Adolescence: A Heresy
For about the last 150 years, American parents have infantilized teenagers by refusing to let them make decisions. As is usual when society turns in the wrong direction, it wasn"t average Americans who created the ...
For about the last 150 years, American parents have infantilized teenagers by refusing to let them make decisions. As is usual when society turns in the wrong direction, it wasn"t average Americans who created the ...
Back in September 2019, as Greta Thunberg gave yet another 100 percent recycled speech about climate change to the U.N. to predictable applause from the great and the good, ever eager to outdo one another in the game of ...
I daresay that the vice of rashness has pervaded much of the conservative movement in America (as it once did right-wing movements in Europe). In fact, it has almost destroyed that movement. I challenge the reader to visit ...
As the cooling winds of austerity move in across superheated Britain, one gallant group is arming for war. The large trade unions, headed up by the so-called "Awkward Squad" of leftist leaders, are on the move. It ...
My distant ancestor Aesop (just kidding, folks) was fond of fables, so let me follow in his footsteps. This is the story of the Gadfly and the Pervert. Norman Finklestein was a Maoist revolutionary when young, which he ...
Consider two children, white, boys, growing up in contented middle-class families in the same suburb of Washington, DC, equally bright, popular, successful with girls, and so on. One becomes a growling conservative, the ...
Quebec, la belle province, was once a land as Christ-haunted as Flannery O’Connor’s American South, with classical parish churches at the heart of towns and cities, and crucifixes in classrooms, courtrooms, and ...
Indiana Jones was born in 1899 which would make him 102-year old on September 11, 2001 and which explains why he couldn"t be taking part in the war against Islamo-Fascism in 2008 in the new "Indiana Jones and the ...
Within the conservative movement of the time, such as it was, the main appeal was a visceral anti-Communism, which generally appeared in two varieties. The McCarthyite "enemy within" version, practiced with alacrity ...
"Make a child smile"kill a counselor." A passable joke and an admirable sentiment. Face it, a kid cannot even fart these days without being offered counseling or Ritalin. We are enfeebled by prevailing victim ...
In a recent column for InsideCatholic.com, the generally admirable Catholic politician Lew Lehrman makes the case for invoking the Abolitionist movement as the historic precedent for the pro-life attempt to protect the ...
The fact that neoconservatives have thought and acted in terms of secularized Judaism places them in the larger company of many other atheistic ideologues who were more than willing to bring heaven down to earth through ...
Do women need to start speaking out about what they are witnessing their girlfriends doing to men? Is it time for some honesty and realism in the sex misconduct debate so that we can separate one thing from another, in ...
In one sense, I halfway agree with Nancy Pelosi. Screaming or shouting down politicians or fellow citizens in a public forum isn’t exactly productive. Yet I also agree with Thomas Jefferson, who wrote that “When ...
Back in January I threatened to inflict on Takimag readers a series of articles on how to convince patriotic conservatives that it's time for America to scale back significantly on the military spending that wastes so vast ...
Despite sharing much in the way of popular culture and language, Canadians like to establish their identity as explicitly distinct from their powerful neighbor to the south. And they often do so according to a collection of ...
Yesterday, in an already much remarked upon column, David Brooks reviewed the state of the kulturkampf between "assertive atheists" and "defenders of faith" by way of a discussion of developments in ...
Does one American in a thousand know that the Federal government is buying 23 VIP helicopters, each one of which will cost more than the extravagantly expensive F-22 fighter aircraft? A half-billion dollar ...
America is in debt past its eyeballs. Unemployment remains stuck near double digits. Small and large businesses, unions and insurers are clamoring for Obamacare waivers in droves. Jihadists are making a mockery of homeland ...
A bold terrorist attack on a peaceful city strikes fear, then horror among bystanders, then an entire nation. Gunmen barely out of their teens, sent on a clandestine one-way mission against a hated foe, create a bloody ...
One of the characteristics of the present age, no doubt a consequence of the expansion of tertiary education beyond the capacity of people to benefit from it, is the prevalence of intellection without intellect. Mr. ...
Those who do not regularly read the conservative review Modern Age may be unaware of the revolt against neo-conservatism that has lately broken out in that journal. But the revolt is a fact, and a significant one at that. ...
Until the Underpants Bomber tried to blow up Flight 253 over Detroit, the frontrunner for the Best Picture Oscar was widely assumed to be Up in the Air. Indeed, before the Christmas Day incident reminded everybody of how ...
I do have to wonder why these young women do this to themselves"make sex tapes and then try to put themselves forward into the public eye. They must know by now that in this digital age such tapes are obviously going to ...
