“Looking at the highest income Americans by ethnicity, we likewise find a hodgepodge of people of many colors, with peoples largely from East and South Asia, Europe, and the Middle East at the top.”
Category: The Right
The “Orthodox Conservatives” and the Essence of British Conservatism
“Orthodox Conservatism believes that the culture we have is held in trust—and that it is particular to us and our shared history; it is distinctive, not exclusive and is open to those who wish to join.”
The All Too Brief Life of the Father of Thermodynamics
“This ability to deliver scientific progress amid a sea of errors is more common in the history of science than one might expect.”
I Have a Suggestion for My Fellow Black Americans—This Black History Month
“By allowing this ball and chain of victimhood to stay attached to us (and having this mentality that everyone and everything is racist), we are doing ourselves and our ancestors no favors.”
“Three Big Ideas” to Transform How We Think
“In fact, I can think of three ideas that are so deep, so potentially useful, and so paradigm-shifting that widespread acceptance of even one of them would transform civilization for the better.”
The Predicament of Contemporary Academia
“As a result, liberal arts education has been dragged down into the world that it previously resisted, subjugating honest intellectual inquiry to cheap ideological attachments and the profanities of political activity.”
Reflections of an Ivy League Guy Sleeping Outside for His First Trump Rally
“It is a lot harder to vilify a man for whom 10,000 people will make a pilgrimage for only the chance to see him. I can say—despite my complaints—that I am proud and honored to have been among them.”
John Horvat: Social Media, Jordan Peterson, and “Returning to Order”
“I’ve read Peterson’s Twelves Rules for Life, and it has some points that I agree with. But I don’t think he goes far enough.”
John Kenneth Galbraith’s Newest “Crisis of American Democracy”
“What should concern us now, however, is an emergent threat: the risk of a ‘tyranny of the minority,’ powered further by artificial intelligence (AI).”
When Criminal Justice Reform Goes Too Far
“While bettering the criminal justice system is always laudable, measures that benefit criminal gangs run afoul of every principle for which our government stands.”
I Didn’t Vote for Trump But Strongly Oppose His Impeachment
“However, now—after seeing how he has been treated by Democrats since he was elected—he will have my vote in 2020.”
Before the March for Life, a Word to the Wise
“If the legal pro-lifer really wants to reduce the number of abortions, he or she has no choice but to argue for why abortion is wrong, why a culture in which abortion is frowned upon is superior…”
Killing of Soleimani Presents Opportunities, Not Just Challenges
“…it can be argued that the challenges emanating from this sequence of events have the potential to be turned into golden opportunities to clip the Islamic regime’s wings in the Middle East and beyond.”
Enough Empathy: The Case for Punching Down
“…because heedless empathy for the worst among us is currently leading us on the downward-sloping path to mediocrity and beyond.”
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Why the World Should Thank Trump for Killing Soleimani
“In the event that one is not overly familiar with the past forty years of Iranian history, I will explain what I mean; Iran—over the past four decades—has perfected a playbook of deceit that is so effective that nearly anyone has the potential of falling for it.”