The Real Purge in Academia
[This is the introduction to Conformity Colleges: The Destruction of Intellectual Creativity and Dissent in America’s Universities, by David R.…
[This is the introduction to Conformity Colleges: The Destruction of Intellectual Creativity and Dissent in America’s Universities, by David R.…
Public culture today is replete with excuses for why lockdowns had to happen. Seems like more are being generated by…
Getting sick and getting well is part of the human experience at all times in all places. As with other…
Francis Collins was head of the National Institutes of Health – Anthony Fauci’s parent bureaucracy – during the wreckage caused…
Corporate bankruptcies in the US just hit the largest rate since the worst of the lockdowns. It’s a reflection of…
Many people this holiday season will experience the joy of attending a local performance of The Nutcracker ballet by Pyotr…
At least the UK held public hearings, even if they were gamed from the start. There is a smidgeon of…
Elon Musk is the world’s richest man but also the number one target of the world’s richest governments and their…
Everyone was supposed to be back at the office by now. It’s not really happening, however, and this has huge…
The New Yorker is running a contest. What should we call our era? Some possible candidates: Terrible Twenties, the Age…
[This piece was commissioned by Hillsdale College and presented on campus October 27, 2023] It’s an impossible task to explain…
The answer to the question “Will they ever admit to being wrong?” is of course: no. I’m speaking in particular…
What was the fundamental error of the Covid response? We’ve yet to come to terms with it. It traces to…
The old FedEx envelope was clever, a work of art even, optimistic and colorful, signifying speed and progress. What a…
It’s been a continuing mystery for three years, at least to me but many others too. In October 2020, in…
It’s a shift worth marking. New York Magazine is featuring an article called “COVID Lockdowns Were a Giant Experiment. It…
This is not about whether there is such a thing as a literal social contract. The phrase has always been…
In the course of almost four years, and really dating back a decade and a half, I’ve managed to read…
There is an old expression: “Success has a thousand fathers but failure is always an orphan.” It’s a spin on…
Jeremy Farrar’s book from August 2021 is relatively more candid than most accounts of the initial decision to lock down…
On March 6, 2020, the mayor of Austin, Texas, canceled the biggest tech and arts trade show in the world,…
One reporter has proven brave enough not to take the deal. The deal is: you can interview Trump provided you…
“Experts have long doubted the effectiveness of phenylephrine,” which is a common ingredient in DayQuil, NyQuil, Sudafed, Mucinex, and others.…
It’s not been Anthony Fauci’s best week. Forever intent on managing his image and public opinion on the pandemic response,…
We still don’t know precisely what caused Donald Trump to flip in his position on the coronavirus. On March 9,…
National Public Radio was in a frenzy this morning but it felt like the movie Groundhog Day: they were spreading…
Two nights ago was supposed to be a night of reckoning and truth. The intrepid and independent journalist Tucker Carlson…
The conspiracy of silence is obvious. Both political parties like it. The media likes it too because it was a…
The last three and a half years have been times of enormous upheaval. It has affected politics, economics, culture, media,…
A new biography of Tucker Carlson offers a very interesting look at the intellectual odyssey of the most popular commentator…