Public discourse is at a nadir. There is plenty of debate, especially over politics and morality. But it is generating way more heat than light. People on all sides are frustrated with their opponents. “Why don’t they see the light?” For any single interlocutor, one possible answer is that the person is not actually seeking
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A daily diet of negative stories about America’s impending collapse feed today’s headlines. Yet such alarmist tendencies conceal the complexity of the American experience. Reality demonstrates that America still excels at attracting citizens from around the globe, partially due to its superb ability to mobilize resources and institutions to support individual achievement. Nothing illustrates the
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Next week, a young college student will face a federal judge in Washington, D.C., at a sentencing hearing over his nonviolent participation in the Jan. 6 Capitol rally. UCLA undergrad Christian Secor was arrested last February and spent more than a month in solitary confinement. Think about that. Unlike the weekly parade of repeat violent
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We’ve all seen the evolving wokeness of the U.S. military. That wokeness is now growing so entrenched that American Thinker’s Andrea Widberg asks the question that many of us are wondering: “Is Biden deliberately destroying America’s military defenses?” Turning the attention of readers to a new program offered by the U.S. Air Force Academy for
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PayPal users beware. Although PayPal has stopped saying it will seize the money in your PayPal account for posting or purchasing “misinformation,” it still says it can seize your money—and fine you $2500—for “racial or other forms of intolerance” or the “promotion of hate” (including paying for publications that promote hate or discrimination—libraries buy copies
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I came across some good news today. The kind of news that makes me think there is some hope for America and its citizens. “What is this good news?” you might ask. It’s simple, really: schools are beginning to teach phonics again. “Is that all?” I can hear you reply. “That’s not such a big
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