The text following the asterisks is Appendix 2 of the second edition of my book, Masculine Power, Feminine Beauty: The Volitional, Objective Basis for Heterosexuality in Romantic Love and Marriage. References appear at the end. Some of this content was published on this blog in 2015. This content appears in an appendix, not the main […]
Do I think the 2022 election was stolen? Of course. We have mail-in voting, ballot harvesting, corrupt voter rolls, and no voter ID. All these things are designed to steal elections. Am I concerned about friends who have had the Covid vaccine? Of course. We have socialized medicine. Have any of our many other severe […]
Thankfully, capable intellectuals are fighting back against the neo-Marxist “woke” ideology, which encompasses critical race theory, intersectionality, LGBT ideology, queer theory, gender studies, feminism, postcolonialism, disability studies, fat studies, and social justice. For a partial list of counters to the woke coalition of malcontents, see my recent blog post entitled “Farewell, Cedar City.” With so […]
“We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.” American politicians and bureaucrats at all levels of government have fallen to the level of socialism, with the FDA blocking creators, with the monopolistic CDC bungling what creators would otherwise do well, with administrators of socialized medicine producing […]
As is my custom, I celebrate the birthday of Ayn Rand by opening one of her novels to a random page and reading. Here is something I read today, from The Fountainhead, Part Three, Chapter 5: “I often think that he’s the only one of us who’s achieved immortality. I don’t mean in the sense of […]
I have often heard contemporary conservatives say that rights come from God, not government. It is true that rights do not come from government. But it is an unfortunate disservice to the cause of liberty to state that rights come from God. As C. Bradley Thompson documents voluminously in his great new book, America’s Revolutionary […]
Forget Labor Day. Today, September 2, is Atlas Shrugged Day. I celebrate this day each year by opening to a random page of this great novel, by Ayn Rand, and reading a passage. Here is what I found today, on page 512 of the hardcover book (New York: Random House, 1957), Part II, Chapter V (“Account Overdrawn”): […]
The new scoundrels leading the political Left are finally admitting—after more than a century of brazen lying by such Leftist scoundrels as Woodrow Wilson, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, and Barack Obama—that they are socialists. Therefore, without confusing readers and without repeating lengthy explanations, I can now just refer to Leftists as socialists. Socialism is generally […]
(Update, July 21, 2020: Charlotte Cushman has written a book, Effective Discipline the Montessori Way, on this subject. See my review.) (This is the first post on this blog written by someone other than me. It is an honor for me to publish this guest post by Charlotte Cushman, author of Montessori: Why It Matters […]
Religious Liberty Cannot Stand Without Liberty In the first two parts of this essay, I identified two important ways in which Ryan T. Anderson, in his book Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom, makes fundamental concessions to the postmodern Left in his defense of marriage. Here I identify yet another such fundamental […]