A new book on the labor practices of grocery stores diagnoses problems in America’s service sector but misses the mark in recommending solutions.
Tag: the Left
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Hochul’s Folly: Sanctuary Politics Over Public Safety
A radical new proposal in New York is about to make the state even more unattractive and unsafe than it already is.
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Selfish Liberals Hate Selfless Marital Love
A life devoted to empty self-fulfillment will often be quite unfulfilling.
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No, Viktor Orbán’s Defeat Is Not a Defeat for National Conservatism
Although Hungary ousted its pioneering national conservative leader after his long incumbency, the movement he started is far from finished.
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Lessons From Orbán’s Loss in Hungary
The U.S. should have encouraged broader engagement with European allies like Viktor Orbán to prevent the ascendancy of the leftist European Union.
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‘Culture Care’ on the Edges
A new book presents a healthy picture of what makes for a thriving, generative, and life-affirming culture, but it misses the mark in directing that advice to only one side of the divide.
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Shaping a Post-War Iran
A plan for de-escalation that secures the administration’s early wins is in the best interest of all parties—including the saner elements in Iran.
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The GOP’s Foolish Praise for ‘Moderates’ and Failed Courting of ‘Natural Conservatives’
If the right ever expects to gain political ground, it needs to stop ceding rhetorical ground to Democrats and start cultivating voters who are already inclined to support their policies.
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Why Are Anti-ICE Activists Building Borders?
The anti-ICE activists who are checking IDs and setting up roadblocks in Minneapolis are not harmless citizen activists. They are insurrectionists.
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Renee Good Endangered Her Life—and Yours
Activism that abets law-breaking is the moral equivalent of racketeering, and it might meet the legal definition, too.
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Mamdani’s ‘Warm Collectivism’ Is Just Anti-White Hatred
The ideology that’s operating behind the curtain of New York City’s mayoralty.
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Ten Years Later, Terror Goes Unnamed
Recalling the San Bernardino massacre that the left would rather you forget.
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The Social Justice Left Wants to Ruin Skateboarding
Skateboarding is a uniquely American cultural phenomenon that, like all American inventions, cuts across divisions instead of accentuating them.
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Who’s Afraid of Christian Zionism?
Some thoughts on the various incarnations of ‘Christian Zionism’ and what we need to resolve the intra-familial quarrel now poisoning our politics.
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Yes, President Trump Can Blow Up Drug Boats
The president has both the constitutional and the statutory authority to carry out operations aimed at designated terrorist groups engaged in drug trafficking.
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The Latest Rift in the Democrats’ Coalition: Big Tech vs. Environmentalists
As the use of power-hungry artificial intelligence grows, the Democratic Party will have to reckon with the growing rift between Big Tech and environmentalists.
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Charlie Kirk and the Rhetoric of the Saloon
The American right must come to grips with the nasty fact that it is not in a polite debate, but rather in a rhetorical bar fight.
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The Laughable Hypocrisy of Joyce Vance
A left-wing attorney’s new book on “our democracy” relies on vacuous clichés and shopworn slogans rather than a cogent argument.
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Charlie Kirk’s Apostasy: Not Believing in Black Girl Magic
Nikole Hannah-Jones, of 1619 Project infamy, attempts to discredit Charlie Kirk but ends up displaying her own lack of brain power.
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What Will It Take to Squash the Pending Insurrection?
There is no reason to believe that yet another Republican victory at the ballot box will be enough to put a stop to the insurrectionist behavior of the global left.
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Cancel the Left Before It Cancels You
Magnanimity in the face of a murderous ideology is foolish. We have to reset the ground rules for civil society before we can talk seriously to our opponents about respecting their “free speech.”
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Conservatism Amid the Signal Flood
Every medium and every change in technology generates new fears about the same old problem—the human tendency to ideological and political theater born of our inevitable and incomplete understanding.
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The Internet and the Left Killed Charlie Kirk
The internet’s addiction machine—the toxic brew of porn and left-wing political extremism—is capturing a generation of young men and making many of them violent.
