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  • The Civics Lessons They Never Teach Anymore

    The Civics Lessons They Never Teach Anymore0

    Following Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court, my morning commute was wall-to-wall with it, including plenty of weasel words (e.g., Senator Schumer’s fixation on tarring him as “outside the mainstream”) and heat (e.g., Congresswoman Pelosi’s assertion it was “a very hostile appointment”). One talking head quipped that the acute divide was because Americans weren’t

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  • Should we Subsidize Universities that Restrict Free Speech?

    Should we Subsidize Universities that Restrict Free Speech?0

    Trump has threatened to cut-off Federal aid to the University of California, Berkeley, after protests and property destruction on and around the campus blocked right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking.  The University of California system “receives billions of dollars from the federal government to fund a variety of programs, notably research, student aid and healthcare programs.”

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  • Should Teachers Have a Working Knowledge of the Constitution?

    Should Teachers Have a Working Knowledge of the Constitution?0

    Given that only 1 in 4 American high school seniors are proficient in civics and 1 in 10 are proficient in U.S. history, one would think that schools would sense an urgency to beef up their offerings and emphasis in these areas. But while that may be the case in some states, it doesn’t seem

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  • Reagan Biographer: Trump is Last Hope of Reaganism

    Reagan Biographer: Trump is Last Hope of Reaganism0

    Republicans today idolize Ronald Reagan more than any historic figure with the possible exception of Jesus. He is the gold standard of GOP politics, quoted on the stump by would-be lawmakers at the local, state, and federal levels, wonks at policy centers, and Bible-toting evangelicals. In the Washington Post on Monday, on what would have

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  • Our So-Called ‘Tolerant’ Society Is Actually Very Dogmatic

    Our So-Called ‘Tolerant’ Society Is Actually Very Dogmatic0

    The Book of Daniel tells us that the three Jewish youths in Babylon were cast into a “white-hot furnace” for not falling down and worshipping the king’s golden statue. Thousands of early Christians were reportedly martyred for refusing to deny Christ and affirm the divinity of the Roman emperor. Of course, this kind of thing

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  • Liberals Have Become the New Confederates

    Liberals Have Become the New Confederates0

    “The South will rise again.”  How often did that rallying cry echo throughout a certain portion of the country following the Civil War? A lot. Actually, the South has risen in any number of very positive ways in the century and a half since that terrible, but terribly necessary, war. This is especially true in

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  • Immigration Lessons for President Trump from Thomas Aquinas

    Immigration Lessons for President Trump from Thomas Aquinas0

    I am grateful to The Imaginative Conservative for publishing Fr. Dwight Longenecker’s reasoned defence of President Trump’s executive order placing a ninety day moratorium on immigration from countries deemed to pose a terrorist threat to the United States. I am grateful also for a recent essay by John Horvat II in which Mr. Horvat discusses what

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  • What the Teleprompter Tells Us About Truth, Trump and Speech

    What the Teleprompter Tells Us About Truth, Trump and Speech0

    We watch them giving speeches. Their delivery is enthusiastic, fiery, full of pathos. They pause at length, as if to think. They continue talking. They are applauded for their eloquence and their sincerity. Yet, on either side of their podium, we spy a set of transparent boards, on which a text is screened for the

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  • Protesters at Berkeley Reminiscent of French Revolution Mobs

    Protesters at Berkeley Reminiscent of French Revolution Mobs0

    Wednesday night at the University of California at Berkeley, a huge mob of protestors successfully prevented political activist Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking at a planned event. Armed with bricks and fireworks, they vandalized university property and used police barriers as battering rams. The group successfully breached at least one of the doors, swarmed the venue,

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