Political Culture

April 10, 2025

America Poured Billions into DEI Initiatives. Who Benefited?

Less than a month after George Floyd’s death, evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience to explain the sentiment behind America’s new reckoning on race. “There’s a cybernetic principle: the purpose of a system is what it does,” he asserted. Continue Reading...

July 26, 2024

The Politics of Dehumanization and Political Violence in the West

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump during a political rally held in Pennsylvania on July 13, which left one dead and several wounded—including the former president—was a grotesque assault on American democracy. Continue Reading...

July 24, 2024

The Keffiyeh, Symbols, and the Power of Folklore

When the IDF began amassing in Gaza in the aftermath of the 10/7 massacre and Americans started taking sides, several social media influencers pointedly asked their followers to name some Israeli and Palestinian inventions without googling. Continue Reading...

June 06, 2024

Richard Dawkins and Mere Cultural Christianity

On April Fool’s Day, I saw headlines that Richard Dawkins, the famed British atheist and evolutionary biologist, had claimed to be a “cultural Christian.” I assumed the headlines were clickbait consistent with the day’s theme. Continue Reading...

January 05, 2023

True Liberty Demands Respectful Disagreement

In his classic The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, Michael Novak offers an observation about an ongoing struggle in a pluralistic society: the absence of a unified vision of the good. Continue Reading...

August 25, 2022

The Trump raid will only harden Americans’ positions

It’s 1973. The Watergate scandal that would ultimately doom the presidency of Richard M. Nixon is roiling that administration. But it’s not the only breach of public trust dogging the Nixon White House. Continue Reading...

March 15, 2022

Put the State of the Union address out of its misery

In the fable of “The Bell and the Cat,” a group of mice discuss how best to protect themselves from a rapacious, predatory cat who has been hunting them down. One mouse suggests they put a bell on the cat so they’ll know when the cat is approaching. Continue Reading...

March 11, 2022

Biden admin official Eric Lander victimized more than just staffers

Allegations of abuse appear to be only the tip of the iceberg in the case of disgraced Biden administration official Eric Lander. According to Politico, the Office of Science and Technology Policy director faces scrutiny for failing to disclose financial interests in a major COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer while publicly advocating for vaccinations in his capacity as a top White House science adviser. Continue Reading...

March 09, 2022

Chronological snobbery and the search for the authentic self

It has become commonplace in America’s elite institutions to attack and delegitimize our forebears for various crimes, some of which are undoubtedly real, while others are more imagined and anachronistic. As for the former, we can cite the fact that many Americans—including some of our greatest heroes—were slave owners and exploiters of indigenous Americans. Continue Reading...

February 21, 2022

George Washington will not be canceled

Cancel—as in noisily toppling George Washington’s statue and striking his name off of buildings? In 2020, one group demanded the removal of his statue from the campus of the University of Washington. Continue Reading...

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