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Assata Shakur and Other Parents of Political Violence
The left-wing extremists of the 1960s and ‘70s didn't pay a very high reputational price—nor, in many cases, a legal price—for their violent politics. We need to do better now.
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A Left-Wing Meme Collapses On Itself
The “disinformation researcher lady” meme that was meant to poke fun at the right falls flat as it showcases leftist ignorance of their political opponents.
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Democrat Extremism Underwrites Trump
The issues Democrats lost on last November are the same issues they continue to fight Trump on now.
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The Political Divide Is More Dangerous Than the Right Thinks
The wokeified rhetoric of the left still wins over a substantial number of voters in Western countries who will not be won over by the good results of conservative governments.
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Vice-Signaling Bad Boys of the Right Do Us No Favors
In breaking down the left’s taboos, too many of us on the right have indulged in embracing being called the bad guy. It’s not helpful.
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The Right Wing’s Institutional Problem
Given the left’s long march through our institutions, we cannot trust that those beholden to such institutions—even if they are on the right—can prevail in politics without a new understanding of the game.
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The Platinum Rule?
A health insurer’s missive attempts to advance DEI by subverting and surpassing the Golden Rule.
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Will the GOP Make Liberals Generous Again?
Are wealthy liberals willing to put their money where their mouths are?
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How Progressive Researchers Are Trying to Turn Men Into Victims of Sexual Violence
A new “made to penetrate” category of rape attempts to expand the definition of sexual violence and blur the distinction between male and female sexuality.
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Winning, Even When It Doesn’t Feel Like It
Perpetual skeptics would do well to consider how far the right has come in the last five years, even as they count the battles left to fight.
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In Defeat, Leftists Attempt to Repair Families and Friendships Broken by Politics
After a decade of politicizing everything, leftists now feel compelled to make nice with friends and family members they snubbed.
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The Left’s Concert of Violence
When America rejected the left, they viewed it not as a rejection of their policies, but as a rejection of them as people. Many leftists feel justified in lashing out.
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Mamdani Shows Democrats Can’t Quit Obamaism
Obamaism is sinking the Democratic Party but they can’t quit it.
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Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt Takes the Left to Court
In his new book, Senator Eric Schmitt shows that with determination and intelligent legal arguments, the right can mount an effective legal offense against the left.
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What Trump Knows About Superman
Donald Trump understands America and Superman better than the Hollywood director who tries to pull a fast one in this new adaptation.
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Surviving the Left’s Shame Storm
The feeling of intense shame is a difficult thing to navigate—which is precisely why the left has weaponized it.
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The Moral Error in Calling Mamdani a Commie
The temptation to label today’s leftists “socialists” or “communists” is a Cold War hangover that misunderstands today’s fight with the left: it’s about morals and culture, not economics.
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ICE and the Screams of the Damned
There is no reasoning with the irrational souls who want nothing but for the rest of us to join them in their hell.
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The Anti-Biden Son of Scranton
Robert Casey, a champion of America’s most vulnerable minority, died without regrets—because Casey was everything Joe Biden was not.
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Florida Delivers a Stunning Defeat to DEI
Santa Ono, the DEI fanatic and former president of the University of Michigan, was rejected by Florida’s Board of Governors in his bid to become University of Florida’s new president.
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Why ‘Tit for Tat’ Lawfare Is Necessary
Public trust in the judiciary is collapsing. To restore it, conservatives need to stop restraining themselves in the face of leftist lawfare.
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Trump Strikes a Nerve With White Genocide Talk
To the left-wing media, South Africa is not repressing its white population (but it would be good if it did).
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Bruce Springsteen May Be a Woke Loser, But His Art Is MAGA
It is fascinating to see how the musician’s political opinions diverge so greatly from the art that made him rich and famous.
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How Leftist Sophistry Hurts the Environment
The dishonesty and ideological blinders of the left have polluted the discussion about our real environmental problems.
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Mutually Assured Law Enforcement Destruction
The only way to end politicized lawfare is to make the left feel it.
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In Memoriam: David Horowitz
A man who spent the second half of his life warning the world about his first half, leaves behind a legacy of fierce loyalty and love for the fight.