“It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free,” wrote Machiavelli. For all the labors of its best minds,…
My interest in politics began way before Trump. In fact it goes back at least to Election Day 1964. I had just turned eight. Somehow I had decided that I preferred Barry Goldwater to Lyndon Johnson. That evening I lay…
George Friedrich Hegel once remarked, “We learn from history that we do not learn from history.” A paradox no doubt, but the modern liberal illustrates this truth. Don’t let the opening line of this piece fool you. It is not…
The Left is pushing a narrative that violent crime is not increasing. Of course, this contradicts what we see happening on the nightly news with our own eyes. So, who are we to believe? In the words of Chico Marx,…
More than five decades of social psychological data have demonstrated that conservatives report greater levels of happiness and emotional health than liberals. All of this has been so well documented that, for the most part, modern social scientists have given…
One of the few things left in American newspapers that is any good is the syndicated advice column, called “Ask Amy,” that Amy Dickinson writes for hundreds of papers across the country. Dickinson’s advice is a bit old-school, which is…
On June 7, I was one of five panelists, two of us white, to participate in an American Public Square discussion on the subject of reparations for African Americans. The discussion will air multiple times on the Kansas City PBS…
It’s no surprise that California officials have long struggled with basic economic concepts, but it is nevertheless surprising that they would embrace the latest plan to rework the way that the state’s utility companies charge customers for their electricity. Simply put,…
In traditional cultures, elders feel a duty to introduce the young to an education in virtue. In nontraditional modern cultures, adults feel no such duty. They expose children to vice — look at all the moral rot in public schools…
