Chloe laughed and chatted cheerfully as she skimmed the menus in front of us. We were seated next to each other that night after speaking on a panel about the dangers that the gender ideology movement poses to children. She…
Everyone is familiar with the ubiquitous pharmaceutical ads that encourage the viewer to ask their doctor about Abilify for depression, Skyrizi for plaque psoriasis, or Linzess for irritable bowel syndrome. At some point during these commercials, which show grim-faced recluses…
AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI’s Future and Save Our Own By Verity Harding (Princeton University Press, 288 pages, $22) The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised By James Pethokoukis (Center Street, 336…
My new book on Pornhub’s reckoning, Takedown: Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for Child Abuse, Rape, and Sex Trafficking, teaches that to stop online sex trafficking, we must eliminate profitability. Sex trafficking, to put it simply, is the…
By now, I feel like I’ve become something of a wedding expert. In addition to planning my own upcoming nuptials, I’ve attended four weddings just this summer, with a fifth around the corner. Not to mention, I served my time…
Unity never feels as real yet proves as illusory as it does on Election Day. Whichever candidate wins, factional unity loses. This realization occurs at an accelerated rate for the losers. The winners eventually experience a crackup, too. Governing forces…
When Donald Trump left Washington on January 20, 2021, the consensus among our ruling elites was that his tumultuous career in politics was at an end. The Democrats, however, were taking no chances. Having impeached him just a week earlier…
Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America’s School Curricula By Wilfred Reilly (Broadside Books, 272 pages, $25) Ronald Reagan once quipped, “The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that…
In my young adulthood — which, roughly speaking, spanned the decades between the Carter presidency and the dawn of the computer age — most Americans, it seemed to me, were patriots, people who never took their liberty for granted. Of…