What Wildfires Can Teach Us About How To Fight Cultural Contagions
As we consider the cost of wildfires on our public lands, we should notice the parallels to the wildfires in our culture.
This Hawaiian Veteran’s Win For Gun Rights Would Be A Perfect Movie
George Young’s story would make a good drama about what 21st century America could learn from previous generations and how an aging patriot conceives of his legacy.
Virtue Signaling Is Now A Cheap, Prolific Substitute For Actual Virtue
The less prone we are to self-examination, the more self-aggrandizing we become in our denunciations. It’s making our society harsher.
Federalist Radio Hour: ‘Facebook, Where Truth Struggles To Live’
Ben Domenech talks to senior editor at the Atlantic, Derek Thompson, about the intersections of technology, social media, productivity and culture.
Podcast: Filmmaker Says The Life Of Elvis Presley Is A Metaphor For America
Mary Katharine Ham talks to director Eugene Jarecki about his new documentary, “The King,” and what Elvis can tell us about modern day culture and politics.
Why We Shouldn’t Trust An Originalist Supreme Court To Secure Our Liberties
Our triumphs are in establishing communities that offer real meaning and fellowship. We will need to do this even more as our legal and policy goals are achieved.
David Brooks Talks Faith, Community, And The American Establishment
David Brooks joins Ben Domenech on The Federalist Radio Hour to discuss the American cultural collapse of faith, trust, and community.
The Real Problem With Jordan Peterson’s Book Has Nothing To Do With Bigotry Or Sexism
A close read of the popular psychologist’s must-read book proves the silliness of claims his message is harmful to women and minorities. But it might threaten your soul.
Mary Katharine Ham: Comparing Roseanne And Samantha Bee Is Not A False Equivalency
‘These are two women public figures, attacking women public figures… They both use what is universally recognized as the worst terms about which you can talk about African Americans or women.’
No, Miss, Taking Off Your Clothes Won’t Create Social Justice
If ‘respectability politics’ is naively misguided, then so is the belief that professionalism and its attendant rules are a form of oppression or social injustice.
Podcast: The State Of Free Speech, Culture Wars, And Tolerance Of Ideas
Are we creating ridiculous standards of speech and thought such as “you can never say anything that the Internet dislikes”?
Is Jonah Goldberg Right About Why We’re Committing Cultural Suicide?
Jonah Golberg’s latest book, ‘Suicide of the West,’ is a timely and incisive reminder not to take liberalism and capitalism for granted, but its diagnosis of why liberalism is failing is somewhat incomplete.
You Need To Do A Lot More Than Voting To Be A Good Citizen
It is one thing for a guitar player to not understand the physics of a tube amplifier; it is another for a free citizen to not know the basics of the government he or she is part of.
Should The Sistine Chapel, Art Museums, And Zoos Turn Themselves Into Disney World?
This Vatican-approved showpiece’s subject matter is the Sistine Chapel, complete with projectors, fireworks, giant glow sticks, theatrical performers, ballet dancers, and colored lasers.
Why You Should Stop Listening To Oprah’s Therapeutic Poopytalk About ‘Being Yourself’
Oprah, the high priestess of telling people what they want to hear, recently advised a 14-year-old girl, ‘The highest honor on earth that you will ever have is the honor of being yourself.’ False.
I Bought A Military Rifle At Age Nine. That Was Normal, And There Were No Mass Shootings
Everyone had guns, but there were no school shootings. No movie theater massacres. No mass casualties caused by deranged and angry teenagers. But how could this be?
Is Dr. Jordan Peterson A Gateway Drug to Christianity, Or Just A Highbrow Joel Osteen?
Because of his understanding of rationalism and psychological emphasis, Jordan Peterson prepares the soul more for Gnostic spirituality than Christian orthodoxy.
How Politically Correct Art Is Leading To The Age Of Didacticism
The left, for all its institutional dominance in the arts, is substituting an uninspiring didacticism for artistic creativity.
Will 2018 Be The Year The Right Takes Our Media Deficit Seriously?
To continue to let the Left tell the story of America to Americans without competing fiercely in media isn’t just gross negligence: It’s cultural suicide.
The Real Reason Lewis Hamilton’s Post About His Dress-Wearing Nephew Was Stupid
Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton has been pressured into apologizing for telling his toddler nephew that ‘Boys don’t wear princess dresses.’
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