The headline at Fox was blunt: Mayorkas testifies DHS is creating ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ The news comes two days after Tesla CEO Elon Musk secured a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter The story began: Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified…
Daniel Flynn reported in the April 8 edition of Spectator A.M. on a recent debate between two distinguished professors on the topic “Return to the Founders to Save America.” Flynn quoted one of the debaters, Patrick Deneen of Notre Dame, in a…
Back there in the mists of time, April 22, 2014 to be precise, I wrote a column in this space that was titled: The New American Fascism In which I cited some twenty incidents of leftists shutting down or attempting…
In the 1970s, the Latin American Left played a key role in the destruction of liberal democracy, which it attacked as an instrument of bourgeois domination. In many cases the leftists were so “successful” they helped bring about right-wing military…
This is a season of distress. American observers cannot resist comparing it to the spring and summer of 1968 in Chicago and New York. Or you might want to recall the autumn of 1969 with its singular, legislatively attainable aim….
When I was in college, the person I respected most was Ken Kesey. Everything hinges on consciousness. An unexamined life is not living. Kesey’s work was one great, creative exercise in revolutionary consciousness-raising. So it seemed in 1971. I was…
On April 4, 1917, the U.S. Congress declared war on Germany. Two days before, President Woodrow Wilson addressed legislators, admitting that only they could plunge America into what amounted to a continental abattoir, daily consuming Europe’s best and brightest. It…
The plague has brought in some fresh air. For a number of years, I have led a small, devoted group of students in study of texts from the Chabad Chassidic tradition. The group is comfortable, friendly, and open. It has…
We could organize a mass protest. But then the health police then soon organize our mass incarceration. We could pray together that our leaders regain their senses if only they did not take away church as well. Maybe a teach-in?…
