February 4, 2025

CNN’s new, shiny, useless ‘Fear And Greed’ Index

One recent morning, I woke up and discovered CNN Business’s new Fear & Greed Index: a rating of 0 being “extreme fear,” and a rating of 100 being “extreme greed.”  At the moment I’m writing this, they...

January 20, 2025

The Lousiest President of All Time

Anybody who wants to explain how bad the Biden administration is has to start with COVID.  As such, we knew a few things early on in the pandemic,  and they were as follows: The average age of death from the virus was in the 8...

October 21, 2024

Who Are the Lords of America?

Anthony Everitt says, in his biography of Cicero, that ancient Rome didn’t have any official police.  What they did have was families.  A particularly wealthy family with connections, usually led by a patriarch, would provid...

September 25, 2024

Why I Love Liberals (and You Should, Too)

Ayn Rand once said that in a totalitarian society like Soviet Russia, one kind of man that didn’t exist was the businessman.  I would add that there also aren’t many liberals.  There are, on the other hand, plenty of c...

September 7, 2024

Another ‘Mental Health’ Failure

The New York Times reports that paying too much attention to your mental health is bad for your mental health — something we knew, and have known, and have had in writing, since people were sacrificing goats to Pallas. They say, in an articl...

October 19, 2023

Republicans, Welcome to the Left Wing

“[Russell] Brand is not a threat to the elites,” says The Independent, a magazine owned since 2010 by Alexander Lebedev, Russian oligarch and former KGB agent. The irony in “Independent” was too fun to pass up there —...

September 2, 2023

'I'm with the banned books,' and other things liars say

Idaho News 6 reports that Concerned Citizens of Meridian wants to abolish Meridian's library district. This all sounds radical to me — but they already proposed four totally normal things, and it doesn't look as though the current distr...

April 26, 2023

The high cost of diversity hiring

Donald Glover says that when he became a writer for 30 Rock, Tina Fey told him he was a diversity hire.  To this anyone could ask, How does she know he's a diversity hire?  To that question I'd ask, How could anyone be sure he isn...

April 13, 2023

A Nightmare in the Pacific Northwest

People who say "love is love" are morons.  Living in Washington taught me that.  They never ask "how" or "for whom," and they somehow have the idea that you can just love, and everything will turn out...

December 10, 2022

A Fool Crisis in America

America doesn't have a mental health crisis.  We have a fool crisis, and if people would stop acting like fools, they would stop complaining about their mental health. Saying this out loud gets me in lots of trouble, the top reason b...

November 25, 2022

Our Favorite Words Don't Mean What They Used To

Some people say using your mind makes you "reasonable" — but most people, I think, use their minds to chase what they want.  This would explain the arguments that go nowhere, the evidence that gets buried; the mistakes that ...

October 5, 2022

The Rings of Power: The Good, the Bad, the Silly

Money can buy you lots of things, but it can't buy you good judgment — and if you don't have good judgment, you'll buy silly things.  This was always the problem with the parvenu.  He was too gaudy to fit in with...

June 19, 2022

Mind Your Manners, Mind Your Lies

Jesus said the truth will set you free, and it will — from friends.  I'm not saying go out and con all your friends, but the truth is that nobody wants to say the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and that's why we m...

June 16, 2022

Some evidence that race is more than just a social construct

The irony of g--k being used to describe the Vietnamese is that in Korean, han-guk literally means "a Korean person."  According to Col. Hackworth's war memoir About Face, the term was hijacked during the K...

June 5, 2022

Like It or Not, You're Getting a Two-Party System

People who complain about the two-party system are missing the point.  There has always been a two-party system, and there always will be, however we try to avoid it and whatever name we call it.   Aside from the fact that natu...

May 21, 2022

What the Blue-State Left-Coasters Don't Understand about Culture

Yesterday, I met a man from Mumbai.  He happened to mention that he was new to Idaho, so I asked how new, and it turned out he'd been here for only a month and a half.  He spoke good English, and I learned he'd gone to an ...

February 27, 2022

Why I'm Not a Libertarian

The reason I'm not a libertarian is because I'd like to be free.  The libertarian says he does, too, but is living proof that wanting something and getting it are two completely different matters — and his theory stands d...

February 23, 2022

No, Nope, No: It Is Not Time for a Civil War

Charlie Kirk was asked recently, at one of his lectures, whether now is a good time to "use the guns."  He answered that it isn't, and I agree with him but only partially for the reasons he stated. Simply put, the idea that...

January 14, 2022

Your body, my choice

I never actually believed in my body, my choice — not only because it was invented to dissect someone else's body, but because it was never legal to play with yourself in public.  I've seen people try, and it ends badly, ...

October 29, 2021

The End of Science

Rebecca West writes, in The New Meaning of Treason, that a lot of our scientists during World War 2 were communists.  There are several reasons this is important, but the first is that they immediately leaked our research on atomic bombs to...

