The Real Appeal of Jordan Peterson
The Right - “Peterson is a man of conviction in an oasis of compromise; therefore, he is perfectly poised to fill the gap in a world crying out for certainty.” 12/10/2020

Reconsidering How We Argue for Capitalism
The Right - “To improve the reputation of capitalism, libertarians must remind naysayers that it is a moral system based on freedom and voluntary participation.” 12/7/2020

America Was Founded in “Brotherly Love”—Not Slavery
The Right - “All of these Lenape ideas are documented in Penn and Tamanend’s treaties and would later find their way into the Constitution of the United States.” 12/6/2020

Is Racism Holding Back African Americans?
The Right - “Presently, cultural explanations for success are unfashionable, though deeper introspection reveals that culture cannot be discounted.” 12/2/2020

In Reply to Tim Wise: America’s Past on Race Should Not Be Oversimplified
The Right - “The toxic consequences of drawing a crude line between America’s past and the state of our modern institutions cannot be understated.” 11/28/2020

Does Understanding the American Project Begin with William Penn?
The Right - “He was the first to negotiate with Native Americans as a Christian, keeping the Christian-Quaker pacifist traditions in his negotiations. He actually regarded the Native Americans as equals…” 11/27/2020

Congressman-elect Burgess Owens on Issues to Tackle in Office
The Right - “Al Davis used to say, ‘Just win, baby.’ And I tell you that’s what Americans do best. Once we wake up, once we’re engaged, once we know that our culture is at risk, we come together and start communicating. Across-party lines, Democrats and Republicans start to talk, and we rise.” 11/25/2020

Jordan Peterson Biographer on Why People Hate Him So Much
The Right - “One can readily see why someone who has committed any part of his life to fighting ‘white privilege’ today would resent Peterson personally.” 11/25/2020

What the Winning Conservative Coalition Looks Like
The Right - “Those who work with ideas increasingly vote for the Democrats, while those who work in physical reality with their hands or machinery increasingly vote Republican.” 11/16/2020

How Biden Did It
The Right - “The Economist’s less-than-ringing endorsement of the former Vice President—resignedly titled, ‘Why it has to be Biden’—typifies the sentiment.” 11/8/2020

What the Gospel Story Can Tell Us about Identity Politics
The Right - “From this vantage point, it would be difficult to imagine a more intersectional person than Jesus.” 11/1/2020

Jordan Peterson and the Return of Solzhenitsyn
The Right - “The world was on this brink of this fiery hell when Jordan Peterson read Solzhenitsyn and began to turn from despair toward hope.” 10/26/2020

Patrick Deneen: Grappling with the Failures of Liberalism
The Right - “This conquest of the engines of social formation is, as Patrick Deneen argues, why liberalism is failing.” 10/16/2020

Van Morrison’s “Dangerous” Songs
The Right - “But, furthermore, there is virtue in urging society to introspection over blind obedience to narratives.” 10/13/2020

In Praise of Trump’s “Platinum Plan” for Black Americans
The Right - “Many on the Left imply that President Trump’s initiative is just about pandering to black Americans; however, I see his plan as a roadmap to prosperity and fairness.” 10/11/2020

Patrick Deneen: A Primer
The Right - “Or is man—like some argue of Odysseus—a restless seeker of new places, people, and experiences?” 10/5/2020

A Few Reflections on the Death of Breonna Taylor
The Right - “Yes, racism does exist. Yes, Breonna Taylor’s death was a tragedy. However, Breonna Taylor’s tragic death is not rooted in racism.” 10/3/2020

Changing My Mind on Universal Basic Income
The Right - “With 14 million Americans suddenly plunged into indefinite unemployment, has UBI become more popular? It seems like the answer is yes and no.” 10/2/2020

Herbert Marcuse and Dismissing Conservative Views
The Right - “Marcuse’s efforts, for the most part, have proven successful, however. To this point, the idea of a right-wing, pro-capitalist status quo has been thoroughly ingrained into the public imagination…” 9/30/2020

Don’t Blame Free Speech for Extremism
The Right - “Free speech does not enable extremism. Quite the contrary: It is the primary means to challenge wrongheaded attitudes, ideologies, and belief systems.” 9/28/2020

“Systemic Racism”: a Popular Illusion
The Right - “These slavery and race theorists are correct about the existence of the stain but wrong about it being indelible.” 9/19/2020

Identity Politics and the Death of Moral Imagination
The Right - “The problem—as has been said so many times before—is that identity politics takes a kernel of truth about embodied human experience and pushes it to its destructive conclusion.” 9/17/2020

Bob Woodward and “Citizen Trump”
The Right - “President Trump was acting as the United States’ cheerleader, his Republican supporters argue. He was derelict in his duty to protect the American public, charge his Democratic opponents.” 9/16/2020

When the Press Is Just as Guilty of “Election Interference”
The Right - “As for now, journalists of Goldberg’s type are simply in the electoral interference business; and they just so happen to be doing it from within the United States’ own borders and from beneath the mastheads of once-respected magazines.” 9/15/2020

Will Witt: What It Means to Be a Young Conservative
The Right - “How can I say I care about what I’m doing if I’m not willing to put myself in situations that might make me uncomfortable?” 9/13/2020

Secretary Mattis and “Meditations” on Trump
The Right - “Secretary Mattis’ words are a warning and a reminder that our roots were born not of anger but of a deeply felt awareness of human limitation.” 9/12/2020

