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May 2025

May 05, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 5/5/25

Canada's election. Only 11% of transgender "women," or fewer, get the operation. And the truth...

April 2025

April 29, 2025

Learning from a Communist

The Italian communist Antonio Gramsci said that "politics is downstream of culture," so that the...

April 28, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 4/28/25

Generating "bodyoids": Humans with no minds. Wisconsin trick increases school funding for 402 years. And...

April 11, 2025

The Common Order of Christian Love

Luther's doctrine of the estates is an important facet--in addition to the Two Kingdoms and...

April 11, 2025

DISCUSS: Move Fast and Break Things?

Do you think Mark Zuckerberg's maxim of "move fast and break things" is a good...

April 07, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 4/7/25

Upending the economy. The Marxist comic book. And how to thwart a black mass.

April 02, 2025

How Community Is Lost & Regained

To a large degree, we have lost our sense of community. MacIntyre's model--creed, story, practices--can...

March 2025

March 31, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 3/31/25

Trump's honeymoon is over. Abort the poor to save money. And Methodist schism sparks violence...

March 28, 2025

Canceling Shakespeare

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust plan to "decolonize" Shakespeare heralds the death of woke ideology and...

March 25, 2025

“Abundance Liberalism”

Two journalists, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, are proposing a new kind of liberalism. Their book...

March 19, 2025

There Is More to Freedom Than You Realize

Everyone wants to be free, but they mean different things by it. Brad Littlejohn explores...

March 10, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 3/10/25

OpenAI hallucinates 37% of the time. The Washington Post is changing its tune. And giving...

March 07, 2025

Going Too Far

Peggy Noonan says that the reason progressives crashed and burned is because they kept going...

February 2025

February 25, 2025

How Conservatives Rediscovered Christianity

When we think of "conservatives" today, we tend to think of evangelicals, conservative Catholics, pro-lifers,...

February 19, 2025

Wilsonian Expertise vs. Political Democracy

Reagan's Civil Service director says that the controversy over the DOGE reforms is based on...

February 14, 2025

MAGA Targeting Lutherans?

Gen. Flynn is accusing "Lutherans" of money laundering and Elon Musk is siccing the DOGEs...

February 14, 2025

DISCUSS: Take Over or Eliminate?

Is it better to shut down big government operations or try to use big government...

February 10, 2025

Shock and Awe Miscellany, 2/10/25

Do we really want Gaza? How can tariffs help our economy? Slashing the government.

February 07, 2025

On Virtue Signalling

The different varieties of virtue signaling at least acknowledge the reality of virtue and our...

January 2025

January 27, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 1/27/25

Trump's "shock and awe." The breakdown of conservative, liberal, or moderate. The woes of cable...

January 15, 2025

Trump’s Impact on Popular Culture

Donald Trump's political victory seems to be accompanied by a larger "vibe shift" in American...

January 13, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 1/13/25

The Great Los Angeles Fire. Why UK officials ignore the groomer gangs. And almost no...

January 10, 2025

Is Liberalism Coming to Its Senses?

I am astonished at the relatively mild reactions among progressives to Donald Trump's re-election and...

January 03, 2025

The Workers of the World Are Uniting

"Workers of the world, unite!" So Marx concluded "The Communist Manifesto." Today, it is happening. ...

January 02, 2025

What We’ll Have to Face in 2026

The beginning of the new year is a good time to look ahead and assess...

December 2024

December 27, 2024

Words of the Year 2024

English Dictionaries have the custom of proclaiming a "word of the year," new words or...

December 17, 2024

Are Right-Wing Conservatives “Woke”?

Conservatives have long criticized left-wing progressives for being "woke," a term social justice activists use...

December 05, 2024

Eisenhower on the Vocation of Staffer

General and President Dwight Eisenhower laid out some principles for the vocation of staff member....

November 2024

November 27, 2024

Deconstructing Woke

The recent election may have marked the end of woke ideology as a political force. ...

November 26, 2024

Vocation and Cabinet Posts

President-elect Donald Trump's nominations for cabinet posts, which must be deliberated by the Senate, raise...