"Government requires make-believe. Make believe that the king is divine, make believe that he can do no wrong or make believe that the voice of the people is the voice of God. Make believe that the people have a voice or make believe that the representatives of the people are the people. Make ...
How is everybody coping with the decline of America? I'll tell you how I'm doing in a bit, but first I have a few observations about Thanksgiving. I wish I had a dime for every time I've heard someone declare that Thanksgiving is their favorite holiday. I used to say it myself, before I ...
With President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), supporters of the current public health establishment are circling the wagons to prevent this from happening. A recent opinion ...
The furor about the real risk to American national security posed by President-elect Donald Trump's choice of Tulsi Gabbard as the next Director of National Intelligence has obscured what is the even greater risk, and that's the one posed by the president-elect himself. It's somehow all but ...
In the arts and humanities, the work of faculty, staff and students can be a blessing and a curse. We tend to have a lot of questions perpetually sprouting in our minds! Some sprouts are invasive weeds, hard to manage, frustratingly persistent. Others are healthy plants to be nurtured. Both ...
It is a truism that does not get talked about enough, but is innately part of being a conservative, or really a person of any ideological conviction — worldview matters. Those of us on the right have long understood this. If, for example, a person is an atheist who believes there is no ...
