Tag: Opinion

The Transgressive Road to Slavery

Commentary Picture today’s quintessential TikTok star with her (or is it “zer”?) unheard-of gender identity, unpronounceable pronouns, and glorified mental illness. Picture those woke college professors who rail against “anti-messiness,” “pro-niceness,” and organized pantries. Listen to modern relationship “experts” who basically just say ignore all traditional mores, be as promiscuous as possible, never get married, and never…


Eco-Anxiety Is a Reflection of a Sick Society

Commentary Unless you happen to live under a rock on a distant planet, you’re no doubt familiar with climate doomism, the idea that our planet is past the point of saving. In the UK, a staggering two-thirds of people are worried sick about the environment. In the United States, doomism, a potent mix of fear-based…


Repeal the Quarantine Power

Commentary It was March 12, 2020, and I was sitting on a moving Amtrak train out of Manhattan and headed to the Hudson train stop. From what I experienced in New York City that day—people drinking themselves silly at noon and otherwise scurrying through the streets to get out because of the bad germ on…


De-dollarization?

Commentary The potential U.S. debt ceiling and U.S. dollar status problems reignite the discussion of de-dollarization. The status of U.S. dollar will no doubt be firmly anchored in the financial market, which has already been discussed here previously. But the U.S. dollar share of goods trade is claimed to be jeopardized by the Chinese mouthpieces…


AI Is for Artificial Intelligence, Not Artistic Imitation

Commentary Art is the highest form of human expression; that is, art is most effective in evoking and exploring expressions intrinsic to the human experience. There can be no room for what you might call fake art, art that is, at its heart, inauthentic. I examined authenticity in my Honour’s thesis, and submit that authentic…


Is Liberal Democracy Possible Without God?

Commentary As Western society becomes increasingly secularized, can our liberal democracy survive without God? John Adams wrote to the Massachusetts Militia in 1798 that “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” The claim made by Adams’ makes eminent sense if we…


Newsom Sets Up Soviet-Style Hate Snitch Line

Commentary We’ve seen this before. California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently established a new hotline, CAvsHate.org, which “provides a safe, anonymous reporting option for victims and witnesses of hate acts,” according to his office’s announcement. “Here in California, we are sending an unequivocal message that hate will not be tolerated,” said the governor himself.  “We stand firm…


‘The Hustler,’ the 1913 US Open, and the Debt Ceiling Negotiations

Commentary There are powerful parallels in the 1961 movie “The Hustler,” the 1913 US Open, and the current debt ceiling negotiation. Let me explain. In each case, there is a real question of which competitor is going to succumb to the pressure and break. In “The Hustler,” Paul Newman plays Eddie Felton, a young pool…


Court Backlog Clog: It’s the Story of Immigration Now and It’s Growing Inexorably Worse

News analysis New migrants pouring into the United States after the Biden administration let a COVID-19 restriction called Title 42 expire last week will not break the nation’s stretched court system. The system is already shattered, according to several former judges, immigration experts, and Department of Homeland Security data. The average wait time for a…


Ex-DOJ Official and Wife Had Bigger Roles in Dossier Than Known: Durham Report

News analysis While it’s bad enough the debunked dossier the FBI used to spy on the Trump campaign was paid for by the Clinton campaign and authored by a foreign FBI informant and his carousing researcher, the newly released report of Special Counsel John Durham strongly suggests a top Justice Department official and his wife…