We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite by Musa al-Gharbi Princeton University Press 432 pp., $20.79 If the referent of “we” in this book’s title is “average Americans,” then the claim is undoubtedly correct. Few Americans who are working 9-to-5…
When I was a child, there was a loose tile lying on the backyard path of my grandparents’ house. Whenever I visited, I always loved lifting the tile by a corner to see what lay beneath—invariably a horde of woodlice, worms, millipedes, and beetles, all riled up by the sudden…
Because leftists have largely controlled the print and broadcast news institutions in the United States for the last century, they have long exercised a kind of monopoly in rendering public judgment on the recently departed. In obituaries and news stories, leftists tell us who lived good or bad lives. It is…
The strike on the Hamas negotiating team assembled in Doha marks the end to an entire era – and “a new reality” for Qatar. The strike on the Hamas negotiating team assembled in Doha to discuss the ‘Witkoff Gaza proposal’ is not just another ‘IDF operation’ to be passed…
Years ago, Doug Casey stated, “When empires die, they do so with surprising speed.” At the time, that comment raised eyebrows, yet he was quite correct in his observation. Ernest Hemingway made a similar comment when a character in his novel The Sun Also Rises was asked how he went bankrupt.
Musician and outspoken conservative Kid Rock has labelled the mainstream media as “public enemy number one” in the aftermath of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s shocking murder. In an interview with Fox News’ Jesse Watters, Rock argued that inflammatory rhetoric from outlets like The New York Times and other “nut…
Something very radical is happening in one of the most religious and conservative corners of America. Utah, which is known for its deep Mormon roots, strong family culture, and tradition, is now showing disturbing cracks that nobody expected or noticed until the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The rise of…
This woman is Dunja Hayali. She is known to millions of Germans as the anchor for the ZDF public news programme heute (“today”). The day after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Hayali glossed the story by conceding that “there is no justification for those groups celebrating [Kirk’s] death,” before deploring without any specific reference…
Historically, Western Civilization has existed as a unity. From the Greek alliance against the Persians, to Rome, to the Crusades, the West has found its highest expression when it fights as one. Since the rise of the nation-state, such expressions have been few. In many ways, the entire twentieth…
In what has been described as a disturbing “canceling” trend sweeping across social media, a local leftist was fired from her job simply for having a different opinion on whether conservatives should be murdered. Charity Sparks, an account manager for a marketing company, lost her job over the weekend…