October 10, 2021

Capitalist Realism and Real Capitalism

Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism was a joy to listen to and it cost me $5.  The reason I bring up the $5 is because Mark Fisher charged me this even though he hates capitalism.  Or his left-wing publisher charged me this.  Either w...

May 22, 2021

Two weeks – trust us.

Afternoon there, neighbor! There's a new disease in town, and I wanted you to know about it. It gives the chills and sweats and headaches  and fevers and diarrhea and a cough and it can kill you. Not a cold or a flu, but a new thing. It...

April 19, 2021

When Black Lives Matter and Matter and Matter...

I believe that black lives matter — but when it comes to Black Lives Matter, a little proportion goes a long way in society.  You have to realize how small you are to be a big deal in my book.  You have to play by ...

March 12, 2021

Thank God for Columbus

At the time Columbus discovered the New World , the great difference between the main Mexica god and the European God was that the European God would kill you for not being good, and the Mexica god would kill you for not being bad. Even when we ha...

December 3, 2020

Why Libertarianism Fails, Liberalism Lies, and Conservatism Limps

Two of my heroes are Ludwig von Mises and Ayn Rand, but for several reasons I could never consider myself a full-blown libertarian.  First off is the fact that you can and should legislate morality, and in fact every libertarian withou...

November 19, 2020

Why Not Trust Rudy Giuliani?

Rudy Giuliani says Dominion, the software company that ran the elections in our swing states, is actually a front company for Smartmatic.  The reason this is important is that Smartmatic is a company based in Venezuela and, beyond this, a c...

October 2, 2020

A Theory for Why Biden Can't Win Hispanics

I was raised to think of myself as Hispanic, but in retrospect, I was trained to worship like a white man.  My mother was from Honduras, but she might as well have come from Mayberry.  Back "home," our family history had...

August 20, 2020

The Increasingly Dangerous Presidency

Paul Johnson says, in his biography of Washington, that in 1789, the only monarch with powers as wide as the president's was the czar.  All the other ones were hemmed in by regulations.  Johnson doesn't go too far into det...

August 5, 2020

To Save America, Defund the Schools

I've just been informed by a friend that school's closed this year, but you can send your kid to daycare — in the closed school. For money. There are online classes, of course — but why?  They're terrible for...

June 8, 2020

What Do They Really Want?

Imani Bashir, writing for the New York Times, says, "Living abroad is my way of prolonging my black son's life."  It's actually the title of the article.  She says she's been living abroad for years now, in p...

March 11, 2020

How Black Republicans Gain Their Identity by Losing It

In America, a black intellectual only joins the human race by joining the right wing.  I had almost said when he votes Republican.  Nearly all the other black "thinkers," their writers and other disseminators of ideas, excluding m...

December 29, 2019

The Gay Mafia Comes to Idaho

A truce has been called between religious folks and gays.  Or at least that's what we're being told.  The Fairness for All Act, legislation intended to give rights to both Christian conservatives and transgenders, has been...

November 16, 2019

What Can We Really Blame the Boomers For?

So far as I'm aware, none of the big leaders of the Greatest Generation was a member of the Greatest Generation.  Sure, the Greatest did the grunt work — but was Patton one of them?  Was Churchill, or Eisenhower, or MacA...

July 13, 2019

On Being Half-White in America

What does it mean to be white?  Being half-Hispanic has led me to think lots on this subject, and I've found that to answer in the positive is impossible.  Almost, anyway.  Like all the racial categories, it comes in...

March 22, 2019

Black Professor Picks Feminism, Loses at Life

Brittney Cooper, author of the smash hit Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, wanted to be a professor, and she got it.  This is the basis of her complaint on NBC. Somebody told her, years ago, that th...

March 7, 2019

How Best to Celebrate Muslim Women's Day?

I don't know exactly what we're supposed to do for Muslim Women's Day, but my guess is that we give them what Mohammed did.  This means their testimony is worth only half a man's; that we may beat them if they speak out too ...

February 22, 2019

The Biggest Little Whorehouse in Germany

Once one country does something stupid, the question on everyone's mind is, who's next?  Thus, when France went psycho-liberal in 1789, everyone attacked the French, and when the Russians went Soviet, we adopted a policy of containm...

December 8, 2018

In defense of transgenders in sports

Far from being against transgenders in sports, I'm for it.  If possible, I'd like for all sports to be integrated immediately. For too long, leftists have been telling us the sexes were equal.  Then a 230-lb man named ...

November 25, 2018

For Better and for Worse: The Human Cost of the Internet

People say the internet is ruining us, but I don't buy it.  It's definitely ruining some of us.  Those of us who are worse would have been watching six hours of TV every day and killing themselves with opioids and cheap be...

November 22, 2018

Reminder: White Liberals Hate Living in Black Neighborhoods

Chris Hayes the liberal talking head says he's afraid of black people.  By saying it, he joins the ranks of Ta-Nehisi Coates, who wrote a whole book about it; Jesse Jackson, who worried out loud that one of them was going to mug or murd...

