Demands for Americans to pay reparations to descendants of chattel slavery in America have been growing. The case for reparations, however, has always been weak and illogical.
A wearisome part of modern life is the incessant chants of “doomsday” from intellectual, academic, political, and media elites. That their six decades of predictions all have been wrong only leads them to double down on the volume of their claims.
Now at the helm of CBS News, Bari Weiss has become the most prominent figure pushing the idea that America is held hostage by two political “extremes” that have sidelined a large, unified, moderate, and pragmatic political center. That is the opposite of the truth.
Two days before Christmas, 1913, the infamous “creature from Jekyll Island,” the Federal Reserve System, was birthed into our body politic. It has been devouring the economy ever since.
The idea is now widespread that communities or groups exercise a form of collective thought, which can be duly expressed by the leader of the group as the thoughts of the group mind.
Richard McDaniel interviews Paul Gottfried, getting his perspective on wokeness and other shenanigans and hijinks that are coming from modern American higher education.
The modern western society is built upon the welfare state, yet it is that very welfare state that is undermining the social fabric. It is time to recognize the damage the welfare state is doing and put a stop to it.
Only a couple years ago, climate change was a major political issue. Now it’s strangely absent from public discourse. Why did this happen? Because, at least for now, it stopped being the most useful way for elites to justify their power grabs.
As Congress scrambles to extend emergency subsidies to keep Obamacare afloat, it can be tempting to view the bill that made healthcare less affordable as a total failure. But that wasn’t the true purpose of the ACA. It was always meant to prop up the faltering crony healthcare system.
Modern egalitarianism is incompatible with individual liberty, something that is not proclaimed in political life. Egalitarians understand this, which is why they want to erase individual liberty altogether.
