Endgame of American Culture
When America’s most sophisticated social scientist warns that America is on its last legs, it is time to start paying attention. Charles Murray has come to the conclusion that Donald Trump is “an...
View ArticleHoratio Alger Matters
The traditional—or at least doctrinaire—response of conservatives and libertarians to the phenomenon of income inequality has been, “So what?” The common attitude of many on the Right is that, in a...
View ArticleA Direct Glance at America
In his neglected mid-century essay “The Direct Glance” Whittaker Chambers sought to understand the smugness of the West and America regarding Soviet Communism. The struggle against it was marked,...
View ArticleLooking at Trump from Outside the Bubble
Everyone seems to be sharing their reflections on the election of Donald Trump as President (for example, here, here, and here), prompting me to weigh in with some of my own. As a contributing editor...
View ArticleWe Want Workers, But We Must Form American Citizens
Gerald Russello, editor of the University Bookman, has put together a great symposium on immigration entitled Citizen, Community, and Welcoming the Stranger with pieces by Yuval Levin, Bruce Frohnen,...
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The Incredible Shrinking Left
Middlebury College students showcase their talents during Charles Murray’s recent attempt to address the College. Liberals mystified by the election of Donald Trump might look to the Middlebury...
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Why Many Universities Make Free Speech a Low Priority
My friend Heather Mac Donald is the latest speaker to be prevented from presenting on a college campus—this time at Claremont McKenna. Heather’s talk was to show how policing saves citizens’ lives,...
View ArticleAre Middle-Aged White Men Dying from Despair?
Economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton have a couple of well-known papers, here and here, identifying a marked increase in death rates for middle-aged white American males without a college degree due...
View ArticleTwitter, Defamation, and New York Times v. Sullivan
One of the new features of our world is social media and Twitter. We now have the phenomenon known as a Twitter Mob, where a large number of people tweet or retweet negative information about a...
View ArticleThe Coming War over Intelligence
When I was a child—aged seven or eight—I was diagnosed with dyslexia, something known in the trade as a “specific learning disorder.” My problems were identified in the usual way for dyslexics—I was...
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