What can be worse than sloppy, amateur romance fiction? Ivory tower fiction: that is, academic writing, particularly in the humanities. I should know, considering I write both. You’ve probably got some questions about at least one part of the above statements. For now, we’ll leave them (tantalizingly 😉) unanswered. Whether you know it or not,…
It’s an awkward question. Ever since last year’s BLM protestriots, both sides have entrenched themselves in different narratives about race. The conversation is so pervasive that Critical Race Theory has become a sticking point in party politics. Elections and local regulations are made or broken based upon people’s understanding of an increasingly obscure and (in…
It’s not every day that Ted Cruz agrees with AOC publicly, much less on Twitter. Then again, not every day can be like today. Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk don’t have billions of dollars in the bank. They’ve got an unlimited, revolving fund of credit that’s backed by… Their stock. That’s right. The ability to…
America has had it’s moments over the past year. No one is walking up to the dais to announce that 2020 was the best of calendar cycles. But that pales in comparison to the clown show that we saw on January 6th of 2021. The tables are turned. Leftists and liberals are wondering why there…
Yup. the absolute dumbest presidential race in recent history. Firstly, we’ve got Sleepy Joe Biden: the democrats, being the urban elitist panderers that they are, chose to run their mostly deeply-entrenched establishment candidate. They did this because they knew they could, A: please their kleptocratic Wall Street overlords and B: because they knew that Trump…
Halloween is coming. As always, one of the spookiest things in American society is bound to accompany this ritual of inversion (defined as an event that allows people to violate social norms): political correctness. On the PC ticket this year, as it is every other, is the idea of cultural appropriation. Cultural appropriation really entered…
No, I’m not talking about multiple protests. The plural reflects the dueling status of a Patriot Rally and a counterprotest organized by literal communists, a protest titled Antifa/BLM soup drive. We may as well remove the aforementioned slash (ideologically, anyway) because BLM and Antifa are pretty much in bed. Though I’d rather not expound on…
Climate change is contentious. It shouldn’t be, because it’s happening. And if we’re to have any scientific ethos and credibility whatsoever (us at this website and the general public) we’re going to need to brush off our 7th-grade chemistry and accept that. What we don’t need to accept, however, is a ‘Green New Deal’ in…
The World is Getting Better Even as we stare down the maw of a global pandemic, societal unrest, unmitigated natural disasters, and tensions between global superpowers the stats don’t lie. We’re living in the least violent and most prosperous time in human history. This, however, bespeaks a mistake in the way we think about the…
…But that doesn’t discredit the argument American political conversations in 2020 are morbid: Black Lives Matter rallies around members of the community killed by police. Biden and his running mate are castigated in the context of a mass-incarceration system they helped to architect and implement. Calls to ‘save the children’ echo across social media tableaus…