SocietyCommentary
Our Totalitarian Moment
America feels like it’s falling apart. That’s because it is. There are two ways to achieve unity in any group. The first is to set… Read More
SecurityCommentary
We Must Never Forget the 100 Million Victims of Communism
You know you’re doing the right thing when your enemies condemn you. When President George W. Bush 13 years ago on June 12, 2007, dedicated… Read More
SocietyAnalysis
What Frederick Douglass Might Say to Us Today
The wisdom of leaders like 19th-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass is critical at this moment in America’s history. The Rev. Dean Nelson, the executive director of… Read More
SocietyAnalysis
Why Conservatives Should Be Leading the Civil Rights Movement
“Conservatives should be leading the civil rights movement,” says Kay C. James, president of The Heritage Foundation. James joins the “Problematic Women” podcast to explain… Read More
SocietyCommentary
We Can Protect Our Health While Preserving Our Civil Liberties
As states nationwide begin the process of reopening, Americans continue to battle over the methods governors and local authorities have used to tackle the coronavirus… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Church Attendance Essential to America’s Greatness
President Donald Trump stepped up to declare houses of worship “essential places that provide essential services” to the American people. “The governors need to do… Read More
SocietyAnalysis
Problematic Women: A Woman’s Story of Unwittingly Furthering the Sexual Revolution
Sue Ellen Browder, author of “Subverted: How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women’s Movement,” was a writer for Cosmopolitan magazine during the sexual… Read More
SocietyNews
Bid to Oust Southern Poverty Law Center as Amazon’s Charity Arbiter Defeated
Amazon shareholders stood by the Southern Poverty Law Center on Wednesday in defeating a resolution that would have curbed the liberal activist group’s power to… Read More
SocietyCommentary
COVID-19 Crisis Is Giving New Power to Bureaucrats, Politicians
Is it important to have racial or sexual diversity in our fight against the COVID-19 pandemic? Heather Mac Donald suggests that some think it might… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Across the Wide, Growing American Divide
Red- and blue-state America was already divided before the coronavirus epidemic hit. Globalization had enriched the East Coast and West Coast corridors but hollowed out… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Dangers of Pursuing Safety Above All Else
In a recent “Fireside Chat,” my weekly talk show on the PragerU platform, I commented on society’s increasing fixation on being “safe.” The following is… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Why Are Millennials the Least Entrepreneurial Generation Since WWII?
It used to be that starting a small business was seen as the way up to wealth, or at least middle-class respectability. Nearly half (49.7%)… Read More
PoliticsNews
Grassroots Petition Urging Governors to ‘Reopen Their States’ Tops 100,000 Signatures
A petition launched in late April by Heritage Action for America asking governors to “open American society” has surpassed 100,000 signatures. “Millions of Americans are… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Protecting Property Rights Now and in a Post-Pandemic Economy
The United States was ranked 17th in The Heritage Foundation’s latest Index of Economic Freedom. That’s not what Americans should expect from a nation whose… Read More
Health CareCommentary
It’s Time for Some Commonsense ‘MommySense’ on COVID-19 and Personal Freedom
President Ronald Reagan in 1986 famously said the scariest words in the English language are “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” In… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Our Dress Rehearsal for a Police State
All my life, I have dismissed paranoids on the right (“America is headed to communism”) and the left (“It can happen here”—referring to fascism). It’s… Read More
Health CareCommentary
America’s Uncomfortable but Unavoidable COVID-19 Choices Ahead
America is a free society, and in a free society, the exercise of personal choice is dependent upon both the opportunity to make choices and… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Why We Should Start Going Back to Work
At this writing, the number of deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. is 42,425. This is just a little higher than the number of deaths… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Power of Personal Character
Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from the book “Solid Ground: A Foundation for Winning in Work and in Life” (2020) by T.W. Lewis. As… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Fawning US Media Is 1 Reason Beijing Thinks It Can Bully Hong Kong
Pro-China authorities last week brazenly arrested Beijing’s chief critics in Hong Kong, a city that is supposed to have a high degree of autonomy. Unsurprisingly,… Read More
SocietyFeature
My Grandfather Escaped From Communist Romania. Here’s His Story.
As a train slowed to take a hill outside a riverside city in communist Romania, about 20 young men leapt off and ran into the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Free People Take Responsibility and Solve Problems
Several months ago, before anyone imagined the current crisis, I read a book called “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl. Frankl was a Jewish… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Distancing, Quarantine, Isolation: Tools to Combat a Pandemic
Major events bring with them new words, phrases, and social responses. Some events—such as major terrorist attacks or global pandemics—call upon us to change how… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Staying Free and Faithful in a Pandemic
The coronavirus crisis presents challenges to us as a nation and as individuals. There are principles we should keep in mind. Let’s remember how our… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Socialism’s Past
Sen. Bernie Sanders’, I-Vt., call for socialism has resonated among many Americans, particularly young Americans. They’ve fallen prey to the idea of a paradise here… Read More
SocietyCommentary
What Young Americans Don’t Know About Socialism
Pundits have argued that younger voters, especially those under 30, are less inclined to be bothered when they hear the word “socialism,” since they have… Read More
SocietyNews
How Sens. Ernst, Blackburn Met Poverty, Tyranny Outside America
A pair of female Republican senators shared eye-opening, firsthand encounters with authoritarianism and socialism in their travels abroad—including grinding poverty and lack of freedom—for an… Read More
SocietyNews
Conservatives Skewer the Socialist Policies of Today’s Liberals
Today’s liberals offer the security of socialism to young Americans, but there isn’t enough money on the planet to deliver what they promise, the chairman… Read More
SocietyNews
‘America Needs Our Help to Keep Her Special,’ Heritage President Tells Conservatives
America is only a republic if Americans can keep it, Heritage Foundation President Kay C. James told an enthusiastic crowd Thursday at the annual Conservative… Read More
SocietyNews
Pence: ‘Socialism Has Failed … Freedom Works’
Vice President Mike Pence warned a gathering of conservative activists Thursday about the perils of socialism and its historical record of failure. “Socialism has failed… Read More
