Tag: ideology

America in Crisis

News analysis The good news is that price hikes have pulled back a bit even if real-time aggregates are still running up 10 percent year-over-year. That’s better than it was two months ago, with food, transportation, and household durables rising at slightly slower rates. Utilities and education are up, however, so the bad news is…


Leon Fontaine: When Public Policy Hurts

Commentary In a world of increasing complexities, it’s unsurprising but very disappointing that governments are confounding policy issues—and the convoluted solutions they create will inevitably generate more harm than good. Unfortunately, this is merely political theatre: The problems themselves don’t get solved at all. Do elected officials realize what they are voting on? Case in…


How Children Become Progressives

Commentary How are progressives made? By cooking them in a public school six hours a day, five days a week where they are seemingly indoctrinated with an ideology that contradicts the values and beliefs of many of their parents. It began as a trickle, but now is approaching a flood as activist groups—notably LGBTQ organizations—have…


No Mob Rule, No Criminal Domination

Commentary Two patterns of destroying civilization are coming together to form a river of violence and intimidation that can destroy the Constitution, the rule of law, and the very basic elements of our free society. On the political front, there is a self-righteous fanaticism dominating the secular-religious intensity of the Left. This has convinced many…


The Cathedral of the Left

Commentary I was taken recently by Ben Domenech’s recent column in the Transom (a newsletter I read for its insightful comments). Domenech describes the driving force trying to reshape and remake America into a subservient Big Government Socialist system which imposes woke values whether you want them or not as “the Cathedral.” Consider his analysis…


Why Ideology Is the Ancient Enemy of Civilization

Commentary What ultimately destroyed the evil empires of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were bankrupt dogmas. Crackpot ideology destroyed free expression. It ruined meritocracy and ensured unequal application of the laws—and so paved the way for far worse. The Nazi idea of a superior Aryan race adjudicated everything from physics to tank design. Soviet commissars…


CCP Moves to Indoctrinate School Children With ‘Xi Jinping Thought’

China’s top leader Xi Jinping wants to instill loyalty in all Chinese citizens—beginning from elementary school students. As students across the country return from summer break in September, they will find one more course on their curriculum: “Xi Jinping Thought.” The new drive for ideological control will run from grade school through college. The mandatory…


The Dark Origins of Communism Ep. 1: War on the Human Spirit

Everyone desires a good life, but this desire has been exploited by movements promising a utopian idea of “heaven on earth.” But what’s really behind these movements? We start this series by exploring the basic ideas that formed the ideology of communism. Follow EpochTV on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EpochTVus Twitter: https://twitter.com/EpochTVus


War on the Human Spirit | The Dark Origins of Communism

Everyone desires a good life, but this desire has been exploited by movements promising a utopian idea of “heaven on earth.” But what’s really behind these movements? We start this series by exploring the basic ideas that formed the ideology of communism. Follow EpochTV on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EpochTVus Twitter: https://twitter.com/EpochTVus


[Coming Soon] Episode 1: War on the Human Spirit

Everyone desires a good life, but this desire has been exploited by movements promising a utopian idea of “heaven on earth.” But what’s really behind these movements? We start this series by exploring the basic ideas that formed the ideology of communism. Follow EpochTV on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EpochTVus Twitter: https://twitter.com/EpochTVus