March 25, 2023

NPR vs. Masculinity

In our culture’s present moment of confusion about many basic things, you may well have been wondering what “masculinity” means.  Well, have no fear, NPR is here to give you the lowdown on how to properly think of this topic in...

March 4, 2022

How CNN Twists the Racial Narrative

Could it be any clearer that the mainstream media actively wants to divide the country and make us hate one another?  How else to explain that they are constantly running stories like this at the top of their website front pages: “Video sh...

October 2, 2021

'Content creators' can make $75K a month. Guess what they sell

I learned the other day on one of the mainstream media sites (CNN) of a former ICU nurse, a young woman named Allie Rae, who quit her nursing job because she discovered she could make much, much more money by becoming a "content creator."...

September 25, 2021

Our Dark Age of the 'Content Creator'

I learned the other day on one of the mainstream media sites (CNN) of a former ICU nurse, a young woman named Allie Rae, who quit her nursing job because she discovered she could make much, much more money by becoming a ‘content creator.’...

June 6, 2019

How can we possibly comprehend what happened on D-Day?

What can we know, today, a full three quarters of a century later, about how those men felt as they stepped on to the beach at Normandy on June 6, 1944 and the machine guns began blazing? A more troubling question: How likely is it that you could ...

May 17, 2019

The New Jim Crow? Not Even Close

The dominant narrative on the far left these days is that American society is not just racist in the old conventional way; it's "structurally racist."  Doesn't that sound dreadfully, awfully serious? But what does it ac...

April 28, 2019

Reading 'Putin's Rasputin' to Learn about Fighting Fascism

Do an internet search on the name "Aleksandr Dugin," and you quickly learn he is widely considered among the most toxic figures in today's political landscape.  The website Big Think calls him "the most dangerous philosop...

April 6, 2018

A Half-Century of Adolescent Agitators

Much that is deeply wrong with our culture and politics today has its origins in the 1960s, but that can be exceedingly difficult to discern from the media's selective memory on that troubled period in our history.  A proper understanding of...

January 3, 2018

The Equilibrium Prejudice and Free Expression

There is a deep inclination in a certain segment of the punditry class to want to make overly simple equations on any number of complicated social problems.  Sure, the refrain of these simplifiers goes, Those of ideology X are doing somethi...

October 21, 2017

What You're In For: That New Vietnam Documentary

The latest documentary project of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, a sprawling ten-episode, eighteen-hour film on the war in Vietnam, has provoked a fawning and predictable media response.  Reviewers uniformly opine about how admirably it documents wh...

September 28, 2017

What the National Anthem Means

In the opening pages of Who Are We?, Samuel Huntington describes a scene indicative of the important place the national anthem plays in our national identity and of the dire situation of the country at present regarding respect for that anthem. ...