Politics suffers from a confusion of language. Ezra Pound would point us back to the teachings of Confucius on “the rectification of names”—call things what they are, use accurate terminology. If you don’t, communication is not possible. The terms right and left are at least a hundred years out of date in…
Everyone talks about this place [Washington DC] being a dadgum swamp. It’s not a swamp. A swamp is something cool, God created. It filters water, animal life flourishes around it. This is a sewer. It’s created by man. And it needs to stop. –Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN)…
Although the media are not typically interested in helping Republicans win elections, they seem awfully concerned that Donald Trump’s immigration raids in Charlotte, North Carolina, could hurt the GOP’s electoral prospects. The New York Times reports, for example, that the raids “brought one of the…
A few months ago, I wrote an article on art and the right for The Metropolitan Review. The gist of it was that thinking about art in terms of “right” and “left” and, therefore, trying to be creative in accordance with specific political criteria is…
The word “racist” has long been the most effective fear monger in the left’s and neoconservatives’ arsenal. For decades, they’ve used it successfully in the political arena to smear traditionalists, stifle debate, and route opponents. In the social arena, they’ve done even more damage by using it to…
In the “old days,” proud leftists mocked Christians for their social concerns by theatrically asking, “Won’t somebody please think of the children?” The rhetorical barb was meant to portray non-leftists as being easily duped rubes who are always hyperventilating over some imaginary “moral panic.” These days, it is…
Never have we had a more livid moment in the history of global race relations than in the former French colony of San Domingo. Today it is known as Haiti, an impoverished and volatile basket case of a nation, which is not coincidentally run by sub-Saharan blacks.
Ukrainian independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 hinged on the re-collection and dismantlement of 1,700 Soviet-owned and operated nuclear weapons, under the auspices of the Non Proliferation Treaty in 1994. As a soviet state, Ukraine had been the 3rd largest nuclear power in the world.
“Happiness is the quiet truth that remains when illusion dissolves.” There are conversations we must return to again and again, not because they are comfortable, but because they illuminate something essential about the human condition. Happiness is one of those conversations. And yet, in all our modern…
This undercover video from James O’Keefe is the kind of thing Americans were told for years they were not allowed to talk about. Remember when the 2020 election was a banned topic? Our “esteemed” institutions insisted everything was just dandy. 2020 was the safest and most trusted election…
