What Progressives Need to Do
Op-Ed - “No, not everyone on the Left supported these tyrannies, yet what progressives cannot escape is that much of the Left lent political legitimacy to regimes that destroyed and damaged tens of millions of lives, leaving festering wounds that still bleed today.” (3/21/2025)
Op-Ed - “No, not everyone on the Left supported these tyrannies, yet what progressives cannot escape is that much of the Left lent political legitimacy to regimes that destroyed and damaged tens of millions of lives, leaving festering wounds that still bleed today.” (3/21/2025)New Poems:
Introducing Jonathan Church’s podcast:
Christianity and the West―Criticizing Lawrence Auster
Essay - “It was Christianity that became Europe’s unifying ideology and inspired figures from Charlemagne to Columbus.” (3/19/2025)
Essay - “It was Christianity that became Europe’s unifying ideology and inspired figures from Charlemagne to Columbus.” (3/19/2025)The Rooted and the Restless
Essay - “I was born in the 1990s, into one of the countless middle-class Indian families that were sprouting like saplings after the rains, in the wake of the 1991 economic reforms. India was shaking off the dust of its socialist decades and finding its footing in a world suddenly wider and freer.” (3/17/2025)
Essay - “I was born in the 1990s, into one of the countless middle-class Indian families that were sprouting like saplings after the rains, in the wake of the 1991 economic reforms. India was shaking off the dust of its socialist decades and finding its footing in a world suddenly wider and freer.” (3/17/2025)Midwestern Mice in Silk Kimonos: Yuki Tanaka’s “Chronicle of Drifting” Essay - “[Yuki] Tanaka’s singular view, somewhat detached yet not lacking in compassion, soberly reckoning while allowing for flights of optimism, is, again, the product of the angle of vision of the flaneur, the stranger in town, the person who has seen it all but decides not to linger on individual premises too long.” (3/16/2025)
Essay - “[Yuki] Tanaka’s singular view, somewhat detached yet not lacking in compassion, soberly reckoning while allowing for flights of optimism, is, again, the product of the angle of vision of the flaneur, the stranger in town, the person who has seen it all but decides not to linger on individual premises too long.” (3/16/2025)Redefining College: Adapting Higher Education for the 2020s
Op-Ed - “However, if a single mother wants a faster track to employment and signs up for a six-month ‘micro-pathway’ at a local community college to become, for example, a junior data analyst or fiber optics specialist, she will likely have to pay out of pocket.” (3/14/2025)
Op-Ed - “However, if a single mother wants a faster track to employment and signs up for a six-month ‘micro-pathway’ at a local community college to become, for example, a junior data analyst or fiber optics specialist, she will likely have to pay out of pocket.” (3/14/2025)Phantasmal Chaos
Essay - “As geography is transcended, the feverish antipathy between ‘somewheres’ and ‘anywheres’ stands to be sublated…in that, from the standpoint of cyber-space, ‘somewhere’ already means ‘anywhere’.” (3/5/2025)
Essay - “As geography is transcended, the feverish antipathy between ‘somewheres’ and ‘anywheres’ stands to be sublated…in that, from the standpoint of cyber-space, ‘somewhere’ already means ‘anywhere’.” (3/5/2025)Getting to Better American Health Outcomes Essay - “We should think about health inequity not as differences in outcomes across categories of individuals but as structural injustice that harms the health of everyone.” (3/3/2025)
Essay - “We should think about health inequity not as differences in outcomes across categories of individuals but as structural injustice that harms the health of everyone.” (3/3/2025)Language for Throat and Tongue: Elise Paschen’s “Blood Wolf Moon” Essay - “[Elise] Paschen’s writing give new meaning to the term ‘ethnopoetics,’ taking it outside the boundaries of ‘traditional societies,’ ‘the informant,’ and the outsider who goes in to record ‘pre-literate narratives.'” (3/2/2025)
Essay - “[Elise] Paschen’s writing give new meaning to the term ‘ethnopoetics,’ taking it outside the boundaries of ‘traditional societies,’ ‘the informant,’ and the outsider who goes in to record ‘pre-literate narratives.'” (3/2/2025)What Moby Dick Still Teaches Us Essay - “For many who join extremist organizations, it is not the cause that looks for them. Instead, they are looking for a cause.” (2/26/2025)
Essay - “For many who join extremist organizations, it is not the cause that looks for them. Instead, they are looking for a cause.” (2/26/2025)Haunted by the Sonnet: Erica Reid’s “Ghost Man on Second” Essay - “In [Erica] Reid’s Ghost Man on Second, the real ghost man floating through the pages is the sonnet.” (2/16/2025)
Essay - “In [Erica] Reid’s Ghost Man on Second, the real ghost man floating through the pages is the sonnet.” (2/16/2025)When Student Disengagement Meets Worker Disengagement, and a Solution Op-Ed - “Engagement is inseparable from hope and motivation. The top quartile of students most engaged in school are more than four times as likely as the least-engaged students to believe they have a great future ahead of them.” (2/13/2025)
Op-Ed - “Engagement is inseparable from hope and motivation. The top quartile of students most engaged in school are more than four times as likely as the least-engaged students to believe they have a great future ahead of them.” (2/13/2025)The Myth of Neocon Anti-Nationalism
Essay - “However, it seems unlikely that this is because neoconservatism inherently favors open borders, as some critics have suggested. A more probable reason is neoconservatism’s penchant for compromise, pragmatism, and moderation.” (2/12/2025)
Essay - “However, it seems unlikely that this is because neoconservatism inherently favors open borders, as some critics have suggested. A more probable reason is neoconservatism’s penchant for compromise, pragmatism, and moderation.” (2/12/2025)The Speech of Herbs: Melissa Kwasny’s “The Cloud Path”
Essay - “Yet what might in lesser hands become mere effusions is tempered with a wise, sometimes steely, sometimes self-abnegating, sometimes mournful contemplative voice that speaks of philosophical and personal concerns combined…” (2/2/2025)
Essay - “Yet what might in lesser hands become mere effusions is tempered with a wise, sometimes steely, sometimes self-abnegating, sometimes mournful contemplative voice that speaks of philosophical and personal concerns combined…” (2/2/2025)Understanding Orwell on the Lesser Evil Essay - “Five years later, Orwell published an essay called ‘Looking Back on the Spanish War,’ in which he states, ‘War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil.'” (1/31/2025)
Essay - “Five years later, Orwell published an essay called ‘Looking Back on the Spanish War,’ in which he states, ‘War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil.'” (1/31/2025)Second Thoughts on Airline Deregulation Essay - “The deregulation of air travel and other sectors of the economy in the 1970s was (and continues to be), in my view, a profound mistake. While controversial, I assure you that this contrarian take is not (entirely) a product of big-government sentimentalism from a crabby online socialist.” (1/29/2025)
Essay - “The deregulation of air travel and other sectors of the economy in the 1970s was (and continues to be), in my view, a profound mistake. While controversial, I assure you that this contrarian take is not (entirely) a product of big-government sentimentalism from a crabby online socialist.” (1/29/2025)