"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
The political Left in general, and American progressive Democrats in particular, have a different sense of reality from most people. Many Democrats might actually believe the falsehoods they utter. For … Read More
The images above of a confused President Biden are emblematic of today’s progressive Democratic Party. It is a very confused party. Other authors have noted that its primary ideology, Critical … Read More
The institutions and traditions of Western civilization are almost entirely the products of the Age of Enlightenment (AKA the Enlightenment, the Modern Age, or the Age of Reason). For the … Read More
The portrait above is of the famous eighteenth-century social contract philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His romanticism seems to motivate much of the secular “woke” religion of present day progressive Democrats. Thinking … Read More
The elites of the United States have gone rogue. As with the elites of the rest of the West, America’s elites seek to impose a kind of neo-feudalism on its … Read More
The plot above shows a deeply divided nation. What it displays are the red states dominated by Republicans, the blue states led by Democrats, and the purple states ruled by … Read More
Material added on February 23, 2023 In 1633, the Italian astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei was brought to trial for heresy before the Holy Office of the Inquisition. Galileo’s crime … Read More
Recently, I wrote about how progressive Democrats were pervasively gaslighting the American people. By gaslighting, I mean the manipulation of people by psychological means into questioning their own sanity. Since … Read More
After almost two years of controlling the executive branch and both houses of Congress, the Democrats’ have broken American society. Through their war on fossil fuels, their culture wars, their … Read More
Definition of Gaslighting: The manipulation of someone by psychological means into questioning their own sanity. For an extended period of time, the Democratic Party has been gaslighting the American people. … Read More
We need to look around our world periodically to see what works for societies, and what does not. I started to do this, using statistics from a variety of sources, … Read More
Six years ago, I wrote a post asserting that progressives are NOT liberals. Before that, I wrote an essay entitled Progressives’ Disrespect for the U.S. Constitution. Today, with the executive … Read More
Populism is rampant throughout the countries of the West. By populism, I mean any political movement where many people believe the country’s elites have stacked the deck against them. Populists … Read More
Recently, the Biden administration has announced the formation of a “Disinformation Governance Board” under the Department of Homeland Security. According to testimony by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to Congress, the … Read More
I have not updated the leading and coincident economic indicators I have been following for approximately seven months. They have now been updated up to October-November 2021. Having waited that … Read More
What has puzzled me beyond measure over the years is how Western Leftists can continue to believe their core convictions. There is a plethora of empirical data spanning many years … Read More
While watching the confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, I was struck by how much more these hearings were than just about her nomination to the Supreme Court. In … Read More
American progressives’ lies have systematically misrepresented what is transpiring in the United States for a very long time. What they shrilly claim is so different from actual reality, they must … Read More
I was reading an essay in Foreign Affairs magazine recently entitled The Broken Bargain. It was about the multifarious populist and nationalist revolts among Western electorates over the last few … Read More
I have just read a thought-provoking article on The American Interest website entitled National Conservatism: A Guide for the Perplexed. The post, written by Aaron Sibarium, notes how political and ideological … Read More
American progressives have a real problem. Somehow, they must figure out how to finance the huge new social programs they would like to impose on us. Lately, a number of … Read More
It has only been a few months since the end of the 2018 U.S. campaign season. Nevertheless, we can already see what we will fight over in the 2020 campaign. … Read More
Differing views about taxes generate much of the anger between the American Left and Right. Progressives, insisting government should be the major tool for solving social and economic problems, look … Read More
In the coming 2018 midterm elections, we will have an opportunity to see if the same old dysfunctional political patterns observed in recent decades continue. With a cold civil war … Read More
Every now and then, I read something reminding me a great many believe our political dysfunction is rooted in simple partisanship. I have just done that again, reading The Serve … Read More
The vicious ideological warfare between the Left and the Right is caused by one salient question: Just how useful is government in solving social and economic problems? A subsidiary issue … Read More
Germans stand on top of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate days before it was torn down in 1989. Wikimedia Commons / Unknown photographer The photograph above is a … Read More
Using a compass and a map to find one’s desired direction. Wikimedia Commons / Audrius Meskauskas Echo chambers for different ideological orientations abound throughout the modern world. One can see them … Read More
Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), a romantic representation of the French Revolution of 1830. Wikimedia Commons / Louvre Museum All around us across the entire planet, human … Read More
A 1795 view of political debates that could pass for today! Wikimedia Commons / Issac Cruikshank (1756-1811) This essay is a cri de coeur from yours truly about what I see … Read More
