Hoping the Alligator Eats Us Last

From National Review, Victor Davis Hanson, The Progressive Race to the Bottom: The new, new Left questions not the operation of American democracy but the very premise of American democracy. When the selection of the Senate leads to something abhorrent like a...

The Higher Truth

From National Review, Victor Davis Hanson, The Progressive Race to the Bottom: The media are not just becoming left-wing (they’ve always has been); they’re no longer even a news-gathering operation. Reporting is synonymous with editorializing. Fake news — whether the...

The Shame of American Journalism

I listened to Cooke’s passioned rant on the recent Mad Dogs and Englishmen podcast with Kevin Williamson on the drive back from Hilton Head this morning. His passion translates will into his words. From Charlie Cooke at National Review, Bad Press:...

The Identity Cult

From National Review, Involuntary Identity Politics by Kevin Williamson: If you ever have spent any time around racial bigots of the old-fashioned peckerwood-trash variety, you have seen this dynamic in action: A black man who commits a crime is not a black man who...

The Demise of Objective Sociology

From The Wall Street Journal, Left-Wing Politics and the Decline of Sociology, by Jackson Toby: Coleman himself believed that racial segregation was morally wrong, but professionally he conducted the educational-inequality survey as objectively as he could—not to...