July 7, 2018

Preaching and Punching

Other people's opinions are distasteful at best and worth a hanging at worst.  That's why they belong to other people.  Who wants to eat ketchup on eggs, or vote for Bernie Sanders, or make love to a bald-headed 400-lb. ge...

May 20, 2018

Alien Animals in the Kingdom of Man

One giant thing that separates us from the animals is the fact that we separated ourselves from the animals.  Or rather, we put ourselves above them.  Some of us call it "the image of God," and others of us call it ...

April 29, 2018

You feel pretty? A counterpoint.

Amy Schumer's I Feel Pretty is the latest film in a long series of songs, books, movies, and sermons with a single and regrettable purpose: to tell women they're perfect.  We know that women aren't perfect, and that flattery exi...

April 8, 2018

Internet Liberals Give, and Internet Liberals Take Away

This has been an ominous month for the right wing.  Until now we had lived with the vestiges of "free speech" and believed, erroneously, that the internet would allow truth to be spread.  The truth about said truth is th...

March 25, 2018

On Getting Older and Turning into 'a Racist'

One thing I'm looking forward to as I get older is becoming more "racist."  I consider it one of the finer joys of aging.  Children are averse to this kind of thing because they have no idea, for instance, that handi...

March 4, 2018

A Nation of Children Wants a Nation of Gun Control

In the history of protests, there is probably nothing less inspiring than a high-schooler refusing to go to school.   It's as if the children threatened not to eat their vegetables; or as if a bad Catholic, upset with the bedrock teachi...

December 17, 2017

A Quick Fix to Restore Faith in Democracy

Democracy is just like anything else that's good in life, and that means it has to be moderated.  To this a lot of Americans respond that we don't live in a democracy; we live in a democratic republic, and I think saying anything th...

November 18, 2017

What Colin Kaepernick Needed

Colin Kaepernick's election as Gentleman Quarterly's Citizen of the Year brings up a number of questions.  What exactly it is that makes a good citizen is first and foremost among these, because Kaepernick has spent a good amount of his ...

November 2, 2017

How to Hire like a Psychopath

Whatever can be said for the genius of Adam Smith, he was only a man, and because he was a man, he was wrong about some things.  The first of them was that labor alone creates value (it doesn't).  The second was that businessmen act lik...

September 10, 2017

God's New Black Lives Matter Book

Michael Eric Dyson's Tears We Cannot Stop, the latest manifesto of black American activists, has been approved by the Holy Spirit, and thus it remains suspect.  This latest addition to the canon comes to us from St. Martin's Press (so yo...

September 3, 2017

The Problem of Motherhood for American Women

Someone writing for The New York Times loves being a mother, and that is why the Times' readers hate her.  In perhaps the most robust, earthy, energetic essay the paper has recently published, titled "Motherhood Isn't Sacrifice, It...

August 30, 2017

Do Americans even deserve their statues?

Someone threw buckets of red paint all over a statue of Christopher Columbus and made me question the value of great, great grandchildren.  The truth of the matter is that we love our children and their children, but when it comes to great grand...

August 11, 2017

Portrait of a Trump Abandoner

The Republican primaries are the last hope of American civilization and the exact opposite of American Idol.  Every season of American Idol, we started out with a lot of weirdos, and we ended up with a winner.  In the Republican primaries, ...

August 3, 2017

On Rebels and Pretenders

The hippies are nearly always good for a laugh unless you have to deal with one, and then they are downright insufferable.  Most people who call themselves hippies are actually just for natural living and easy vibes, but in reality, a hippie is ...

July 9, 2017

The New York Times Tries Out God's Megaphone

The New York Times ran an article the other day called "Does God want you to spend $300,000 on college?"  God couldn't be reached for comment, so the New York Times went to Notre Dame's Father John L. Jenkins.  When Father...

June 24, 2017

Equality as a Social Construct

One of the most brilliant things I've ever seen posted on Facebook was a picture of a hawk chasing a smaller bird and a caption that stated the following: Equality is a social construct.  In nature, nothing is equal. There are few things ...

April 27, 2017

First They Came for the Nazis

It's remarkable that the poem "First They Came" begins "first they came for the socialists," because the socialists came first, and they came for everyone else.  They didn't even come for the Jews first.  In fact...

April 14, 2017

The Question of Saving Syrian Children

I think any American at this point who has seen the videos of Syrian children getting gassed by Assad – any of us who has any tendency toward reflection – has been led to ask what exactly his feelings are for.  We know that every fee...

March 12, 2017

Dreaming of Right-Wing Women

I don't believe (whatever Schopenhauer said) that women in general are stupid, but I don't believe that the rumor's existence is entirely the fault of our men.  The women seem to have brought it on themselves.  If all our men we...

