November 8, 2021

Saving the Rainforests Will Not Stop Global Warming: Here's Why

Saving the rainforests will not stop global warming -- and here’s why Apparently, at COP26, world leaders agreed to a deal to end deforestation of rainforests, ostensibly to stop global warming. This deal relies on implicit arguments that...

November 3, 2021

COP26: World Leaders Tell Us: ‘Do as We Say or We’ll Let You All Die’

COP26 in Glasgow got off to a good start with world leaders telling billions of ordinary people to, in effect, “Do as we say or we'll let you all die.”  The melodramatic hyperbole knows no bounds: apparently, we should all be org...

October 19, 2021

Islamist Terrorism Again: A Herd of Elephants in the Room

The latest Islamic terrorist attacks in the West -- in England on Oct. 15, and Denmark two days earlier -- were shocking, given that the war on terror was supposedly behind us. These attacks raise questions. At this point, ther...

September 1, 2021

Joe Biden: From hero to zero in just seven months

Imagine a celebrated running quarterback playing the last — and most significant — game of his career. At a critical moment, he fumbles and drops the ball. Suddenly it's all over for him and his team. Well, that's what Joe Biden n...

July 24, 2021

Traveling the Quiet Road to Tyranny

Could we be traveling a quiet road to tyranny? Steve McCann’s recent summary of what we now know about the events on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021, indicates why we should all be very worried about the US, leader of the free world, sliding ev...

July 15, 2021

Why Joe Biden Won't Defend Women from Transgenders

The issue of transgender ‘rights’ is hot right now because more people are beginning to understand that they are waging a rights war on women and girls.  Recently, at the Wi Spa in Los Angeles, a man escorted by two self-professed...

May 29, 2021

Wokeness and Victimhood

If there’s a topic the woke like talking about most, it’s themselves.  This is not unusual for people obsessed with their own well-being, status, and influence over others. Which pretty much sums up the mindset of most of the woke....

April 19, 2021

Climate-Alarmist Junk Science and the Base-Line Fallacy

With the composite president known as “Joe Biden” pushing ahead with implementing the Green New Deal, the climate-alarmist industrial complex will be ramping up its propaganda to scare as many people as possible into believing that Planet...

March 21, 2021

Woke Progressivism Will Crash and Burn -- and Here's Why

Wokeness is an offshoot of Christianity.  So historian Tom Holland argues in Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind (2019).  If he had followed his argument to its logical conclusion he would have arrived at the same conclusion I did -- t...

March 6, 2021

Children need Protection from Transgender Activists

Transgender ideology is a threat to children, and also to their right to childhood.  Childhood should be a time of innocence and learning to grow into an emotionally well-adjusted, intellectually competent, morally capable adult.  Transgend...

February 6, 2021

We already know the solution: democracy. But what really is the problem?

While the Big Tech giants are busy trying to remove from the internet all references to a stolen election in 2020, I believe that the key to understanding what is really the problem here is to view this as part of the age-old struggle betwe...

September 6, 2020

How the Progressive Left Ruined Education

The education of the young is quite rightly a serious concern to parents, teachers, and everyone else who believes that what children get from school is a major factor in their success in life and their commitment to making a positive contribution to...

September 5, 2020

Round One Goes to Trump

The photos of a dignified Trump standing amid the ruins of Kenosha present the defining moment of the first phase of the campaign.  Despite his opponents predicting that his presence there would inflame matters, Trump did what any good leader sh...

August 25, 2020

How Marx Failed

Amid all the hysterical grievance-mongering we hear today from the radical progressive liberal-Left, the specter of Marxism is barely concealed.  The surface veneer of ‘oppression’ outrage is an imperfect disguise for the rhetoric of...

August 19, 2020

The Dems Are the Dogs in Trump's Dog-Whistle Politics

It’s no secret that Donald Trump is delighted about Joe Biden’s candidacy and the selection of Kamala Harris as running mate.  Biden is so obviously undergoing a cognitive decline it seems almost unfair to criticize him for his failu...

August 12, 2020

What’s Wrong with ‘Equality’?

Imagine you are assisting at a children’s party in a neighbor’s house, and the hosts put you in charge of dishing out the Jell-O. You’ve got a large bowl of green and a large bowl of red.  You look at the eager kids lining up a...

August 5, 2020

The West is One Vast Social Engineering Experiment

Many decades ago, I worked for a while in one of the old Victorian lunatic asylums in England.  They were by then called ‘long-stay mental hospitals’ and the patients were all highly institutionalized, conditioned by years of dull ro...

July 6, 2020

Dismantling the cancel culture

The cancel culture has now infected the democracies of the Western world.  The process itself works in a predictable way.  Denunciation alone is tantamount to a verdict of guilt.  Once a target is selected, a howling mob...

June 28, 2020

Nihilism, Nietzsche, and our Cultural Crisis

Nihilism is now a pervasive feature of Western society.  Friedrich Nietzsche gave us the formulation of nihilism that is now commonly accepted: a sentiment that nothing really matters, and that there is no point in life.  In the most extrem...

June 23, 2020

The Political Genius of Donald Trump

The word ‘genius’ is not often appended to Donald Trump, except perhaps by himself, but he has demonstrated since early 2016 that he does indeed have a rare political genius.  A man not given to modesty, President Trump can rightfull...

June 17, 2020

Marx and the Rioters

If the cultural cancer of 21st century progressivism is ever to be successfully eradicated it will first be necessary for it to be seen for what it really is: a form of neo-Marxism that aims to destroy capitalism, and with it, Western civilization....