Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
Last month, Communist China launched its largest ever crackdown on Christians. The raids across Beijing, Shanghai and eight other cities mark the beginning of an escalation as the paranoid Xi regime sets out to suppress the growing number of Chinese Christians. While the Communist regime claims that the official number of Christians in China is … Read more
During the Cold War, Soviet communists reportedly referred to American liberals as “useful idiots.” Although the origin of the quote has been challenged (and attributed to both Lenin and Stalin), it captured many of the adherents of communism after World War II. From higher education to Hollywood, dilettantes on the left embraced Marxism with little … Read more
This was a Communist terrorism attack in support of Muslim terrorists. Elias Rodriguez, reportedly a member of the Communist front Party for Socialism and Liberation, opened fire outside the Israeli Embassy in D.C., killing Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, a pair of staffers who were about to be engaged. The Communist terrorist shouted, “Free Palestine,” … Read more
Dangerous policies, incoherent ideas, and amoral politics. The Democrats have responded to their repudiation by the voters by tripling down on the toxic ideas and preposterous policies that make sense only when one remembers that, as DOGE has exposed, in the end, they are patent grifts, opportunities for enriching themselves and their plutocratic, corporate globalist … Read more
One year people around my age woke up and discovered that the “holiday season” of Christmas and New Year’s Dah became a trio, with the addition of something called Kwanzaa. Oh sure, there were rumblings of a new holiday. This new “holiday” raises the question, why is a day invented in 1966 by a rapist … Read more
Cold-blood Americana shouldn’t surprise us. People are sometimes surprised by how often doctors turn up in the ranks of terrorists, tyrants, and similar malefactors. The Nazis had their Josef Mengele, the Soviets their legions of psychiatrists overseeing their medical gulag. In our own times, Ayman al-Zawahiri—second general emir of al-Qaeda and a physician—was typical of … Read more
Bureaucratic bloat aside, has the intellectual well of higher education been poisoned? Colleges are the closest thing we have to progressive societies fully realized, and they increasingly exist as ends unto themselves. The decline of conservative representation among the professoriate is a decades-long phenomenon and has reached its terminus. Like medieval monasteries, progressive universities take … Read more
Many college students, and all of the anti-Israel protesters, erroneously believe that a country called “Palestine” was populated by a people called “Palestinians” until World War II, after which Jews who escaped the Nazi Holocaust began migrating there as “settlers” and took the land from Arabs. Today, so the narrative goes, they are colonial occupiers … Read more
Last week, Pope Francis spent 40 minutes – a long time for a busy man – with representatives of DIALOP, a group that engages in Christian-Marxist “dialogue.” It was formed in 2014 after he met with some of the founders. It will probably only be remembered as a mere blip compared with much more momentous … Read more
Just after Christmas 50 years ago, the original Russian edition of the first two parts of The Gulag Archipelago was published, followed by French and English translations the next year. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dedicated his book “to all those who did not live to tell it.” This was followed by second and third volumes in 1975 … Read more
“We cannot save the world by playing by the rules,” thunders Greta Thunberg, voicing the sentiment of practically every violent radical, terrorist, and concentration-camp builder throughout modern history. Here is a 21st-century question: Is the 20-year-old environmental campaigner old enough to know better? There was a time, not that long ago, when this would have … Read more
Local libraries have become a fierce battleground in the cultural revolution sweeping America. “Drag Queen Story Hour” and the promotion of pornographic materials in children and teens sections have prompted parents around the nation to push back—and some families to withdraw entirely. In fact, last week saw an entire state withdraw. The Montana State Library … Read more
Long before the left invented “pride month,” the Catholic Church dedicated June to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a tradition originating from the 17th-century visions of Christ received by French nun St. Margaret Mary Alacoque. Enter Ross McKnight, a Louisiana Catholic father of five and owner of Backwater Foie Gras, whose business is now under … Read more
Angela Davis was a dedicated fangirl of Soviet dictator Leonid Brezhnev and cult leader Jim Jones. So why is she presented to children as a hero? Every day, my son, who is in seventh grade, sees a quotation from Angela Davis painted on his school’s wall: “Radical simply means grasping things at the root.” (The … Read more
Identity politics is best understood as a moral caste system. Buying into variants such as critical race theory means accepting that your actions matter less than your race, gender or sexuality. The promised liberation of identity politics imposes the collectivist understanding that nothing you do truly matters outside the constraints of your caste. Who you … Read more
The upcoming ruling by the US Supreme Court on racial preferences is certain to ignite yet another divisive debate about whether or not a person’s ethnic heritage should determine their treatment by the state and major institutions. After steady progress towards “race-blind” governance, the notion of equal treatment is disappearing in a frenzy of ethnic … Read more
I once saw a social media post making fun of people opposed to Critical Race Theory (CRT). It read, “I don’t know what Critical Race Theory is, but I’m against it.” The truth of the matter is that CRT is difficult to sum up, and so it has been hard for most people to understand … Read more
But recently I learned that Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger now says Wikipedia’s political pages have turned into leftist “propaganda.” That’s upsetting. Leftists took over the editing? Sadly, yes. I checked it out. All editing is done by volunteers. Wales hoped there would be enough diverse political persuasions that biases would be countered by others. But … Read more
Nearly 54 years since civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, his words still resound across our nation and his legacy has influenced millions. If alive today, how would King encourage us to tackle the renewed racial tensions America faces? And what would he have to say about divisive ideologies such as critical race … Read more
A common response to my “put-your-money-where-your-mouth-is” challenge is that the persons to whom I direct it are almost always intellectuals rather than experienced business people. Being an intellectual myself – and aware of my accompanying incompetence in practical affairs – I sympathize with fellow intellectuals who realize that they personally have no talent to launch … Read more
Critical race theory has been slithering like the snakes on the scalp of Medusa through our education system for decades. . . . In 1983, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, in his acceptance speech for the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, observed, “More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing … Read more
A special court has been convened in Colombia to try eight leaders of the Marxist-Leninist terrorist outfit known as FARC — Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia — on war crimes and crimes against humanity charges. Perhaps justice will be done upon these eight — will it ever be done for their enablers in the United … Read more
I never quite know who is most stuck in the past: The liberals who insist that conservatives and Republicans are all shills for rich folks and corporations, or the conservatives and Republicans who insist liberals and Democrats are all Marxist redistributionists. It should be obvious to everyone with eyes that today’s Democratic Party is the … Read more
Human rights groups say that the International Olympic Committee is ignoring their concerns over China’s treatment of the Uighur ethnic minority group and Beijing’s repressive policy in Hong Kong. As first reported by the Associated Press, the activists allege that the committee has “turned a blind eye to the widespread and systematic human rights violations … Read more
Are you surprised that as anarchists loot, a mainstream publisher issues, and National Public Radio boosts, a book that justifies looting? Why? Property is theft, the anarchist Proudhon declared in the 1800s, echoing a sentiment of the Marquis de Sade from the 1700s. Are you surprised Black Lives Matter leaders call for ending the nuclear … Read more