February 26, 2017

Why English Classes Should Be Racist

It is easy to make sure your going to judge me, and I have already done it.  It all lies in the "your."  The difference between "your" and "you're" is simple, but the fact that I've mistaken it isn'...

January 2, 2017

Carrie Fisher, World-Class Beauty

There is one thing shared by everyone who says Carrie Fisher should be remembered for her brains, and that is that none of them will be remembered for their brains.  That she was beautiful is beyond dispute, and she will be remembered as long as...

December 24, 2016

Baby, It’s Cold Outside (and How to Defend Yourself from Date Rape)

One thing that seems to have escaped feminists' notice in the controversy over "Baby, it's cold outside" is that the song is a duet.  Perhaps never in the history of rape or music or music about raping people has anyone ever to...

December 11, 2016

New York Times Pioneers New Feature: 'This Week in (White) Hate'

The New York Times has decided to run a new feature titled "This week in hate."  Cataloguing a series of hate crimes dating back to November 16, it strangely fails to mention November 28, when a young Somalian man in Ohio ran his ...

November 23, 2016

In Defense of Socialists

Let's say for a moment – hypothetically – that someone out there had a son, and the son hit his head, and hitting his head sent him into convulsions, and the going into convulsions sent the man's wife into a panic, and the panic s...

November 5, 2016

Why Everyone Hates Ayn Rand

Perhaps in the history of mankind, there has never been so enjoyable a teaching as Objectivism from so unlikeable a teacher as Ayn Rand.  Jesus Christ was so magnetic that He spent His days ruining dinner parties and insulting His followers ...

October 24, 2016

In Praise of Milo Yiannopoulos

I'll admit that I hated Milo at first.  Something about the way he was making fun of fat women.  He seemed undignified, cold, and low, taking the issue far beyond the ideology of leftists and turning it into something personal – s...

October 3, 2016

A Word about Welfare Queens and Their Defenders

If the editors of The Atlantic had ever seen Lost, they might remember a scene when Sawyer the lovable con-man explains his father's philosophy of stealing.  It runs, in entirety, that no matter who you are or what you do for a living, ...

September 18, 2016

On Paid Maternity Leave and Being 'as Good as a Man'

According to feminists, the whole idea of a woman entering the work force is that she is equally efficient doing a man's job.  To our surprise, women have now admitted they are unaware of the meaning of efficiency.  Nobody warned us, wh...

August 22, 2016

Sympathy for the Historical American Jingo

It's become very fashionable to ask us to walk a mile in a man's moccasins without wondering what it's like to be chased by someone with a tomahawk.  Nearly everyone feels comfortable condemning Andrew Jackson for how he treated the ...

August 20, 2016

Why Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Bad for Civilization

Fear is the basis of Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me.   Fear of the streets, fear of the schools, fear of the police – of losing control of one's body, of one's life, of one's family.  Many men have li...

August 10, 2016

A Black Activist Every Conservative Should Read

Distrusting both the judgment and the literacy of modern activists, I had originally intended to read Frederick Douglass or WEB Dubois as my introduction to black literature.  But skimming through an informal list of the Greatest Essayists of Al...

July 17, 2016

The Age of Bad Reasons

When a magazine like The Atlantic asks its readers whether they think reason or emotions are currently dominating the public discourse, I'm worried to see what the response is – not only because I have little faith in the peo...

January 30, 2016

The Oscars: Having an Opinion Is Now Racist

Anyone tolerant enough to have seen the first 20 minutes of Birdman knows that the Academy Awards are a matter of opinion – and that the opinion is oftentimes a bad one.  And this is because (whatever the people at the Academy Aw...

January 28, 2016

Donald Trump Is Aaron Burr Reincarnated

Nearly everyone knows that Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton, but almost nobody knows that Burr was wanted for murder while he was the vice president.  Few people are aware that Aaron Burr was even the vice president at all, and fewer would exp...

January 2, 2016

Concerning 'Dear White America' in the New York Times

The great irony of a hunger strike is that it does nothing to prove the morality of the hunger striker.  It does everything to prove the morality of the man he's striking against.  Millions of horrible people have been willing to die fo...

December 9, 2015

Never Take a Christian Leftist to the Zoo

It's the uncontested opinion of a very small circle of my friends that we will never take a Christian leftist to the zoo.  Aside from the fact that Christians have had a historical tendency to be thrown to the lions, there have been a few ca...

December 7, 2015

Why We Love Our Guns

Black people are almost the only people in the United States with any history of being enslaved, and almost all of them belong to the party working desperately hard to rush us back into slavery.  It's a masterstroke of irony fit for the movi...

November 24, 2015

How to Horrify Your Children

When Time Magazine asked Americans which of our practices would horrify our children, I don't think Cindy Crawford (and possibly even Time Magazine) understood the question.  Her answer was that our children would be horrified by our "o...

