Anti-Bigotry and Liberal Power

by R. R. Reno

The crusade against intolerance creates victims to ensure its own survival. Continue Reading »

2 Jul 2019

The Unaccountable Silences of Bret Baier

by Hadley Arkes

Media figures have skirted around the ugly realities of abortion legislation. Continue Reading »

20 Jun 2019

The Future of News

by Les Sillars

For about a century, American journalism had a paradigm that positioned the industry as essential to liberal democracy: journalistic objectivity. It promised objective, reliable coverage of events that mattered to citizens regardless of partisan beliefs, and it was supported by a lucrative, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2019

Sentimental Frenzy

by Matthew Schmitz

On the basis of a sixty-second clip, thousands of prominent Americans rushed to denounce the students of Covington Catholic High School. The students’ alleged crime was mobbing an American Indian activist named Nathan Phillips while wearing “Make America Great Again” caps. Respectable people . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2019

The Church’s Bigger Agenda

by Nathaniel Peters

Standing up for the mob’s victims should be on the Church’s agenda for the justice of all people, especially when its victims are her own children. Continue Reading »

30 Jan 2019

The Covington Catholic Debacle

by Mark Bauerlein

Featuring Robby Soave on media dishonesty and the Covington Catholic incident.  Continue Reading »

24 Jan 2019

Covington Catholic’s Failed Leaders

by R. R. Reno

Many Catholic and conservative leaders joined in on cyber-lynching of their own young followers after the Covington Catholic incident at the March for Life. Continue Reading »

22 Jan 2019

Shame Storm

by Helen Andrews

After a lifetime of impeccably correct opinions, Ian Buruma found himself on the wrong side of the liberal consensus in September 2018, when he was forced to resign as editor of the New York Review of Books for having commissioned a piece called “Reflections from a Hashtag” from the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2019

Francis and the Journalists

by John Waters

When you read the pope’s response in light of what has happened—or not happened—in the several days since, it acquires an ominous tenor. Continue Reading »

31 Aug 2018

Decline and Fall of the BBC

by Peter Hitchens

The British Broadcasting Corporation is not what it officially claims that it is. Continue Reading »

7 May 2018