Birchers Redux
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.” ―William S. Burroughs Kicked out of the National Review bio-dome by William F. Buckley in the early ’60s, the John Birch Society has been considered the kooky ...
Earlier this week, I received two articles by email, one from the American right and one from the American left, each alleging that the other side wanted to subvert, or even abandon, the American Constitution. The left alleged that the ruling by the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade was but the start of an unconstitutional attempt to make abortion ...
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.” ―William S. Burroughs Kicked out of the National Review bio-dome by William F. Buckley in the early ’60s, the John Birch Society has been considered the kooky ...
Louis Smith is a British gymnast who won a silver medal in the Rio Olympics. He has just been suspended for two months by British Gymnastics because he is featured in a leaked video in which he and a friend appear to be mocking Muslims ...
Last week, America's institutions of higher learning were in turmoil over Halloween costumes. How can minority students survive Yale if their diktats are ever subjected to skepticism from grown-ups? This week, we are told to not get ...
What is thought to be the first public monument to atheism in the United States was unveiled Saturday in the hardscrabble, Bible-believin" town of Starke, FL. A 1,500-pound granite bench etched with pro-atheist and anti-biblical ...
It is not a pleasant time to be French. New head of state Francois Hollande promises to be the most ridiculous president ever to occupy the Elysee Palace. Why such a harsh judgment on the dapper gent from Correze? Oh, where does one ...
For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and ...
In introducing his new book, Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America, Paul Gottfried identifies a fundamental divide between neoconservatives and the traditional right. The divide is over the question: What is this nation, ...
Churchgoing New Englanders in the early settlements normally heard two sermons every Sunday"one in the morning and another in the afternoon, each at least two hours long. There was no heat in these buildings. They were bitterly cold ...
A few weeks ago in this space I did a Q&A with Jared Taylor of the race-realist American Renaissance website and monthly newsletter. At the time, Jared was preparing for his organization's annual conference, scheduled for Charlotte, ...