SocietyCommentary
A Most Unusual Thanksgiving
I have loved song lyrics since briefly flirting in my teens and early 20s with a career in musical comedy, settling instead for journalism after… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Americans View Religion as an ‘Identity,’ Not a ‘Hobby.’ Policymakers Should Take Note.
A new survey has provided unique insights into what faith-based Americans have been thinking about their beliefs in the wake of COVID-19—and how they feel… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This Adoption Month, Learn How to Help Children in Foster Care
National Adoption Month reminds us there are still too many children who need the permanency of a stable and loving family. The U.S. has more… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Mayflower Compact and the Roots of Economic Freedom and Private Property
With the Thanksgiving season upon us, a group of scholars is meeting today to discuss the Mayflower Compact, in a webinar series honoring the 400th… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Justice Alito’s Important Warning
Everywhere one looks there are warning signs, from labels on cigarette packs warning that smoking causes cancer to ridiculous labels on thermometers that read, “Once… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Convert Me If You Can
The investigative journalists over at The Daily Beast report that Madison Cawthorn, the North Carolina Republican who will soon become the youngest member of Congress… Read More
SocietyCommentary
What Happens When a Broken Country Tries to Fight a Pandemic
One of the most memorable scenes in the “Hunger Games” books and movies is when the poor kids from the outer districts take the train… Read More
EducationCommentary
A Retired Professor’s Retrospective on How Academia and Society Have Gone Separate Ways
I landed in Washington, D.C., in 1965 as a graduate student. For a conservative, the landscape was barren. There was no conservative administration, no national… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Frederick Douglass’ American Identity Politics
Mark Twain copied a friend’s remark into his notebook: “I am not an American; I am the American.” That is a claim—to be the American, the exemplary or representative American—that very… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Cancel Culture Forces Companies to Embrace Woke Capitalism
Cancel culture is a black hole that is swallowing corporate America. The zeitgeist of social awareness and virtue signaling has spread far beyond the realm… Read More
SocietyCommentary
How Mayflower Compact Influenced the American Concept of Rule of Law
A group of scholars meets this week to discuss the impact of the Mayflower Compact—signed 400 years ago last week, on Nov. 11, 1620—on the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Calls for ‘Unity’ Really Calls for Capitulation
Political unity is an ugly, authoritarian idea. No free place has domestic political unity, nor should it aspire to it. What “unity” really means, of… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Dreading Thanksgiving Conversations? Keep These 3 Points in Mind for a Civil Discussion
It’s that time of year again. Many of us soon will travel to celebrate Thanksgiving with friends and family. As we eat our Thanksgiving turkey… Read More
SecurityCommentary
National Native American Veterans War Memorial Honors Great American Patriots
“There were terrible moments that encompassed a lifetime, an endlessness, when terror was so strong in me, that I could feel idiocy replace reason. [Yet,]… Read More
LawCommentary
Meet Rachael Rollins, the Rogue Prosecutor Whose Policies Are Wreaking Havoc in Boston
This commentary is part of a series on the rogue prosecutors around the country who have been backed by liberal billionaires such as George Soros… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Birth of the Coalition of Normal People May Be Upon Us
Throughout this election, there were signs of the birth of a coalition of normal people unhappy with the radical turns our country has been taking…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
It’s Time to Elect Civility
Looking out the windows today, the skies are blue, but it’s eerily quiet. In Washington, D.C., where I live, businesses have boarded up their windows… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Election 2020 Exposes Culture War: Overcoming Fear With Truth
Submitting my weekly column on the morning of the 2020 presidential election was surreal. But not as surreal as walking to work through an apocalyptic… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Blacks of Yesteryear and Today
I was a teenager, growing up in the Richard Allen housing project of North Philadelphia, when Emmett Till was lynched in Money, Mississippi, on Aug…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
Roots of Antifa: This ‘Idea’ Has Violent Consequences
As riots and looting consumed Philadelphia this week after a fatal police shooting, a radical left-wing group, the Philly Socialists, began monitoring police scanners and… Read More
SocietyAnalysis
Big Businesses Target Racism in US, Stay Mum on China’s Abuses
When pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong were reaching their height last year, China’s government demanded that Apple Computer remove from its stores an app that… Read More
SocietyAnalysis
What Killed Michael Brown? It’s Not What You’ve Been Told
Before the riots and racial strife of 2020, there was Ferguson, Missouri. On Aug. 9, 2014, an 18-year-old named Michael Brown scuffled with a police… Read More
Education Analysis
Problematic Women: Left’s Woke Education and Social Policies Are Scary
The agenda of the far left is frightening, and concerned conservative moms are speaking out. Today, Allison Weisenberger, a mother and California resident, joins “Problematic Women”… Read More
SocietyNews
Rioters Hurl Rocks at New York City Cops, Drive Through Police Line
New York City rioters hurled rocks at cops, drove through a police line, and damaged several businesses Tuesday night following the Philadelphia officer-involved fatal shooting… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Smithsonian’s ‘Girlhood (It’s Complicated)’ Exhibit Is Tainted by Leftist Indoctrination
The Smithsonian National Museum of American History recently hosted a virtual opening in honor of a new exhibit, “Girlhood (It’s Complicated),” which is now open… Read More
SocietyCommentary
America Is Drowning in the Lies of the Left
There are conservatives who lie, and there are liberals who lie, but both conservatism and liberalism hold truth to be a supreme value. This is… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Top-Down White Penitence Is Shaking Up and Roiling the American Workplace
A white physician working in Raleigh, North Carolina, says he has participated in multiple diversity training exercises—including two in the last two years—without a fuss…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
In 2020, a Radical Disruption of American Life
The coronavirus, widespread quarantines, an unprecedented self-induced recession, and unchecked rioting, looting, and protesting—all in a presidential election year—are radically disrupting American habits and behavior…. Read More
EducationCommentary
Civil Society Can Usher in a New Era of Education
Learning hasn’t been easy for Ayana Osborne’s family, who became homeless in December 2019. Mandatory school closures due to COVID-19 meant that her three children enrolled… Read More
SocietyCommentary
America’s Teenagers Are Losing Their Religion
A few weeks ago, the Pew Research Center came out with its most recent survey on the faith of today’s teenagers. While there are a… Read More
