When I first stepped onto the college quad, I was just another young man, making his way, surveying the lay of the land. For me, however, there were a few personal firsts playing out in real time to which none…
More Ohioans voted for abortion than for marijuana this Tuesday. Discourse about the election focused mainly on Issue 1, which enshrined the right to “make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions” — or, stated honestly, to kill your unborn…
In a show of my love for modernity, I have been watching Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, which, by the way, in Spanish was marketed as Caballero Sin Espada (swordless knight). Year 1939. I hold steadfast in the idea that,…
Los países de literatura indigente tienen historia desabrida. [Countries with an impoverished literature have an insipid history.] — Nicolás Gómez Dávila It has become something of an autumn tradition. The leaves change their verdant hues, mothballed sweaters come out of…
I admire Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ability to wiggle. Not in any kind of sensual sense; I mean ideological wiggling, and her ideas are about as sensual as hitting your finger with a hammer. She moves from one borderline to another, from…
The current Western worldview has slowly relapsed back to the cozy “rules-based international order” shared by the intelligentsia of the Great Powers before 1914. According to that perspective, diplomacy was too sophisticated, the global economy too interwoven, technology too advanced,…
Joint Force Quarterly, the premier journal of National Defense University (NDU) Press, has entered wokeland. The latest issue of the Quarterly features an article by Magdalena Bogacz, assistant professor at the Global College of PME at Air University, that argues…
Founded in 1977, Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) is America’s major organization for gay members of the GOP. There is much to admire about it. While virtually all other major gay-rights groups in America, such as Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and…
Fani Willis likes to repeatedly tell us that “justice is a blind lady.” Besides being nonsense, it’s also not true, but at this point no one expects Willis to know what she’s talking about every time she opens her mouth….
