February 1, 2019

The big reveal of January 2019

When historians of the future write about our own time, they will surely see January 2019 as a turning point, when the new America was laid bare for all to see.  This past month marked a point of no return.  The forces arrayed against the r...

June 23, 2018

Run for the border: The Russia probe is over

What happened to Russia? Until a week ago, the feverish conspiracy theorists whom some people still call "journalists" were in full florid mode, spitballing fragment after fragment of rumor, innuendo, and half-truth to support the wild n...

July 8, 2016

Jiang Qing: Wife of Mao Zedong, Cruel Manipulator, Feminist

Jiang Qing was born in 1914 in an unremarkable corner of China.  After a series of family hardships and an early disappointment in love, Jiang ended up at Qingdao University.  There she underwent a conversion to radical left-wing politics a...

November 14, 2015

The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Two Faces of the American Academy

By most measures, American universities are the envy of the entire world.  Of the top thirty universities affiliated with Nobel Prize winners, for example, eighteen are in the United States.  According to the U.S. News and World Report rank...

June 29, 2015

Dissolving America

The instant media consensus is in: the Confederate flag atop the South Carolina statehouse has got to go.  The battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, we are told, just doesn’t represent who we are as a nation anymore. But if we a...

October 27, 2014

Obama Wants the Democrats to Lose

We were told by nearly every outlet of the liberal media in 2008 that Barack Hussein Obama had transformed the political landscape.  The politician that transcended politics, Obama was to be the defining figure of his generation, a Reaganesque i...