November 11, 2022

COVID Amnesty is a Distraction from What’s Coming: Greater Censorship and Atomization

A lot of outrage followed from The Atlantic’s recent proposal for a “Pandemic Amnesty.”  It’s more than justified, given the essay’s cavalier attitude towards everyone who suffered greatly under cruel shutd...

October 31, 2020

How Mail-In Voting Makes Social Pressure So Much Easier

Emotional extortion seems to be more widely and openly practiced these days. Just when I thought it couldn't get much worse, a young woman on TikTok proudly displayed the story of how she and her five sisters had "intense exchanges...

September 15, 2013

The Dynamics of Tyranny

Before George Orwell wrote 1984, there was Yevgeny Zamyatin's We. If you're not acquainted with Zamyatin's novel, you will find it an extraordinary study on the dynamics of tyranny. Zamyatin, a Russian, wrote We around 1921. It was immediately banne...

July 6, 2013

Gays at the Supreme Court: Somewhere Under the Radar

Last week I decided to observe the scene under the rainbow flags at the Supreme Court building.  As a Washingtonian, I had that dubious option. But I had to resist the urge to stay away.  As a supporter of marriage, I wasn't in the mood ...

June 12, 2013

Freedom of Association and the Boy Scouts of America

Guaranteed to fail. That is the net effect -- and possibly the intent -- of the decision late last month by the national board of the Boy Scouts of America to allow participation by openly gay scouts, while maintaining a de jure ban on avowedly homos...

April 11, 2013

The War on the Family Enters a New Stage

Welcome to a brave new "national conversation" that proposes not simply to redefine the family, but to eliminate it. MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry recently shocked millions with her brazen TV promo spot urging us to get rid of the idea that kids b...

April 6, 2013

Ten Q&A on Same-Sex Marriage Canards and Evasions

Forces pushing for genderless marriage are a wellspring of fallacies and unanswered questions about the consequences.  Let's explore some of them. 1. What's love got to do with it? Nothing.  Romanticizing this debate by claiming that an...