Home ownership is at the core of our civilization — can it be saved? Home ownership is declining across the West. In America, the rate continues to fall, down 3.5 percentage points since its peak. Australia is down 3 points, Great Britain is down nearly 7 points since, and so on.
Quality-free education and racial bean counting are still with us. While numerous changes are needed to improve our faltering education system, eliminating the concept of “equity” should perhaps be at the top of the list. Grading for Equity, written by Joe Feldman, a former teacher,…
I raise the question in the title because the Russian media looks askance at what it labels “a rise in the popularity of right-wing forces” in “recent elections in three EU countries.” The Russian media describes as “right-wing” the awakened ethnic nationalities–the French of France, the Germans of Germany–as “right-wing.” But…
A strange thing developing in pseudo-intellectual circles is the defense of expertise, by which is meant the defense of credentialism. People long on credentials, but short on practical knowledge and experience, are demanding they get the respect they deserve as experts in their respective fields. Nathan Cofnas is the…
Senator Lindsey Graham has been the target of criticism on the former Twitter for his recent trip to Ukraine. The gist of it is that Graham seems to find more time for other countries than he does for his own people. One user wrote: Dear @LindseyGrahamSC, Can you to…
Joan Didion’s 1968 Slouching Towards Bethlehem reflected on fragmentation of society and morality. Slouching, the idea of reluctantly and somewhat aimlessly getting to a “better place” is often referenced, not by realists or sincere critics, but by unhappy progressives, terribly concerned that we aren’t getting there soon enough. When it comes…
I have to confess to being a lifelong “denier.” At a very tender age, I recognized that pretty much every authority figure I interacted with was deeply flawed. When you’re a critical thinker, your curiosity being countered with “ours is not to question why, ours is just to do…
Note: In December 2011, I visited South Africa for two weeks to compose a journalistic piece on the state of the Afrikaner people since the end of Apartheid in 1994. That article eventually ran in a journal which is now out of print. But with Afrikaners in the news…
I published an article last week in The Metropolitan Review about art, politics, and the right. It opens with the true story of a barbarian king being cut in half by his rival in a very literal fell swoop because what better way to grab your…
The most realistic best-case scenario for Russia would be that the US seriously tries coercing Ukraine into concessions, Russia doesn’t devastatingly retaliate to any subsequently desperate Ukrainian provocations, and then Ukraine capitulates shortly thereafter once the US cuts it off. The second round of the newly resumed Russian-Ukrainian talks…
