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Doctor WHO and Big Brother 0
- International
- October 1, 2020
Six months ago, on St. Patrick’s Day to be precise, The Imaginative Conservative published my essay, “Globalism Goes Viral.” In the concluding paragraph of that essay I predicted that the advocates of globalism would demand even more global control over our lives as a direct consequence of the global problems caused by globalism itself: As
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Four Questions James Comey Actually Answered in Senate Hearing 0
- Politics
- October 1, 2020
Former FBI Director James Comey took questions from a Senate committee for almost four hours Wednesday, but had the same answers for many of them. Comey, who President Donald Trump fired in May 2017, fielded questions remotely by video link primarily about the FBI’s Russia-Trump investigation, code-named “Crossfire Hurricane,” before the Justice Department named a
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People and… Other People, Please Fasten Your Seatbelts 0
- Culture
- October 1, 2020
“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard Japan Airlines Flight 062 bound for Los Angeles…” Those first three words will no longer be uttered, for Japan Airlines just announced it would retire this gendered language when communicating in English. “We aspire to be a company where we can create a positive atmosphere and treat everyone, including our
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So This Is What It Has Come To 0
- Politics
- October 1, 2020
For years after my wife died and I’d moved into an Asheville apartment with my youngest son, I’d rent a house for a week every summer at the North Carolina shore. My children, their spouses, and a growing platoon of grandchildren all came for a special time, a gathering of the clan. Although circumstances have
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Ginsburg Rejected Court-Packing, And So Should We 0
- History
- September 30, 2020
The presidential election that will take place in November already was promising to be one of the most unorthodox, nasty and hyperpartisan in our nation’s history. Now with the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the vitriol is growing to unprecedented levels. How do we know that? Because, right in time for Halloween, the extreme
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Robert Nisbet’s Ten Conditions of Revolution 0
- History
- September 30, 2020
One of the twentieth century’s most astute observers of society, sociologist, historian, and man of letters, Professor Robert Nisbet (1913-1996), offered ten conditions of revolution. By this, he meant not what we want to label revolution (which is cheap and easy to do), but what really constitutes revolution. He wrote these after years of observing,
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