy of Democrat policies. It is a call for civility in our public discourse, and as such is welcome, though Ms. Powers acknowledges that it will likely go unheeded by the totalitarians she targets. 

March 23, 2012

President Obama and Statistical Imbalances

If 20% of the world's energy is too much for the world's largest economy to consume, then how much is too much for a government to extract from its most productive citizens?

March 16, 2012

Social Justice: Catholic Virtue or Trap?

Recently, Father Peter J. West argued here that conservative distaste for the term "social justice" is misplaced and is essentially a product of co-optation of the term by the left. His argument is unconvincing.

February 14, 2010

Is Iran trying to provoke Israel to attack it?

There may be method to Ahmadinejad's madness.

January 26, 2010

War as Political Correctness By Other Means

Now we have Army Surgeon General Eric Schoomaker asserting that there was no way that Hasan's superiors "could have predicted" Hasan's murderous rampage.

January 19, 2010

A One-Step Program for Better Airline Security

President Obama's recent (if only implicit) acknowledgment of the need to at least talk about terrorism in a less abstruse, more immediate manner is a small but welcome development.

April 3, 2009

A Kinder, Gentler War on Terror?

What's up with the junking of the term "global war on terror"? Quite a lot.