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…
Free Speech Needs Nationalism
I was reading a book written by my great-great grandfather a few days ago. It described (among other things) the account of his journey from Scotland to India in the…
Video of the Day: KillDozer
The immortal Dankula, tamer of pugs, has given us probably the most comprehensive and entertaining presentation yet of the story of Marvin Heemeyer -- denizen of Colorado, victim of corporate…
A “Nation of Immigrants”
I think it may be worth a few minutes (but no more) to address the argument against more restrictive immigration which says that "X is a nation of immigrants." I…
The Benevolence of the Censor
I think Tim Pool is beginning to get past the initial "hate speech is nonsense" reaction, and discovering the moral virtue of hatred. He is not the only one on the…
Raising the Temperature
I don't think it's possible to exaggerate the importance of this story: FBI agents raided the home of a recognized Department of Justice whistleblower who privately delivered documents pertaining to…
The Responsibility Paradox
Possibly the most annoying thing that Jordan Peterson has argued (echoed in even more absurd terms by many of his followers, on other people's platforms) is the idea that we…