Woke ideology, like Nazism and Communism, targets enemies for cancellation when its fantasy reality inevitably fails to materialize. Resistance is critical.
It’s no surprise that many Americans distrust institutions that are essential in a free society. Yuval Levin offers a way back from atomization, alienation, and anarchy.
Despite what a fearful political class imagines, “Joker” and “Falling Down” are artful studies in paranoia, not allegories on the politics of “the deplorables.”
What Thomas Hobbes tells us about the response to the coronavirus—and why the unafraid cannot be tolerated by right-thinking liberals.
What is it about skateboarding that infuriates the moral scolds and tyrannomaniacs?
What if conservatives lead the charge for the renewal of big cities, especially those financially productive neighborhoods inhabited mainly by racial minorities?
The TV series Deadwood was canceled before it could give fans a proper resolution. Now there’s a movie to tie up loose ends. Has the series finally achieved greatness?
A new book argues that the West built its civilization on a reasonable faith. Will modern pathologies, from Marxism to radical Islam, destroy it?
When morality is reduced to the latest pronouncements of evolutionary theory, values are rendered arbitrary. How deepening our public discourse may be the road to a new ethics.
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