A thought occurred to me as I was traveling through the North Carolina Piedmont last week. The notion didn’t have to do with my location but was instead prompted by the lecture I was listening to on the way. It was one of an excellent series on the world’s political hot spots issued by a...
Americans have always had a healthy distrust of authorities and dogmas, especially when we’re told they can’t be questioned. It’s in our DNA to push back on Old World power structures, like established churches and the divine right of kings. But it seems like our rebellious nature is weakening as a new royal priesthood —...
Oktoberfest is back but inflation hits brewers, cost of beer As if the news can’t get any more depressing these days. Don Lemon Suggested Royal Family Should Pay Reparations. What Happened Next Is the Stuff of Legends. I’m far from a royalist but this is a massive takedown of trendy talking point circulating on the...
AOC predicts she won’t be president — because Americans ‘hate women’ Being a victim must be exhausting but it makes for some funny statements. For the record, I’m a big fan of women. Research assistant for California Teachers Association was paid to ‘dig for dirt’ on parents’ groups who opposed COVID shutdowns across the state,...
America has always been more religiously devout than other Western democracies. But now, like them, it has begun to secularize rapidly. And, as religion has declined, political ideology has intensified, society has fragmented, and cultural common ground has disintegrated. As a result, politics is increasingly divisive and existentially fraught. For over three decades, debates about...
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Reliably Republican voters disagree among themselves on a variety of issues, as do voters in the Democratic coalition.
Ideas are powerful. They change minds and motivate behavior. They are also potentially dangerous.
Recent electoral results are likely to lead to long-term changes for both Republicans and Democrats.
If you see the two major political parties as more polarized and more ideological than they used to be, congratulations! Your Spidey sense is working.
Goldberg, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, has compiled an enlightening and often mischievous collection of examples showing how the American Left has grown sloppy over time, leaning on trite phrases rather than logic to defend its views.