November 8, 2015

On the Greatness of Rome

Anyone with any brains knows that in order to be successful in any endeavor, a man's got to have two things.  The first is circumstances favorable enough to make the endeavor possible, and the second is a personal ability to take advantage o...

November 6, 2015

In Defense of Nativism

In the world of demographics, there are few kinds of people who can fairly be excused of nativism.  One of these kinds is the person who is about to move somewhere else. Nearly everyone else who asks to be excused from the accusation is a cow...

October 21, 2015

Jesus: Lord of the Rich?

If I could change one thing about Christianity today, I would make Jesus the God of the poor.  If this sounds as if I've forgotten all the passages about the meek inheriting the earth and camels going through the eye of a needle, some explan...

September 26, 2015

Obama the Christian Radical

One of the most frustrating characters in all of Christian history is Jesus, and mostly because you're never really sure whether to take His statements practically.  It might be fairly argued that He was never meant to be taken practically, ...

September 17, 2015

Why Republicans Deserve Obamacare

I was delighted to find in the New York Times recently that our hospital capitalists are beginning to wonder what their expenses are.  It's nice to finally have some company.  I've been wondering what my expenses are ever since...

September 10, 2015

You Cannot Be a Christian and Be a Christian

Spend any significant time reading the Bible, and you're sure to have encountered a certain saying that not many wise were called to be Christians. We have reason to believe that Paul was being serious when he said it.  Not only because t...

September 3, 2015

Miley Cyrus and the Post-Gender Generation

Solomon was meant to be taken generally, not literally.  And when he says there is nothing new under the sun, we are almost led to believe him entirely – if it hadn't been for automobiles and the internet and America.  About the r...

August 21, 2015

A Home for Black Lives Matter Activists

If I had to pick a single statement out of the Black Lives Matter campaign as a testament to their asininity, I would pick the moment they stormed Bernie Sanders's stage and told the audience they were standing on stolen Duwamish land. I'd...

August 17, 2015

'Death to America' and 'Black Lives Matter'

A short while ago, President Obama made a deal with Iran – a deal in which they got nearly everything they ever wanted out of us, and we got almost nothing we wanted out of them.  But what was most interesting about the agreement was that ...

June 28, 2015

Speak Now, or Forever Hold Your Peace

Although I've witnessed several horrible marriages in my lifetime, there was really only one time I ever felt forced to attend a wedding, and it involved a woman I very much adore marrying a man I never fully trusted.  I spoke at the wedding...

May 30, 2015

Amy Schumer, champion of feminine jealousy

One of the great tragedies of the modern era is that the people who are supposed to be championing the advancement of women know the least about the possibilities of womankind.  It doesn't help that the champions are women, and it doesn'...

May 13, 2015

Should women be allowed to drink?

In an age of social liberalism, you can expect to see many things become legal.  One thing that hasn't become legal and that almost nobody has considered legalizing is childhood drinking.  And the reason nobody has really suggested it i...

April 29, 2015

In Defense of an Openly Racist Magazine

One nearly universal fact of human nature is that if you tell people not to read something, they'll begin to want to read it.  Another fact of human nature is that if a man begins to feel like something's been hidden from him by the ...

April 19, 2015

So You Say You Hate the Puritans

Despite the fact that Oliver Cromwell was vastly superior to Charles I, I have yet to hear anyone praise Cromwell for deposing and killing the king.  There have been many reasonable objections to his killing of Charles, chief among them being th...

April 12, 2015

Homeschoolers and Gay Lovers

I heard someone express one time that a good number of Disney/Pixar films were aimed at getting children to come out of the closet.  I'm not so certain, after considering not only the number of gay people employed by Pixar, but the overwhelm...

April 1, 2015

Indiana Backlash: The Fight to Protect Labels, Not People

Due to a recent law protecting the rights of Indiana's business owners, in what has got to be the bravest political move in Seattle history, our mayor has finally decided to stop funding the extremely large number of city employee trips to Indian...

March 20, 2015

How to Celebrate Women (and How Not To)

Of all the classes I took in college, English 201 and Health stand out the most.  In English 201 we spent nearly all our time trying to misunderstand the English language, and in health class we spent nearly all our time trying not to catch vene...

February 8, 2015

In Defense of a Beautiful Boss

It shouldn't come as any surprise that someone out there writing for The Economist has a problem with the looks of our bosses.  Leftists have been waging a war against nearly every personal advantage for years: if they aren't upset becau...

January 4, 2015

Concerning the pornography in Game of Thrones

There was really only one reason why I hadn't started watching Game of Thrones until now, and it also happens to be the same reason why anyone with a healthy amount of modesty wouldn't tell anyone he's seen it.  The show's full o...

December 21, 2014

King Louie: The Greatest Racist of Them All?

One thing that's come into fashion lately has been people's tendency to mock Disney characters for being "racist."  Nobody questions whether the crows in Dumbo might have been modeled after real musicians of the era, and nobody...

