Black War Cinema and the Representation Paradox
The Right - “For all of their insistence on cultural revolution, progressives are not yet ready to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.” 6/8/2023

Lawrence M. Krauss: The Fundamental Questions of Science
The Center - “The great thing is the universe is as amazing as it is without all of the fairytales. The universe is far more amazing than anything that has come up in any scriptural book because the imagination of nature is much greater than the imagination of human beings.” 6/7/2023

The Ever Tenuous Coalition That Is the Left
The Right - “What makes this conflict noteworthy is that it reveals stress lines within the coalition of today’s Left, a coalition that often seems held together more by what it hates than by strong bonds of friendship.” 6/6/2023

Waller Newell: The Characteristics of Tyranny
The Center - “We will be nothing like the way we are now. It will be like a night and day transformation. And it always does require violence because, as you said, that class or race enemy that stands in the way of future bliss simply has to be gotten rid of.” 5/31/2023

Confessions of a Beautiful Soul
The Right - “Despite the book’s homage to Friedrich Schiller via its title, we get nothing even remotely reminiscent of the profound intellectual mind meld between him and his great friend Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.” 5/28/2023

The Lie of the Land
Poetry - “And because you are beautiful do not think/The Nereids will hear you, or Neptune wake/And the sea calm, and you will not sink” 5/27/2023

Review: “Crassus: The First Tycoon” by Peter Stothard
The Center - “Now, Peter Stothard has given us the final decades of the republic through the eyes of Crassus—Rome’s wealthiest man and former consul who famously embarked on a vainglorious and ultimately failed conquest of Parthia that culminated in his embarrassing death.” 5/26/2023

The Many Casualties of Hazing
The Right - “They were given a choice to participate, and they ultimately decided it was worth risking their life, health, individuality, and future for a chance to be a part of a group of people who ultimately couldn’t care less about them.” 5/15/2023

Faisal Saeed Al Mutar: Iraq, 20 Years After the Fall of Baghdad
The Center - “There is a lot of hope. Every time I go there and meet with the new generation, I think that they definitely want for their country to be a successful one. And that’s the conversation in Iraq. Most people have now forgotten about the war.” 5/12/2023

How Do They Still Have Jobs?
The Center - “By any normal definition of the role of a Cabinet member, Secretary Mayorkas would have either resigned voluntarily or have had his resignation requested by the President.” 5/11/2023

How Ideological Addiction Drives Extremism and Undermines Civil Discourse
The Center - “It is made even more dangerous because unlike other addictions, which are widely accepted as harmful, ideological addiction is being constantly fueled by irresponsible members of the political class, the press, and many on social media.” 5/10/2023

Traffic
Poetry - “And where, but in constant circularity/Is all this moving headed?/The answer Cannot be death…” 5/9/2023

Democrats’ Endless Anti-Institutionalism
The Center - “However, it has now become clear that once in power, Democrats, with a few notable exceptions, have largely sought to remove any impediment to realizing their agenda regardless of how time-honored or important a given tradition might be.” 5/4/2023

Excerpt: “Heal Your Daughter”
The Center - “As one example, some time in 2018 and 2019, many of the young people in my practice suddenly started reporting gender dysphoria and declaring themselves trans. Charismatic social media stars were effectively saying: ‘If you don’t fit in, if you don’t like your body, then you’re trans. Everything will get better after you transition.'” 4/30/2023

Review: “Uncommon Wrath” by Josiah Osgood
The Center - “[Josiah] Osgood’s book is a welcome and exciting read about the rivalry between Caesar and Cato; Cato, in the process, finally receives some much-deserved due in the story of the republic’s final decades.” 4/29/2023
