For background on how America came to have the inadequate defamation laws now in place, please see Part One of this discussion here. It now has been more than half a century since the liberal Warren Court handed down its…
The biggest spy scandal of the year has been all but ignored in conservative media. Apart from a freelance story in the Washington Examiner, a conservative reader will be entirely in the dark about the scandal embroiling Israeli cybersecurity firm…
Last Wednesday, former President Trump filed a class action lawsuit against Twitter, Facebook, and Google pursuant to their partisan censorship of viewpoints that conflict with those of their CEOs and employees. The next day, Trump took to the Wall Street…
The past has its charms, but it’s still the past. Andy Kessler of the Wall Street Journal (and no doubt thousands of others) seems mesmerized by an antitrust theory developed in the 1960s. In case you haven’t been paying attention,…
Rod Dreher said it, and I couldn’t agree more. Joe Biden is too boring to hate. We conservative columnists are going through a crisis of agreeability. As far back as I can remember, from Carter to Obama, it’s always been…
In his 1995 book Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline, former U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Robert H. Bork writes about America’s slow decline and its departure from Judeo-Christian traditions. His prescient predictions on the rise of the…
The professed goal of eugenics has always been the betterment of society. Think of it as cross-generational plastic surgery. Some genes are more desirable than others — aka, “adaptive” — so if you want a perfect world, a few bad…
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…
