"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Cultural issues are concerned with our relations and duties to each other. They include questions on ethics, morality, and mores.
The institutions and traditions of Western civilization are almost entirely the products of the Age of Enlightenment (AKA the Enlightenment, the Modern Age, or the Age of Reason). For the … Read More
Over and over again, the U.S. federal government, dominated by progressive Democrats, has been creating disasters for the American people. Moreover, in causing those calamities, progressives have been destroying the … Read More
The portrait above is of the famous eighteenth-century social contract philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His romanticism seems to motivate much of the secular “woke” religion of present day progressive Democrats. Thinking … Read More
The elites of the United States have gone rogue. As with the elites of the rest of the West, America’s elites seek to impose a kind of neo-feudalism on its … Read More
The plot above shows a deeply divided nation. What it displays are the red states dominated by Republicans, the blue states led by Democrats, and the purple states ruled by … Read More
Recently, I wrote about how progressive Democrats were pervasively gaslighting the American people. By gaslighting, I mean the manipulation of people by psychological means into questioning their own sanity. Since … Read More
After almost two years of controlling the executive branch and both houses of Congress, the Democrats’ have broken American society. Through their war on fossil fuels, their culture wars, their … Read More
Definition of Gaslighting: The manipulation of someone by psychological means into questioning their own sanity. For an extended period of time, the Democratic Party has been gaslighting the American people. … Read More
Recently, a friend of mine asked me how I felt about our descent into the hell of our ideological warfare. What animated her interest was the kinds of emotions generated … Read More
It seems as if the “woke” in the U.S. are taking over the Democratic Party. In the process, they want to fundamentally transform American cultural, social, economic, and political institutions. … Read More
NOTE: This post was updated on June 10, 2021 with additional material. During the entire Trump administration, American progressives accelerated their struggle against Trump into a campaign against American cultural … Read More
While watching the confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, I was struck by how much more these hearings were than just about her nomination to the Supreme Court. In … Read More
American progressives’ lies have systematically misrepresented what is transpiring in the United States for a very long time. What they shrilly claim is so different from actual reality, they must … Read More
In 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated Robert Bork to the Supreme Court of the United States. What followed in Bork’s Senate nomination hearings was the beginning of a Democratic method for … Read More
In the short-term, no one can really expect Americans to become united as a nation again. That is because the differences between us are not merely the shallow ones produced by … Read More
The picture above epitomizes what the American Left would like to do to American society. Their antipathy to President Trump and the Republicans was generated by their overweening desire to … Read More
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty … Read More
Recently, Congress passed and the President signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, which also is called the CARES Act. It was designed to rescue the financial lives … Read More
A growing divide has been building for at least a decade between Western dirigiste elites and the peoples they purport to rule. This breach has become large enough to inspire … Read More
I have just read a thought-provoking article on The American Interest website entitled National Conservatism: A Guide for the Perplexed. The post, written by Aaron Sibarium, notes how political and ideological … Read More
The bogeyman is a mythical being used by parents since time immemorial to frighten unruly children into good behavior. “Be good, ” the parents would say, “or the bogeyman will … Read More
What should the social contract between the rulers and the ruled be? Responses to this single question are the sources of our growing political conflict. As the image above suggests, … Read More
Every now and then, I read something reminding me a great many believe our political dysfunction is rooted in simple partisanship. I have just done that again, reading The Serve … Read More
On the Left, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, advocates for collective responsibilities. Wikimedia Commons / Friedrich Karl Wunder and George Lester On the Right, John Locke, champion for individual rights. … Read More
Faces of American Populism: On the Left, Bernie Sanders Wikimedia Commons / Gage Skidmore On the Right, Donald Trump Wikimedia Commons / Gage Skidmore Western elites … Read More
The Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773. American colonists dressed as native Americans are making clear to the English their contempt for British dirigiste policies. Wikimedia Commons / Nathaniel … Read More
Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), a romantic representation of the French Revolution of 1830. Wikimedia Commons / Louvre Museum All around us across the entire planet, human … Read More
Freeimages.com / Julia Borysewicz Recently a friend asked me, “What do you think life and economics will be like in 100 and 200 years, if no catastrophe derails the progress of … Read More
The labyrinth connections of persuasion (c) Can Stock Photo / focalpoint The more things change, the more they stay the same. — Translation of a French epigram by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr: “Plus … Read More
A 1795 view of political debates that could pass for today! Wikimedia Commons / Issac Cruikshank (1756-1811) This essay is a cri de coeur from yours truly about what I see … Read More
