Six crises are serving to hollow out America. China is eyeing a weak America. From cultural Marxism to the infiltration by communist China, sandwiched in between are progressive ideologies that hollow out the foundational institutions of this republic. I explore what the crises are with Stu Cvrk, a retired captain of the Navy and China expert….

Commentary Some years ago, I was invited to give a university lecture on the importance of free speech. I gave a competent presentation but it lacked passion, not because I didn’t believe but because I didn’t quite see the threat or the pressing need even to address the topic. Free speech had always been in…

Commentary There are many moments in American history that have been significant because they have informed the principles of America’s traditional ideology of liberalism, but none as important as the present period since America’s founding. The United States is at a “1776 moment” of ideological transformation. The American Revolution of 1776 was a change of…

Commentary U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has expressed concern over the loss of trust and confidence of the American people in the military. While the causes are multiple, a major one is the ideological upheaval between the ideologies of liberalism and progressivism. A major consequence of this is the departure of many officers from…

Liberals and conservatives will need to be allies in an effort to fight a growing Marxist cultural revolution taking place across America, according to Israeli philosopher and Chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation, Yoram Hazony. Speaking to Jan Jekielek on The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders” program, Hazony explained that in the past year, there has been a growing Marxist cultural…

Commentary As I have noted repeatedly, liberalism and leftism have virtually nothing in common. In fact, leftism is the enemy of liberalism—as a handful of liberals such as former New York Times writer Bari Weiss, former Young Turk Dave Rubin and others have come to recognize. The Left has never believed in free speech and…

Commentary “What constitutes a family?” That’s one of the “Sample Guiding Questions” for Kindergarten to 2nd-grade students in the project called the Educating for American Democracy Roadmap (pdf). The Roadmap is a well-funded, amply sponsored initiative to boost civics learning in primary and secondary education, which everyone agrees is in poor condition. The goal is…

Commentary Back in 1966, liberalism never seemed better. The Civil Rights Movement had just concluded with the triumphant passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. Great Society programs such as the War on Poverty promised to curb other forms of inequity, too, with social servants showing the wisdom of the state in fixing…

Commentary Who could have imagined that liberalism would be so fragile, so easily and righteously abandoned? I don’t mean the collapse of that cornerstone of American liberalism, the First Amendment, though the hounding of religion out of the public square, the rising mistrust of free speech, the decay of the press into a partisan club,…

Commentary Given the irked and fearful state of the liberal temper at the present time, many people might find it hard to believe that liberalism used to be fun. During the four years of President Donald Trump, liberals were miserable, sinking ever further into resentment and incredulity, a sense of history and America robbing them…