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February 4, 2025
The Kids Are Not AlrightIt comes as no shock to most people reading this that the state of education in this country is more dismal than ever before. As just one example, according to The Nation’s Report Card website, just 30% of American public-school 4th graders are...
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April 14, 2023
Bravery, Then and Now22 years ago, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks collaborated to make perhaps the finest television show ever produced in the history of television, a 10-part miniseries called Band of Brothers. Based on a book by historian Stephen Ambrose, the ser...
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April 10, 2023
The Return to Enumerated Powers AmericaIt probably isn’t lost on most readers that conservatives aren’t always the best at articulating grand visions for the future or for the course of the country. Conservatives are very good at diagnosing problems and lobbying for the ...
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March 20, 2023
Is the Mask of the Green Cult Finally Coming Off?For decades now, you have heard leftist ear sores bloviate endlessly about "climate change." The world will end in a decade if we don't take action now! screams AOC. However, the more skeptical and rational among u...
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March 18, 2023
Democrat Plans Looking Bad, So Biden Pivots AgainThe classic "Man Bites Dog" news story title is intended to catch the eye. As the news of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failure and Joe Biden's proposed 2024 budget begins to unfold, the Biden administration begins to try to ...
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March 16, 2023
The Communist Tortoise and the Communist HareWhen many people of the 21st century think of communist authoritarianism, they probably tend to think of the horrific genocidal regimes of dictators like Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot. Their approaches to political dissidents and Marxist theory...
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March 12, 2023
What Science, Exactly, Does the Left Follow?Over the past few years, one of the rallying cries and favored slogans of the left, for many cultural and political issues at least, has been, “Follow the science!” You heard Saint Fauci and company say it ad nauseam throughout the ...
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March 10, 2023
An America shot through with MarxismA few months ago, I was asked to write a book review for an American Thinker reader named Leslie Stein, an associate professor of economics at the University of Macquarie, in Sydney, Australia. He has written four books in total, including...
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July 15, 2022
Postmodernism: Understanding the Roots of WokenessYou may have noticed that, especially in the last few years, western civilization, and American society generally, seems to have plunged into an abyss of insanity, depravity, and general confusion. With the introduction to concepts like “...
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February 27, 2022
Time for America to cry the battle cry of freedom againDuring the American Civil War, one of the most popular battle songs sung by the Union was called, "The Battle Cry of Freedom." The opening to the chorus of the song begins, "The Union forever, hurrah! Boys, hurrah...
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February 18, 2022
The Left’s Orwellian Newspeak: the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion DelusionAnyone who is familiar with the Dystopian (and alarmingly relevant) novel “1984” by George Orwell is familiar with the concept of ”Newspeak.” In short, “Newspeak” is the language that the citizens of the...
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February 17, 2022
The Progressives’ Reverse Midas Touch in EducationEvery 3 years, an international assessment of the academic performance of 15-year-old students in the academic fields of reading, science, and mathematics, known as the Program for International Student assessment (PISA) is administered. 79 cou...
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February 15, 2022
America Is Approaching Financial DoomsdaySince 1947, just two years after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has maintained what is known as a "Doomsday Clock." This clock is reset annually and is supposed to me...
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February 3, 2022
In an America full of craven Parises, be an AgamemnonAnyone who is even passingly familiar with Homer’s epic poem The Iliad knows that it is an epic tale of betrayal, war, and retribution. The story describes a 10 year-long siege by a newly United Greece against the city of Troy, whose ...