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  • Patriotism Shouldn’t Be Partisan

    Patriotism Shouldn’t Be Partisan13

    In recent decades, patriotism has become partisan, a sentiment reserved for conservatives while frowned upon by the left. This distaste is spreading to those further on the right. They maintain a nationalist attitude, but discard patriotism as pointless. Yet to have a proper perspective on nationalism, patriotism is crucial, for it helps us have a

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  • Patriotism Isn’t Fascism

    Patriotism Isn’t Fascism0

    Last week my friend John was chatting with a trainer at the gym, who complained that patrons were putting their trash into the wrong recycling bins. John, who keeps up with this sort of thing, explained to him that it probably made little difference since the United States only recycles a fraction of its plastic

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  • Patriotism Is Cool Again

    Patriotism Is Cool Again22

    “Young people these days” get an awful bad rap. Boomers and Generation X tend to view Generation Z and millennials as immature political activists glued to their flickering screens, ungratefully destroying the country which older generations tirelessly built. But a lot could be said about the boomer mind’s unfair assessment of young people’s beliefs, financial

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  • Patrick Deneen: Why Liberalism Has Failed

    Patrick Deneen: Why Liberalism Has Failed0

    Patrick Deneen’s thoughtful book poses a challenge to libertarians. Deneen, a political theorist who teaches at Notre Dame, has with great force identified a fundamental tendency of our times. Destruction of traditional attachments to family, local institutions, culture, and virtuous behavior isolates individuals and makes them dependent on an all-powerful government. In arguing in this

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  • Patients Threatened by Reparations Medicine

    Patients Threatened by Reparations Medicine0

    If you’re white and middle class, the push for health care “equity” could kill you. Prominent medical organizations and the Biden administration are pushing for rules that will move “disadvantaged” populations to the front of the line for scarce medical resources—think vaccines, ventilators, monoclonal antibody treatments. That means everyone else waits longer, in some cases

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  • Patients Fearing COVID-19 Risk Their Lives By Delaying Medical Care

    Patients Fearing COVID-19 Risk Their Lives By Delaying Medical Care0

    “Where have all the patients gone?” That’s what doctors in our West Virginia University hospitals began asking as the coronavirus pandemic spread. We were prepared for a rise in COVID-19 patients, but we didn’t expect the sharp decline we saw in everyday cases. Our emergency department visits fell by half in early April, a time

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