In Gratitude for the Executive Order on Critical Race Theory
The Right - “The Melting Pot is a quaint notion now perhaps (and no longer widely taught to curious young boys and girls), but I find it useful as a basic counterimage to the sophisticated, academic concept of Critical Race Theory now being taught.” 9/11/2020

Why Europe Is Weak on Iran
The Right - “It can be argued that the European failure to stand with the United States in maintaining sanctions on the Islamic regime is a symptom of their prolonged appeasement policy, which is masqueraded as diplomatic engagement.” 8/31/2020

For This Black Woman, the GOP Feels Like Home
The Right - “Suddenly, the Grand Old Party was no longer seen as white, privileged, and wealthy. Instead, it was truly the party of social justice, freedom, economic opportunity, and the American Dream.” 8/30/2020

Don’t Run Away, Conservatives
The Right - “But it feels myopic to interpret this as a larger victory or cheer for more of the same, especially if the ultimate goal is to restore some sense of ideological pluralism to mainstream institutions.” 8/26/2020

Kayleigh McEnany: a Tough Act to Follow
The Right - “However, after the departure of three spokespeople before her, it seems that President Trump has found his keeper—and the media their match—in a 32-year-old Harvard Law School graduate: Kayleigh McEnany.” 8/22/2020

When the Media Is Far from Being an “Arbiter of Truth”
The Right - “And when anyone sees past the illusion of impartiality, thereby revealing the propaganda’s true form, the media recovers with yet more gaslighting: You are merely imagining things.” 8/18/2020

The Singular Courage of Tucker Carlson
The Right - “In the United States today, this is the language of the revolution’s media advance team. They want to silence one of our most prominent voices of opposition…” 8/5/2020

The Case for Free Vaccines
The Right - “In the meantime, perhaps given their impressive track record, free-to-consumer vaccines are something we can all get behind.” 8/1/2020

Creating an Ethos of Individualism in China
The Right - “Although China exhibits authoritarian characteristics, this, by no means, presupposes that liberty is incompatible with its people’s worldview.” 7/28/2020

Freedom Requires Courage
The Right - “But now, being made ‘uncomfortable’ or being associated with unpopular company is sufficient reason to abandon principle.” 7/27/2020

To Be a Caring Conservative
The Right - “All the while, the existing social safety net—combined with various anti-poverty programs—in the United States already provides for our nation’s poor by offering them an adequate standard of living.” 7/23/2020

Interview: Rep. Jody Hice on “Defund the Police” and Big Tech Censorship
The Right - “But there is no question that we’ve got some major issues, and free speech is so dependent these days on these big tech companies, so they have to be very careful that free speech is protected. And, of course, there’s a pattern now that shows otherwise…” 7/22/2020

Lacy Johnson, Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Challenger: Her Record Speaks for Itself
The Right - “I was in poverty once, and then I became an entrepreneur. And now I am running for office…This is the greatest country in the world.” 7/18/2020

We Need Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Now More Than Ever
The Right - “We must first understand this socialist culture of the woke who seek to control what we think, what we say, and how we live. We must believe—like Solzhenitsyn did—that the truth can defeat them.” 7/16/2020

The Shadow of Progress
The Right - “In a worldview that prizes purity above progress, the flawed and erroneous are stains to be expunged. Their remembrance is not only deplorable but damning by association.” 7/12/2020

The Unimaginative Hysteria of Umair Haque
The Right - “Never mind that it is the Trump administration standing up for Uyghur Muslims, actual victims of genocide, by imposing sanctions on CPC officials this past week.” 7/10/2020

Choose “the Party of 1776,” Not “the Party of 1619”
The Right - “Today, with the very identity of the West at stake, it is perhaps particularly important to focus on celebrating those great values.” 7/4/2020

When Censorship Is Outsourced to the Private Sector
The Right - “Our commitment to the rights of others to express themselves, even if they hold heinous beliefs, is something uniquely American, and it is perhaps the finest piece of our cultural heritage.” 7/2/2020

Interview: How David Horowitz Sees 2020
The Right - “Our system in United States is set up in a way that forces us to compromise. The Founders thought the great threat to a democracy is factionalism.” 6/29/2020

The Key to the West Lies Within Sir Roger Scruton’s Life
The Right - “In this 2014 book, he would define conservatism as—among other things—a sentiment and ‘one that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.'” 6/22/2020

Interview: Adrianna San Marco, Student Journalist Fired for Conservative View
The Right - “On her ouster from The Daily Orange, the student journalist says: ‘It also affects me as student because all my peers have banded together and tried to cancel me.'” 6/21/2020

Why People Hate Jordan Peterson So Much
The Right - “Peterson continued, ‘So the Soviets really implemented and perfected the idea of class and ethnicity based guilt, and it’s a very bad road to walk down, and it’s something that we’re very much engaged in at the moment.'” 6/14/2020

Interview: Spike Cohen, Libertarian Nominee for Vice President
The Right - Listen to our conversation with the candidate to hear how his platform can tackle the greatest problems facing the United States today. 6/12/2020

Finding Common Ground in Times of Anguish
The Right - “My progressive friends and I are united in wanting to see an end to police brutality, even though we may differ when it comes to the means to bring that about.” 6/12/2020
