

Conservatives should abandon their fantasies of savior strongmen.

China’s Social-Credit System Arrives on British Shores
Catastrophes are accelerants of government expansion, and the pandemic will go down in history as one in a series of quantum leaps into a more statist world.

How the West Lost God
The overwhelming cause of secularization in the West has been government control of education.

Why Meritocracy Makes Us Miserable
Today, the compulsive habit of comparison driven by our democratic way of life has gotten entirely out of hand.

How Critical Race Theory Gets into Classrooms
Americans should not be duped by attempts to convince them that CRT is just a teaching tool or a passing fad.

Ban Critical Race Theory from K–12 Classrooms: A Response to the New York Times
There can be no credible objection to prohibiting the racially based shaming of children.

C-SPAN’s Woeful Presidential Ranking List
It’s hard to make heads or tails here of precisely what rubric might have been used by the historians in question.

How July 4 Threatened the Confederacy
The Declaration of Independence, not the ratification of the Constitution, marks the nation’s birth. That truth helped save the Union and free the slaves.

Money and Markets in Camelot
Charles Williams’s poem Taliessin Through Logres has a worthwhile lesson for readers.

Atheists against Atheism
It’s not a coincidence that many of our intellectuals are beginning to write about Christianity’s normative influence on our moral intuitions at this time.