Sixty years ago, James Burnham’s book Suicide of the West was published to much acclaim from conservatives and much criticism by liberals. It was Burnham’s last book (other than a collection of his National Review columns titled The War We…
In April 1845, Karl Marx’s mother-in-law sent to the Marx family a nanny named Helene Demuth, known as “Lenchen.” Marx’s long-suffering wife, Jenny, was thrilled. After all, she had long expressed the wish that Karl would “earn some capital rather…
“Jesus Loves You. Jesus is there for you when you need him,” reads a children book at the Barnes & Noble bookstore almost four years after lockdowns descended. With what children and teens endured, the book might as well say,…
Presidential historian Armitage Goodwin is the visiting associate teaching assistant at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson Center for Harmonious Race Relations. Here he explains his recent voting in the prestigious Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey. As a participant in the clunkily…
The future is never as you imagined it. We’re supposed to be in it. At least that’s what the cartoons said when I was a kid. Reality is nothing like those childhood predictions. It’s 2024, cars still don’t fly, and…
I read that the New York Post has internationalized the controversy over the “gay Christ” poster (so named by the media) that announces this year’s Holy Week in Seville. The poster truly is as awful as the excessive controversy that…
Look what they’ve done to my song, ma Look what they’ve done to my song It was the only thing that I could do half right and it’s turning out all wrong, ma Look what they’ve done to my song….
Among my daily readings online, I include The American Spectator, the Washington Post, and the Washington Times. I recently came across an interesting piece in the Post regarding the new phone etiquette. I was fascinated to find that merely picking up the…
In June 2020, as peaceful protesters burned city after city as part of their ongoing Summer of Love, Europe watched on warily as the love threatened to spread across the pond and soon did, in the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium,…
The trials and tribulations of Claudine Gay, the former president of Harvard University who resigned this week after being exposed as both a Jew-hatred apologist and a serial plagiarist, perfectly expose America’s cultural divide. To the Right, she is the…