From Lexington to Exit Signs: How the Northeast’s Gun Laws Are Driving Firearms Manufacturers Away For generations, New England was synonymous with Continue Reading
Contemporary Affairs
They Bought Both Sides
There was a time when Americans were told the country was split between left and right, as if citizenship were a booth at a county fair and democracy Continue Reading
Your Opinions Have a Landlord
The old fairy tale says we live in a marketplace of ideas. How adorable. That phrase always arrives dressed like a civics teacher and leaves smelling Continue Reading
Can a Free Society Survive Its Own Tolerance?
America was founded on a radical idea. Not democracy. Not capitalism. Not even individual liberty. The truly radical idea was that people should Continue Reading
When Whiteness Becomes Probable Cause
There’s a point where a society stops pursuing justice and starts playing racial bingo with a body still warm on the floor. We have reached that Continue Reading
Rebellion is Born when Rulers Forget They Are Meant to Serve
History is full of uprisings, revolutions, and rebellions—and almost all of them share the same root cause: rulers who forget their duty is to serve Continue Reading
The Cult of Performed Dysfunction
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 Gun Comes Last
I have responded to enough crime scenes in my career to know what violence looks like up close. I have seen what a bullet does to a human body. I have Continue Reading
When the Machine Starts Deciding
By Carlin McKeahow By 2036, most people will not experience artificial intelligence as a chatbot. They will experience it as the thing that handled Continue Reading
Tang Ping Is Older Than the CCP
By Bruce D. Kowal Charles Faint's recent analysis of tang ping in these pages is intelligent, well-observed, and correctly identifies the Continue Reading
The First Amendment Does Not Protect Threats
Every election cycle, every social media controversy, and every politically charged news story seems to generate the same debate: “Isn't 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