December 15, 2014

An Ugly Word Worth Keeping

I've lived many places throughout my life, and this one, situated in the South, happens to be one of the worst.  And I say this because, on the right side of me and on the left, I'm neighbored by a racist and a redneck (respectively)....

October 18, 2014

The Devil's Christianity

It might be prudent to confess, before getting too far along with this essay, that I have nothing against Pope Francis except his politics.  It isn't that he's rude or selfish or uninspiring; anyone with half a brain knows that Pope Fran...

August 31, 2014

What kind of men are we?

One of the strangest periods of Roman history was the period right before the republic collapsed and became an empire.  The Romans weren't known for losing, but during this period, they lost nearly everything they put their hands to.  C...

July 13, 2014

A Case of Accidental Glorification

A couple of mornings ago I happened to find an article on Rachel Maddow's Facebook page about a new voting law in North Carolina.  Now, it's easy to guess what her position was on the matter, because nearly every leftist says the same th...

May 30, 2014

Kill a Child, Save the Planet

I've heard strangers say perhaps a dozen times that if the Native Americans had only kept control of the Americas, the environment would be in much better shape, but this is only half a truth.  It isn't so much that Native Americans were...

May 25, 2014

Compulsory Romance from the Likes of Louis CK

I just learned, after watching a 7-minute long (and slightly foul) Louis CK monologue, that I have a moral obligation to romance fat women.  The problem is, I’ve never had a fat girlfriend because I’ve never really wanted one.  ...

March 30, 2014

To Love Being American

If a person were ever truly interested in what makes Americans great, the most natural and enjoyable way would be to divorce his mind from an American perspective.  And if we're to escape the malicious slander of the foreign press and anyone...

March 19, 2014

Meet the Bossy Feminist

Nobody should ever suggest that leadership and assertiveness are mutually exclusive; all sensible people must agree that in order to lead, someone must give directions, and when the time comes for it, that those directions must be given strongly....

February 27, 2014

Eskimos and the New Genders

I remember hearing about ten years ago, from my professor of biological and cultural anthropology, that people had many names for the things most important to them.  She was specifically talking about Inuits, and how survival in the Alaskan wild...

October 9, 2013

The Impoverishment of American Conversation

I've become convinced that if there ever were a manly and profitable use of social networking, it would be to rarely post information about where the user is, or what he's doing, or how he's feeling, but always about what he's thinking.  And if ...

September 27, 2013

The Humanity of Hypocrisy: In Defense of Thomas Jefferson

I can't recall the exact number of times I've heard that Thomas Jefferson's opinions are irrelevant because he owned slaves, but if I could make an estimate, it would have to be about several dozen.  And if Jefferson were alone the subje...

September 15, 2013

The Myth of the Incorrigible American Genius

If I'm to concede a point to the advocates of diversity, it is that having multiple perspectives on certain practical matters is greatly beneficial.  Men, who can confuse custom for righteousness, are oftentimes so blind to the unreasonableness ...

September 1, 2013

Slutwalk in Seattle

If there exists a more undeniable testament to the mindlessness of some modern women than the Seattle Slutwalk, I would honestly like to know what it is.  The belief that after laws have been passed against rape, that after hefty penalties exist...

August 11, 2013

The Myth of the Mexican Work Ethic

There are two kinds of men that this article will necessarily offend.  The first, and most obvious, is the kind of man who honestly believes in an exceptional Mexican work ethic -- the man who attempts to befriend or utilize the Mexican populati...

August 4, 2013

The Plague of Republican Ignorance

It never fails to amaze me that in almost every random encounter with a Lutheran, I have found that he knows nothing of Martin Luther's theology.  Most glaringly, the Lutheran, as is often the case amongst mainstream Evangelicals, feels perfectl...

June 29, 2013

Paula Deen, Kid Rock, and Walmart: A Discourse on the Unprincipled Businessman

A long while ago, while I was in college, I remember reading an interview in Maxim Magazine which featured Kid Rock.  I remember at the time finding him interesting -- a man openly and fondly talking about crack-dealing and prostitution and such...

May 19, 2013

The irrational modern woman, sexual anarchy, and 'rape culture'

Having already expressed my profound admiration for womankind -- that Woman is worthy of protection and chivalry -- I must now express something far less comfortable, and yet vital to her well-being.  For in recent years I've become aware that m...

April 27, 2013

The Problem with Minority Parties: A Treatise on Higher and Lower Factions

The future of the Republican Party -- this is what they say of you, dear Hispanics.  But a future for better or for worse has yet to be seen. My suspicion has nothing to do with Hispanics' capabilities, nor with their civility -- for I know th...

April 21, 2013

The Trouble with Niceness

I couldn't have been more than ten when my grandma passed away.  I remember her, wasted away, lying on her bed in an aging manufactured home, with an IV in arm, dying of cancer.  By that point she'd been so saturated with morphine that conv...

