Greetings from LaGuardia Airport. I had to make an overnight trip to New York, and am now on my way back to the Great State of Louisiana, which is experiencing its coldest weather of the winter right ...
There’s a pattern emerging if you pay close enough attention. Civil discontent leads to civil unrest, which leads to protests and counterprotests. Without fail, what should be an exercise in how to ...
Is totalitarianism in our future? This question may seem far-fetched for some, but what is totalitarianism? Wikipedia defines it, in part, as follows: “Totalitarianism is a political system and a form ...
Amid the political and economic changes of the early 2000s, it seemed unthinkable that China would revert back to Mao-era ...
Twentieth-century totalitarianism depended on man-gods. Lenin was worshipped as not only spiritually immortal, as Mayakovsky suggested in his poem, but as materially immortal, zombified and on display ...
We’ve seen a spike over the last few years in the use of the word “authoritarianism.” This is the predictable result of the recent rise of authoritarian regimes which, to a greater or lesser extent, ...
We are all familiar with Lord Acton’s dictum “power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” It also eventually destroys. It’s happening in China right now, and it will happen in America if ...
Do you doubt where the Left is taking America? The president's speech last night was a milestone on the road to ideological captivity I was flying back to the US last night, and missed Joe Biden's ...
After local lawmakers condemned President Biden’s expanded vaccine mandates as “totalitarian measures,” I started wondering what other requirements they might consider “totalitarian”: How about ...
And yet no pillar of the postwar Western intellectual and moral order looks as feeble as anti-totalitarianism—the negatively ...