Cultural Analysis

  Censorship rears a beastly new head in every era. For “corrupting the minds of the youth of Athens,” Socrates, Western philosophy’s founding moral philosopher, was sentenced to death. The unthinkable crime of translating the Bible into English was punishable by excommunication in Medieval Europe – John Wycliffe escaped by the skin of his teeth. Victor Hugo, whose epic Les Misérables has …

  Digital McCarthyism: The Matt Taibbi speech on the Twitter Files, testifying at the “Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on the Twitter Files” for the House Judiciary Committee, sums up a horrifying level of centralized censorship. “The original promise of the Internet was that it might democratize the exchange of information globally. A free internet would overwhelm …

  Psychologist Jordan Peterson has millions of young, male followers. They all read his bestseller 12 Rules for Life. An Antidote to Chaos and flock to the YouTube channel.  They claim that his unconventional rebel style against today’s crippling political correctness helps them find order in the modern chaos of relativism, writes historian and bestselling author, Hanne Nabintu Herland in …

  What would make nations that are notoriously hostile to freedom, diversity, women’s rights, and, in short, everything the West believes in, donate billions of dollars to fund, of all things, liberal American universities? Foreign Nations Pay Millions: The answer seems clear enough: elite universities produce American leaders, and foreign money—“donations”—buys power and influence over those very same future leaders, …

  Herland Report: Welfare and Feminism Destroyed the American Family: Stephen Baskerville, a writer I have followed for many years, explains in the June 2021 issue of Chronicles that it is the US welfare system constructed by the “Great Society” programs, not racism, that explains the plight of many black Americans. Democrat US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned at the time that the …

  Serious social instability is now threatening the foundations of the United States. Yet, it is no surprise that this is happening. The breakdown of the cultural cornerstones that held us together happened by design. In a series of articles, I examine what went wrong with the Marxist feminism that has accomplished to bring down the family in the West, …

  As the racism debate focuses solely on white racism, it may be time to remind everyone that it was “white” Christian activists, priests and the British Empire that abolished slave trade.   The slave trade in question began in Africa when the tribes at war with each other, sold the slaves that they acquired from other black tribes, to the …

  The Defenders of the West: Which values are we really fighting for? The historical virtues that once built a world-leading Western civilization or the atheist hedonist relativism that permeates Western thinking today? Which of these values hold the moral high ground? “He who occupies the high ground…will fight to advantage,” wrote the Chinese military strategist and mastermind, Sun Tzu …

  Centerfold to the communist ideology so popular in the United States’ Marxist cancel culture mainstream narrative, is the rebellion against the ethical concept that good and evil runs through every human heart. Marxist Victimization: The cornerstone conservative view of morality is that each man needs self-discipline to restrain his wishes to indulge in selfishness at the expense of others. …

  The U.S. Government’s Secret History of Grisly Experiments: “They were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them for what they are until it’s too late.” — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children I have never known any government to put the best interests of its people first, and …