March 17, 2013

Heritage as a Matter of the Will

Look closely at these two words -- heritage and destiny -- and see at once two concepts entirely different and yet intimately connected.  The former is what we have been, the latter what we will be -- and yet, if we simply describe heritage as w...

February 23, 2013

A Tyranny Effeminate

Forget the present era with all its corrosion and absurdities, dear reader, and hearken back to days of revolution -- not our own, but another.  Look across the Atlantic, where tumult and hope birthed misery and disaster, and French patriots ins...

January 24, 2013

Jesus is coming...for your guns!

Two thousand years of existence, two thousand years of heresies and reforms, abuses and revivals have bred a Christianity diverse and confusing, alive -- and yet smothered by itself. Should a man be surprised, then, when Christian youth magazines s...

December 15, 2012

The Failures of Democracy (an Ode to Aristides)

Oh, what America could do with an Aristides of Athens! Of humble birth but possessing a virtuous spirit, Aristides championed order and decency against both foreigner and citizen, rich and poor alike.  His triumphs too numerous to mention in s...

November 24, 2012

GM Wins, America Loses

Having already heard Obama praised, repeatedly, for saving GM, and having witnessed both presidential candidates show support for the company, I've decided that it's time to explain -- not in emotional terms or statistics, but in simple philosophical...

November 11, 2012

Of Moses and Mises: How Businesses Are Better Than Charities

The world has seen its fair share of injustice and stupidity, but there exists one particularly obnoxious sentiment, masked in pretenses of Christendom, which denies the moral importance of business and profit.  Citing most improperly Jesus Chri...

September 30, 2012

Why I'm a Christian Conservative (A Reply to Angry Libertarians)

To my right lies a book written by hymn writer and philosopher Isaac Watts, a textbook once used at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Yale for generations, to train men in the art of reason.  It opens thusly: The pursuit and acquisition of truth ...

September 22, 2012

Why I'm Not a Libertarian

Three hundred pages into Ludwig von Mises' economic masterpiece, Human Action, and I've found myself stopping for air.  I'm not fatigued, as I was 300 pages into John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion; I'm not confused, like I was in...

July 23, 2012

Obama, The Collective, and Us

Despite Republican disapprobation, some credit must be given to President Obama's notorious Roanoke statement: perhaps never in human history has division of labor been so pronounced, nor the mutual dependency of human beings so obvious.  For ev...

May 27, 2012

Market-Based Justice?

To whom has the Creator prescribed justice?  To the rich, or to the poor? Beneath every breast a singular answer lies, being placed by that holy finger therein so that men, having no excuse in transgression, could be brought to account for every...

April 12, 2012

Lessons from Rome about Liberal Unity

Rome, I have been told by a certain Titus Livius, was a city founded upon the principle of clemency.  Romulus, knowing well that his survival depended partially upon numbers, granted safe haven to any man, foreigner and Italian alike, in search ...

February 25, 2012

The Honorable Clerk

If one happens to be in the market for a cultural shock, he oftentimes needs only rent a movie from the 1940s.  In my particular case, I had the pleasure of watching a Jimmy Stewart movie titled The Shop Around the Corner, a film excellent in ev...

January 29, 2012

The Wives of Others: Covetousness and Social Liberalism

There was a time, before I was a Christian, when I met a young Midwestern blonde in college.  I spent my time between classes trying to get her attention, eventually getting her number and being invited to many of her parties.  But despite ...

January 15, 2012

America, Rome, and Military Expenditures

Perhaps one of the most striking features of the Roman Empire, as noted by countless historians, is the amount of time in which it maintained nearly total supremacy over such a vast portion of the human race. Edward Gibbon, in his historical masterpi...

December 25, 2011

Jesus: The True American Dream

America, though often derided and hated -- perhaps not explicitly, but silently -- by the left, oftentimes experiences the opposite problem from its most ardent admirers, the conservatives.  Through their admiration, perhaps condensed most perfe...

December 17, 2011

OWS and the Constitutional Right to Peaceable Assembly

The other day, I encountered an unusually poignant leftist argument, delivered in picture form.  The top of the picture was a bird's-eye view of campers outside a theater, their tents haphazardly amassed in anticipation of the new Twilight film'...

November 20, 2011

Are markets intrinsically moral?

The other day, a leftist Mormon acquaintance of mine and I had a brief conversation about Mitt Romney's candidacy for president.  I, being staunchly anti-RINO, and refusing to believe for one second that a candidate's deeply held religious belie...

November 5, 2011

The Restoration of American Ingenuity

In a recent article from CNN, an intelligent gentleman, Douglas Rushkoff, took note that technological advancements in the production of necessities are trending toward the destruction of certain jobs, as most of what Americans need is produced by an...

October 9, 2011

Natural and Artificial Camaraderie

A short while ago, I encountered an unusually bizarre speech on a leftist site.  A cancer survivor, Jim Gilliam, detailing his physical and emotional struggles with cancer, explained how his very survival depended not only upon his determination...

