July 20, 2020

The truth about America's coronavirus response effectiveness

Headlines and people from around the world castigate America for its staggering number of coronavirus cases.  Roughly one fourth of all worldwide confirmed cases come from the good ol' US of A.  American must be failing compar...

May 25, 2020

James Burnham and the COVID-19 Resistance: Only Power Restrains Power

Years before becoming senior editor of National Review, James Burnham wrote a book titled The Machiavellians (1943).  Consistent with Machiavelli, the work studies not how things should be, but how they really are: Burnham reduced all polit...

April 11, 2020

The Real COVID 19 Culprit? The WHO.

National and local leaders have been and will continue to be scrutinized, and justly so.  But global institutions deserve the same scrutiny, because COVID-19 isn't a national issue; it's a global one.  As the virus began t...

January 1, 2020

Who is more like Hitler: Trump or those who maintain he is like Hitler?

Nearly three years after assuming office, the "Trump is like Hitler" chant continues.  A Washington Post headline reads: "It's not wrong to compare Trump's America to the Holocaust.  Here's why."...

August 31, 2019

Secularization and the Demonization of Donald Trump

All presidents are loved and hated by segments of the population, but the Left's hatred for Donald Trump goes one step farther.  It's demonization.  It can be equaled only with their demonization of George W. Bush. ...

January 12, 2017

The Real Reason Race Relations Have Deteriorated

The end of Obama presidency, along with Martin Luther King Day day, provide an opportunity to analyze race relations after eight years of the first (half) black president. From one perspective, it hasn’t been successful. That racial tensio...

August 27, 2016

The Hegelian Roots of BlackLivesMatter

Can one man -- a man who died in 1831 -- be blamed for Nazism, Communism and even the uprisings in places like Milwaukee and Ferguson? Karl Popper, Leo Strauss and Ayn Rand all suggested G.W.F Hegel, the greatest philosopher of the nineteenth century...