Tag: culture war

PART 2: Maajid Nawaz: How Our Elites Destroyed Public Trust and Created a Recruiting Ground for Extremism

In this two-part episode with Maajid Nawaz, a counter-extremism activist and former Islamist revolutionary, he breaks down the parallels he sees between the methods he used to radicalize young Muslims and the tactics he saw deployed to urge societies to adopt far-reaching COVID mandates. You can watch part one here. In part two, we discuss…


Maajid Nawaz: The Levers of Ideological Warfare—From Islamist Extremism to Covidian Dogma | PART 1

“I was anti-democracy. I was an Islamist revolutionary that wanted to establish a caliphate. And I was imprisoned in Egypt and sentenced to five years … because I was attempting to overthrow the Egyptian government.” A former Islamist revolutionary, Maajid Nawaz would later become a leading anti-extremism activist, founding the counter-extremism think tank Quilliam. In…


Antonio Gramsci: Socialism Will Triumph by Capturing the Culture via Infiltration of Schools, Universities, Churches and the Media | Truth Over News

Our nation has been pushed inexorably toward the left for decades. Has this been caused by a simple evolutionary process, a normal outcome of a wealthy and successful society falling into middle age? Or does it have some deeper cause, a more active agent of change? This question seems to be of particular relevance today…


Antonio Gramsci: Origins of the Culture Wars, Political Correctness, Critical Race Theory, Cancel Culture, Corporate Media Propaganda, Big Tech Censorship | Truth Over News

Our nation has been pushed inexorably toward the left for decades. Has this been caused by a simple evolutionary process, a normal outcome of a wealthy and successful society falling into middle age? Or does it have some deeper cause, a more active agent of change? This question seems to be of particular relevance today…


Rittenhouse and American Mobs

The Kyle Rittenhouse trial acts as a proxy for the greater culture war, where impassioned mobs, both the in-person variety and in the digital media sphere, sway public opinion and even juries trying to determine a defendant’s fate. I examine the qualities and dangers of these mobs in important cases that harken back to our…


Critical Race Theory Is on the March—and a Winning Issue for Conservatives

Commentary Critical race theory (CRT) is now center stage in the culture war between left and right, emerging in recent months as one of the nation’s most contentious issues. On the surface, it may seem progressives are winning as CRT infects schools across America, but the fight against this racist indoctrination is really a winning…


Will Republicans Step Up to Challenge on Values?

Commentary For sure, Democrats rejoiced as they watched Republicans painfully twist in the wind at the beginning of LGBTQ Pride Month, trying to figure out how to position their party on this issue. Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel got flak from the right and from the left, as she essentially waved a white flag,…


The Culture War Comes to Your School

Commentary You may have noticed the ongoing fight between Alberta’s United Conservative Party and the education establishment—the teachers’ union and university faculties of education—over the government’s new humanities curriculum. And you may have noticed that the “expert” commentary in the mainstream media is uniformly damning the government. “They want to set back our educational system…


Book Review: ‘The Woke Supremacy’

Commentary What strange days these are here in the United States. Just a few years ago, most Americans had never heard the words “democratic socialist” said together. They had never heard of “Black Lives Matter” or “Antifa.” And now? After watching for a year as violent leftist mobs pulled down statues, destroyed landmarks, looted businesses,…