Darel E. Paul

In the annals of quixotic American presidential runs, the candidacy of Cornel West—the seventy-year-old academic, social critic, and activist—for the 2024 election is among the more fantastic. Though Americans have shown a willingness to vote for politically inexperienced candidates so . . . . Continue Reading »

The queering of mainstream American culture has no more dramatic exemplar than the drag queen. RuPaul’s Drag Race, which began in 2009 as a competition reality show on the little-watched LGBT-oriented channel Logo, is today a global media and entertainment empire of four spin-off and . . . . Continue Reading »

Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States aspired to be a full-spectrum telling of American history as one long sordid tale of oppression and the resistance to it. Dedicated to a merciless critique of all authority and power, the book extolled and romanticized the victims, . . . . Continue Reading »

In a race everyone expected to be close, Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe lost to multimillionaire political neophyte Glenn Youngkin by over two points. Continue Reading »

America’s abortion regime and the absolutist ideology that animates it is part of a war by the powerful on the weak. This is true not only because it targets unborn children in the womb, the most helpless members of our society. It is also true because the regime is sustained by the rich while it . . . . Continue Reading »

Boris Johnson’s example is already casting a long shadow across the Atlantic. Continue Reading »

Death has a way of focusing the mind on the transcendent. It helped set off America’s First Great Awakening. In April 1734, the little community of Pascommuck, three miles outside Northampton, Massachusetts, suffered what Jonathan Edwards recalled as the “very sudden and awful death of a young . . . . Continue Reading »

Yesterday was just one more day in America's long history of political violence.  Continue Reading »

America’s rich have turned to the Democrats and they aren’t turning back. Continue Reading »

The Republican party will become a multiethnic, multiracial, and working-class party.  Continue Reading »