The following review is part of RealClear Books and Culture’s symposium on Patrick Deneen’s “Regime Change.” A hundred years from today imagine the United States looks something like this: to accommodate a growing population, the lower chamber expands to some 1000 elected representatives and our electoral process switches from a primary to a caucus-based system. Our nation’s…
Bruce Pardy: The Four Doctrines of the Apocalypse: Critical Theory and Our Compromised Institutions
Commentary The following is an excerpt by Bruce Pardy from “The 1867 Project: Why Canada Should be Cherished—Not Cancelled,” a new book of essays by 20 Canadian critical thinkers edited by Aristotle Foundation president Mark Milke. Modern Western civilization grew out of the Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries. The ascendancy of reason in…
The Circular Nature of Political Extremism: Extremes Fuel Each Other
Commentary Political extremism is often presented as being a linear concept, stretching from the polar ends of the political left to right. But it’s better explained as being circular, where the extremes on both ends neighbor each other and share more in common than they do with the moderates in the proverbial middle. The primary…
Progressives to Americans: Don’t Be Happy
Commentary In recent weeks, there have been news reports about surveys showing record low levels of happiness and high levels of depression and pessimism among Americans. Those reports indicate that progressives’ plan for America is working well. They don’t want us to be happy. Woke progressives remind me of hyperconscious moms constantly hovering over their…
The Left Has Killed Our Great Cities
Commentary Mark down Tuesday, April 4, as the night Chicago died. That’s when we learned that Second City voters narrowly elected Brandon Johnson as their next mayor. This is a city that was flattened during the reign of Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who lost in the first round of voting for Chicago mayor because she didn’t…
House Oversight Committee Holds Hearing to Examine ‘Progressivism’s Impact on an All-Volunteer Military’
The U.S. House Oversight Committee holds a hearing at 2:00 p.m. ET on March 28 on Ensuring Force Readiness: Examining Progressivism’s Impact on an All-Volunteer Military. Brent Sadler, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for National Defense, the Heritage Foundation; Jeremy Hunt, chairman of Veterans on Duty, Inc.; Meaghan Mobbs, senior fellow of the Independent…
LIVE NOW: House Oversight Committee Holds Hearing to Examine ‘Progressivism’s Impact on an All-Volunteer Military’
The U.S. House Oversight Committee holds a hearing at 2:00 p.m. ET on March 28 on Ensuring Force Readiness: Examining Progressivism’s Impact on an All-Volunteer Military. Brent Sadler, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for National Defense, the Heritage Foundation; Jeremy Hunt, chairman of Veterans on Duty, Inc.; Meaghan Mobbs, senior fellow of the Independent…
The Epidemic of Teen Depression: A National Scandal
Commentary Recently, the Wall Street Journal reported a huge increase in the percentage of American high school students suffering from depression. The numbers are grim: “In 2021, 57% of high-school girls reported experiencing persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness in the past year, compared with 36% in 2011. Thirty percent reported they seriously considered attempting…
We’ve Lost Touch With Reality and What Matters, but We Can Work to Reverse It
Commentary Knowledge grows faster than our capacity to learn. Our own knowledge shrinks as a sliver of the total available. We risk becoming ignorant, provincial—ideological islands separated from all who disagree. Look at any recent study. For example, on Dec. 8 the Fraser Institute reported that Canadian patients now wait 27.4 weeks for treatment, the…
[Premiering at 8PM EST] The Link Between Progressivism and Antisemitism | Church & State
In this episode, pastor Lucas Miles unpacks the rising antisemitic attacks from progressive circles and how antisemitism is becoming a tenet of liberalism. He also dives into the “why” behind the biblical command to protect Israel and how we as Christians can help live out that command. The Link Between Progressivism and Antisemitism | Church…
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