Watching director and producer Robby Starbuck speak at CPAC 2021 last Friday, I had a major revelation, which had been percolating in my head for a year. The fundamental struggle of our time is not between Right and Left, right…
Socrates ran afoul of Athenian democracy, such as it was, and paid for it with his life. His student and admirer Plato learned the lesson and was more politically prudent. He did not lack greatness for that, nor did he…
A warning: near the bottom of this column you’ll find a completely shameless, though entirely relevant, plug. There, I said it. And I don’t apologize. Have you been paying attention to the Facebook–Australia dustup? It’s a fascinating and entirely predictable…
We stayed quiet when reporters uncovered that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt started pushing the Biden administration to appoint Google’s allies to top federal government positions. We stayed quiet when the then-president-elect named a swath of Big Tech alumni to his transition team, including…
I am neither a conservative nor a Trump supporter, so my initial reaction when Twitter permanently cut the president off from his 88 million followers was positive. When Trump is not reading a speech prepared by a member of his…
On January 6, 2021, then-President Trump spoke before a large group of his supporters, who marched to the U.S. Capitol to protest what they believed was a stolen election. That protest turned violent, and, sadly, five people died. Afterward, Big…
I read Scott McKay’s recent article in The American Spectator. I cannot agree more with the diagnosis nor disagree more with the solution. My opinion about Jack Dorsey and the technological nouveau riche who share an equal fondness for Vipassanā…
“The Silencing Fathers,” editorial cartoon by Patrick Cross for The American Spectator, January 15, 2021.
If we’re going to be objective about it, we’ve got to give the Mark Zuckerbergs, Jeff Bezoses and Jack Dorseys of the world their due — the apps they’ve created are some of the greatest technological marvels in history. It’s…
