Why Sheltering At Home Isn’t Necessarily Making Us All Better Neighbors
If you don’t think you need the people in your community, you can afford to insult them, treat them rudely, or buy the entire shelf of wheat flour at the local grocer.
Hawley: How Our Collapse Of Community Relationships Threatens Liberty
‘The most telling economic divide in the country is between Americans with a high school degree and those who have four-year college degrees or more.’
‘Downton Abbey’ Offers Neighborhood Happiness That Springsteen’s America Lacks
The comforts of Downton Abbey come at a cost, yet are we really all that happy out here under ‘Western Stars,’ in perpetual pursuit of our own solitary satisfactions?
Why Letting Children Vote Makes Sense To Liberals
Giving children the vote will not protect children’s interests or benefit the nation. These ends can only be accomplished if adults limit their individual autonomy in service to the common good.
The Right’s Biggest Struggle Today Is Confronting What The Market Does To Communities
Conservatives know how to resist the bad ideas of the left. We are less sure how to restrain or mitigate the harm that markets and new technologies can do to social cohesion and communities.
Now That YouTube Bans Everything But Twerking Drag Kids, The Right Needs More Than Just Yelling ‘Stop’
What do you do when you’re amidst a handful of activists determined to destroy the foundations of a society from within? You treat them like insurgents, and you root them out.
For Americans To Have Freedom, They Must Revive The Common Good
Full human flourishing is communal, not individual. Political liberalism must recognize this inherent truth in order to succeed.
How Overemphasizing Individualism Made Liberalism Morally Bankrupt
As a political theory for rational, autonomous adults, liberalism has no place for the dependent and disabled, against whom Western liberal nations are engaged in a quiet genocide.
Tim Burton’s ‘Dumbo’ Is A Dark But Beautiful Celebration Of Individualism
Tim Burton’s ‘Dumbo’ conveys to viewers that from now on, we must look to ourselves for freedom, not to larger-than-life fantasies.
Lebron James’s School Pays Forward The Substitute Fathering That Changed His Life
Collectivism failed a young LeBron James a dozen times over, before an individual stepped in and changed his life forever. Now he is doing the same.
How Star Trek Became A Tribal Battleground Of PC Art
Why is it ‘weird’ for Ted Cruz to be a Star Trek fan? Because the left is using PC didacticism to mark off parts of the culture as their tribal territory.
Paul Winfree: Radical Individualism Is Not The Problem Trump Needs To Fix
The form of nationalism that is present today, and to which Trump seems to subscribe, is a reaction to something that has been going within our communities.
Why Won’t The Nightmare Dream Of Communism Die?
A century of Communism achieved four main results: poverty, oppression, war, and mass death. So why does anybody still think collectivism is ‘idealistic’?
This Weekend’s ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Needs To Bring Balance To The Trek
With ‘Star Trek: Discovery,’ the franchise has a chance to return to its TV roots and the high-concept sci-fi story-telling that made it a cult favorite.
Both The Radical Left And White Nationalists Have False Visions Of Western Civilization
The white supremacist pose towards cultural ‘defense’ is a shame and a sham, while the project of defending civilization against ignorance and decadence is well worth pursuing.
Are White Nationalists Just Sexually Frustrated Lost Boys?
We amateur psychologists diagnosing frustrated males may be ignoring an inconvenient truth: that we are afflicted with the same disorder. Our symptoms just aren’t as severe.
‘Beartown’ Asks What Makes A Community Great—And What Makes It Good
Reading ‘Beartown’ reminded me of the desire at the heart of most people, in and outside sporting communities: We want to win.
What Happens When Socialization Shifts From Front Porches To Coffee Shops
The contemporary coffee shop has become a setting where we go to do our work, browse the Internet, or carry out another kind of activity that entails little to no interaction with others.
‘Alien: Covenant’ Shows How Being Nice Can Be Suicidal
Had the crew in ‘Alien: Covenant’ included a couple of gloomy, maladjusted types, and had they listened to any of them, things would have gone better.
Nationalism Is Just Socialism Draped In A Flag
As anyone familiar with political history could attest, the embrace of social statism isn’t some strategy intended to serve a separate and external goal of nationalism. It is the goal.