Apr 12, 2021Serious Consequences for Unserious PeopleWhile we fret about transgender girls in sports and rig up a billion-dollar industry to indoctrinate our corporate and government workers with critical race theory, around us the world keeps turning. The way the world ends, T.S. Eliot reminds us, is “Not with a bang but a whimper.” But our…China5 min readChina5 min read
Mar 26, 2021Myopia’s Archetype (Review of Delgado and Stefancic’s “Critical Race Theory”)Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic are the academy’s equivalent to the single-issue voter: too narrow-minded to see the bigger picture and too self-centered to put themselves in somebody else’s shoes. Why is it that the Woke aimed to reduce six works of Dr. Seuss, known primarily as the author and…Blm11 min readBlm11 min read
Published inCurious·Feb 10, 2021The Anti-Antifa Handbook (Review of Andy Ngo’s “Unmasked”)A civilization which forgets or rewrites its unique past is a civilization doomed to succumb to the centrifugal forces cranked up by the extremists within its ranks. Reading about Antifa, its modi operandi, its motives, and its insidious influences on our Western societies has been a long-time pre-occupation of yours…Antifa7 min readAntifa7 min read
Feb 7, 2021Sorry SJWs, Your Program Is Not RationalWhatever problems we are facing, they require a course correction at most, not for us to dismantle the entire ship. Rumors of an incident in my hometown spread like a wildfire this week. Someone came out on social media with a story from a black friend who claimed that she…Critical Race Theory7 min readCritical Race Theory7 min read
Jan 7, 2021DownfallYesterday’s events were mostly the doing of a president who, in defeat, proved unable to contain his base impulses. — Let’s get the following three disclaimers out of the way. #1: Yours truly would have crawled over broken glass to vote for Donald Trump in November twenty-five times had the law permitted it. …Trump5 min readTrump5 min read
Nov 7, 2020Trumpism Was Not Defeated. But Can It Recover?Trumpism wasn’t defeated on Tuesday. It was locked up in a pressure cooker put on its highest setting. This much is clear: Progressives expecting a blue landslide on Tuesday have been proven utterly wrong. …Biden5 min readBiden5 min read
Oct 30, 2020No, Trump Won’t Bring About Authoritarianism — But Biden MightAn existential angst has taken hold of America. It’s come in the form of a realization that our constitutional republic may be slipping through our fingers. This anxiety seems to be the one point of bipartisan agreement in our otherwise hopelessly divided body politic. …Blm7 min readBlm7 min read
Sep 24, 2020A Return To Normalcy Requires the Re-election of President TrumpJustice Ginsburg’s unfortunately timed death serves as another depressing reminder how despicably polarized our body politic has become. In a period of just four hours it became obvious that few, if any, are even concerned with the Justice’s legacy anymore. …Trump6 min readTrump6 min read
Published inCurious·Sep 11, 2020In Defense of Liberalism (Review of “Cynical Theories”)It is a boring platitude that history has produced its share of intellectual folly. Jean Jacques Rousseau, for example, believed that humans are born a “blank slate” and only corrupted as they grow up in modern society, an assertion he could have known to be insane merely by paying a…Blm7 min readBlm7 min read
Aug 10, 2020A Tale of Two Narratives: Review of “White Fragility”Yours truly finished reading two books last week, each of which rather instructive in its own way. The first is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s three-volume The Gulag Archipelago. In this world-famous, monumental work published in 1973, the author offers a horrifying look into life in the Soviet prison camps. Contrary to popular…White Fragility9 min readWhite Fragility9 min read
