The surest sign a society has lost its mind is when it starts calling basic self-respect oppression. That’s when you know the adults have left the Continue Reading
The Hot Take Laundromat
Nothing in modern public life is more impressive than the speed with which allegedly serious people can convert ignorance into certainty. Give them a Continue Reading
The Useless Keep Getting Promoted
Author’s Note: This piece is the private-sector sequel to “The Battlefield Is Not a Diversity Workshop,” because apparently the Pentagon didn’t corner Continue Reading
The Sanctimony Industrial Complex
We’ve built a society where moral status is rented by the hour, and the monthly fee is public performance. That’s the thesis. Not that people have Continue Reading
The Virtue Bunker
There is no sermon more passionate than the one delivered from a safe zip code. That is the central racket of modern public life. The people most Continue Reading
The People Selling the Smoke Alarm Started the Fire
We don’t live in an information age anymore. We live in a panic carnival run by ring lights, consultants, and professionally moisturized frauds who Continue Reading
Protected, Powerful, and Still Performing Persecution
There’s a fascinating little magic trick modern Western culture performs every day. A woman can live in the most legally protected, socially Continue Reading
America’s Four-Year Experiment in Presidential Puppetry
In 1968, Star Trek aired one of its nastier little morality plays, an episode called “Patterns of Force,” in which a Federation historian tries to Continue Reading
When the Virtue Machine Learned to Hate in Public
The most impressive trick of modern American moral culture is that it can take an ancient prejudice, hose it down with graduate-school vocabulary, Continue Reading
The Watchdog Put the Wolves on Payroll
There are scandals that shock the conscience, and then there are scandals that walk in wearing a nametag that says, “Obviously.” The Southern Poverty Continue Reading
The Bribe Faucet Is Drowning the Republic
America doesn’t have a polarization problem. America has a cash-register problem. The screaming, the tribal jerseys, the cable-news arsonists, the Continue Reading
The Revolution Would Start Right After Brunch
If Americans ever truly understood how money works in this country, there wouldn’t be a revolution by morning because this is still America and half Continue Reading