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Everyone is familiar with “peer-pressure.” Adults like to convince themselves that peer-pressure is a juvenile phenomenon, something to which only children and, especially, teenagers are subjected.  Grown-ups, we assure ourselves, are sufficiently tough-minded and strong-willed.  Unlike weaker, immature kids, we are individuals with the courage to go our own way—regardless of who thinks what. This…

According to The College Fix, a campus watchdog organization run by students, the political donations of Duke University employees are ten times higher in the year since Donald Trump was elected to the presidency than they were in the year following the reelection of Barack Obama. The Center for Responsive Politics found that Duke faculty…

Time has bestowed its “Person of the Year Award” to “the silence breakers,” i.e. those who, according to USA Today, “triggered a #MeToo national outcry over sexual harassment.” This #MeToo campaign is quite a peculiar thing to behold. First, the vast majority of those men who have been accused of sexual improprieties tend to be…

Since the crushing, truly humiliating defeat that it suffered with the election of Donald J. Trump to the presidency, neoconservatism, at least temporarily, experienced a dramatic reversal of fortunes. It isn’t, of course, that neoconservatives have gone away; and it certainly isn’t the case that they have lost power and influence in any substantive—as opposed…

In the interest of full disclosure, I have never been a football fan. This explains why it is only now, over a year after Colin Kaepernick took his infamous knee during the national anthem, that I am bothering to address this topic. For purposes of clarity and simplicity, I will refer to the act of…

While it seems that President Trump and the 86% or so of Americans who agree with him scored a decisive victory in the “culture wars” over the NFL and its Kaepernickists, no one, of whom I’m aware, has yet gotten to the root of the phenomenon of Kaepernickism. Yet Colin Kaepernick himself revealed it to…

In the present controversy over the NFL, there are basically two sides. On the one side are the Kaepernickists, those professional players and their apologists who insist that in refusing to stand for the national anthem and acknowledge the American flag, they do not intend any anti-Americanism but, rather, wish only to draw the nation’s…

My most recent article, “Columbus, the West, and the Myth of the Noble Savage,” elicited a quite surprising response from a friend that took me off guard. Although no one with whom I shared this article raised a single syllable’s worth of an objection to any of the facts that I stated, she proceeded to…

As of this writing, it has been a little more than a week since Stephen Paddock opened fired on some 22,000 attendees at a country music concert in Las Vegas, murdering 58 and hospitalizing over 500 more. Shortly before Paddock began spraying the crowd with bullets, those in attendance were waving American flags while singing…

Well, it’s Christopher Columbus Day again. And this, of course, means that it is but another occasion for leftists everywhere to repudiate their own civilization. For a few decades now, the 15th century European explorer’s face has been held up as that of Western civilization, i.e. the face of all that is evil in the…
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