Are Fascism and Ethno-nationalism Mutually Exclusive?
Here is a question for the political far-right: If the heart of fascism is the belief that the nation arises from the state, but the core belief of ethno-nationalism is…
Seattle is Dead
KOMO news released a fascinating documentary recently, one worth watching in full: A few commenters have said that this is "excellent journalism" -- I suppose, relatively speaking, it's an improvement.…
Linguistic Impediments to Thought
I caught a passing glimpse of Jesse Waters on FOX the other day, and he was criticizing 2020 presidential candidate hopeful John Hickenlooper in the following manner: a pundit asks…
Ilhan Omar’s Serious Question
One of the newest and most diverse(TM) senators from Minnesota has gotten herself in hot water for asking why democrats care tremendously about political and economic interference of the oil,…
A Four-Minute Vision of the Future
If you haven't followed the story of Dankula, this neatly sums up what happened: This is where all the virtue-signaling, the centralized control, the philosophically-ignorant moralizing, and the fetishization of…
“Behave Yourself, Guest”
For rhetorical zingers, Imam Mohamad Tawhidi might deserve some kind of trophy. Amazing what time can do. Little girl from the deserts of Somalia speaking like that to the President…
American Equality and the Destruction of Legacy
While listening to de Tocqueville's classic Democracy in America, I had to stop and re-listen to one section in particular five times over. My impression had been, up until today, that…
On the Wall
About a decade ago, Democrats (including Obama and Clinton) supported the erection of a border wall. Republicans, broadly speaking, were generally uninterested in immigration and highly critical of spending a…
What is the Problem with Liberalism?
Contra my own lofty ideals that led me to delete my Facebook account, I found myself in a debate on Twitter the other day. The original post went as follows:…
What’s the Deal With Russia?
It's not just a point of irony that feelings about Russia have flipped along party lines. Once upon a 20th-century, no one loved Russia more than the American left, who…