A new meme is making the rounds, suggesting that we replace so-called violent language (e.g., “We’re going to pull the trigger”) with softer language (e.g., “We’re going to launch”). This is just the latest example of the endless and perpetual…
The Maze: A John Corey Novel By Nelson DeMille (Scribner, 432 pages, $30) If you read Nelson DeMille’s newest John Corey thriller, The Maze, right after Andrew Klavan’s A Strange Habit of Mind as I just did, you might think…
“It is rational to attack the police; nay, it is glorious. But the modern critics of religious authority are like men who should attack the police without ever having heard of burglars.” — G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy Casting about for someone…
With Halloween came a new batch of articles, news segments, and podcasts lambasting and warning of unintended cultural appropriation. In an Oct. 14 PBS article, author Beatrice Alvarez admonished families that many costumes are “actually hurtful to many people because…
In 2013, David McCormick signed a legal brief in favor of gay marriage. In 2008, Dr. Oz said, “I’m not socially conservative. I don’t believe that we should be intruding into the private lives of homosexuals and we should not…
It’s been almost two years since Dan Snyder, owner of the NFL team formerly known as the Washington Redskins (and still known as that in the hearts of thousands of football fans) caved into the social justice warriors and virtue…
Man is by nature a tribal creature. For many thousands of years, human existence was defined by family connections, with ties of blood and marriage providing the social network that ensured cooperation and support necessary to sustaining life. Loyalty to…
After months of death, depression, and disruption due to COVID-19, there is hope of ending the pandemic. The Trump administration’s “Operation Warp Speed,” which spurred private pharmaceutical research while stopping the Food and Drug Administration from killing people with delay,…