New York Times columnist Charles Blow fulminated recently that those who fail to cleave to late-model progressivism aim at “the subjugation of all who challenge the white racist patriarchy.” No surprise there. Blow has made a career out of outrage. Yet a prominent analogy in his column, . . . . Continue Reading »
Rather than doubling down on the politics of safety, we need a politics of home that points toward the permanent things. Continue Reading »
Vaccine passport mandates violate the unity of the body of Christ; as such, they are a most egregious denial of the heart of the gospel. Continue Reading »
On a single weekend in June 2021, seven people died of drug overdoses in Rochester, New York. On that Saturday morning, three adults were found dead on a front porch on a quiet, residential street. Inside the house were six orphaned children. Lab tests showed that the lethal agent was heroin laced . . . . Continue Reading »
Nothing stimulates the emergence of a guru like a crisis, especially one to which the correct response is far from clear. People want simple, reassuring answers. They eagerly suspend their critical faculties; their wishes are father to their beliefs. A good guru can transform the proudest skeptic . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter Navarro joins the podcast to discuss his new book, In Trump Time: My Journal of America's Plague Year. Continue Reading »
Obsessive cultural fear of physical suffering and death has blinded and immobilized us, like prisoners staring at the end of the cave. Continue Reading »
Nudge policy, which aims to change citizens’ behavior, came into its own during the pandemic. Continue Reading »
In this historical moment, full of the confusion and danger that attend the collapse of a governing consensus, we need something more than liberalism. Continue Reading »
I don’t know anyone who believes in transhumanism, the techno-fantasy that we can merge our consciousness with computers and thus attain an earthly, silicon immortality. But many of us are functional transhumanists. We act as though, with proper and rigorous application of science and technology, . . . . Continue Reading »
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