Our new elite have more refined sensibilities than the old aristocracy: just as dowager duchesses would sniff that so-and-so was in trade, so today's rulers have an antipathy to doers in general. How...
Once it's no longer accepted that something is wrong, all the laws in the world will avail you naught. The law functions as a formal embodiment of a moral code, not as a free-standing substitute for i...
It is easier, said Frederick Douglass, to build strong children than to repair broken men.
In his book Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift, Paul Rahe writes, Human dignity is bound up with taking responsibility for conducting one's own affairs. But today the state cocoons one's own affairs so...
In 2008, America elected a man with no hands-on experience of anything who promptly cocooned himself within a circle of advisors with less experience of business, of the private sector, of doing than...
If I've sounded a wee bit overwrought in recent columns, it's because America is seizing up before our eyes. And I'm a little bewildered by how many Americans can't see it. I see that chap at LaGuardi...
Free speech and a dynamic, innovative society are intimately connected: a culture that can't bear a dissenting word on race or religion or gender fluidity or carbon offsets is a society that will ceas...
For a century, Edison's light bulb was regarded as a beacon of American genius; then it became a 'climate criminal. That transformation is American decline in a nutshell.
Far from being tortured, the prisoners [at Guantanamo] are being handled literally with kid gloves (or simulated kid-effect gloves). The U.S. military hands each jihadist his complimentary copy of the...
But in practice the lack of belief in divine presence is just as likely to lead to humans avoiding responsibility: if there's nothing other than the here and now, who needs to settle disputes at all?...
A final word to the children: do you want to get suckered like your big brothers and sisters? Those saps who spent 2008 standing behind the Obamessiah swaying and chanting, We are the dawning of the H...
You cannot wage a sustained ideological assault on your own civilization without grave consequences. We are approaching the end of the Anglo-American moment, and the eclipse of the powers that built t...
We're the endangered species, not the spotted owl. The population explosion is a prop of the Western progressive's bizarre death-cultism. We are so bad, so polluting, so exploitative, so violent, so d...
Unfortunately, magnanimity is often seen as weakness by those on the receiving end. It's easy to be sensitive, tolerant, and multicultural--it's the default mode of the age---yet, when you persist in...
The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels - and in the real problems we pay no heed to [population decline]...In rea...
The populations of wealthy democratic societies expect to have total choice over their satellite TV packages, yet think it perfectly normal to allow the state to make all the choices in respect of the...
The business of America is business, said Calvin Coolidge. Now the business of America is regulation. It is necessary for once free people to take back responsibility for their own affairs. Ultimately...
It was not ironic that the most liberal country in western Europe should be so eager to descend into a revoltingly illiberal servitude. It was entirely foreseeable. Justifying extraordinary levels of...
In the Sixties, the hippies used to say, Never trust anyone over 30. Now all the Sixties hippies are in their sixties, and they've gone quiet about that, but it's good advice for you: never trust anyo...
I saw a fellow in a T-shirt the other day. He was at LaGuardia and he was being trod all over, by the obergropinfuhrers of the TSA, who had decided to subject him to one of their enhanced pat-downs....