September 25, 2011

How the Dual Income Destroys the Lower Classes

It is oftentimes complained, partially unfairly, that the American lower classes are getting poorer and poorer.  But enough has been written, by practically every conservative think-tank, about how the welfare state and anti-discrimination legis...

August 27, 2011

Civilization versus the Barbarian

One of the most important questions facing civilization -- not only in light of the savagery of London's riots, but in all of history -- is how civilization defines barbarism. The need for such a definition is not restricted to the cause of conserv...

August 13, 2011

A National American Language

As a liberal government seeks to import and accommodate not only a greater diversity of peoples, but the greater diversity of lifestyles and doctrines which accompany them, the topic of a national American language has become increasingly controversi...

August 6, 2011

Teachers and the Question of Corporal Punishment

In recent years, great controversies have spanned across all news networks, with their focus being the extent of the teacher's control over children.  Central to these controversies is the question of whether a child should be disciplined by his...

July 23, 2011

Of Rebels and Rebellions

It has been claimed, by prominent media outlets and even the American government, that right-wing movements comprise insurrectionary parties and that many conservatives are inherently opposed to the existence of our current government.  But by f...

July 16, 2011

When to Protect Americans Abroad (Hint: Not All the Time)

To what extent must Americans sacrifice to protect their citizens abroad?  This question was recently raised by the sitting American president as he sought to avoid the death penalty for a notorious Mexican national who had raped and murdered a ...

July 10, 2011

Problems with Modern Liberty of Speech

In John Stuart Mill's most influential and widely read work, On Liberty, he defended what he considered one of the most important pillars of any successful society: liberty of thought, and consequently of speech.  And it is plain from reading On...

June 19, 2011

When the Pursuit of Liberty Is Liberty's Greatest Enemy

It has been said by persons such as Abraham Lincoln that the cause of tyranny can oftentimes be mistaken for and promoted as the cause of liberty.  To prevent such a destructive misconception from metastasizing, Americans must concern themselves...

May 8, 2011

The Noble Mother

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March 27, 2011

The Question of Imperialism

Of the many difficult questions a person can ask about the rights of man, one of the toughest is whether the people of a country are ever their own supreme authority.  To err toward an absolute "yes" or "no" seems to lend cre...

March 5, 2011

Quitting Kumbaya: Why Division Works

The other day, I greatly offended an Arab associate of mine.  During a conversation about the social contract, I tried to use an example of a group forming itself into a nation.  I had begun the example with the statement, "suppose tha...

February 6, 2011

Privilege, Equality, and Law

Few, at least in our times, can resist the emotional appeal of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech.  Somewhere, deep within the human soul, we long for a time when true equality can be found in human interaction, the day ...

January 23, 2011

Unsociable Socialism and the Benevolent State

The other morning, as I was writing articles in my computer room, I heard a woman scream.   Immediately, my attention was wrested away from my writing.  I sat up straight and waited in silence, listening for any clues that someone was in da...

January 22, 2011

Losing the War against Drugs

I can still vividly remember walking through run-down Neapolitan suburbs as a seventeen-year old, firmly within the grasp of an LSD trip.  As I walked through the tall, unkempt grass and weeds, they brushed against my knees as though greeting me...

December 31, 2010

Law in the Empathetic Society

Must an increase in empathy signal a decrease in law?Let us consider, for a moment, that someone has wronged you by stealing your car.  When the person is caught by police, you have the option to press charges, but then you discover that your ne...

December 26, 2010

Questioning the Dispensation of State Violence

Imagine, for a moment, that your boss has been treating you poorly (for many of you, this may not be very difficult).  After weeks of abuse, you finally become so frustrated that you start to wonder whether you should finally quit your job and j...

December 11, 2010

When Beauty and Heroism are Wrong

The other day, I came across a feminist blog about the movie Tangled, a movie I know almost nothing about other than that it's racist, sexist, and evil.  Girl With Pen writes: "The bad news is that it re-hashes the same old story -- that as...

November 10, 2010

Defending President Bush in three easy steps

With the release of President Bush' memoirs, a lot of discussion is taking place about his most controversial endeavor: the invasion of Iraq. Here's a short list of facts to use to combat the "Bush lied, kids died" non-argument, using UN Se...

September 19, 2010

Us and Them: The Liberal Concept of Belonging

Most Leftists enjoy thinking of themselves as colorblind philanthropists, hell-bent on erasing bigotry from the public mind, bringing every racial category into economic harmony, and uniting every culture in a sort of tolerant, egalitarian utopia....

July 8, 2010

Finding the right time for ridicule

I can still remember, sometime back in my hipster days a couple of years ago, near the dawn of my own conservatism, entering a bar which used to be my favorite and having something tweak my brain in the strangest way.  There I was, with my long ...