The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump is disqualified from appearing on that state's ballot because of the Constitution's Insurrection Clause, Article 14, Section 3. The ruling applies just to Colorado, but it has been stayed pending review by the Supreme Court, which could apply it nationwide.
Neo-conservative historian Robert Kagan has written a piece in the Washington Post entitled "A Trump Dictatorship Is Increasingly Inevitable." Others are raising a similar alarm. Trump isn't dictator material. But democracies can turn to dictatorship, and in today's "illiberal" climate on both the right and the left, the danger is real.
The military stalemate in Ukraine, the Government's plan to seize patents, and locking out teachers who won't lie to parents.
For both the journalist Kennedy Hall and author G. K. Chesterton, the figure of Santa Claus taught them experientially the concept of grace, which they later found fulfilled in the Christian faith. Plus more thoughts on Santa and how Chesterton can help us recover the wonder of physical reality.
Time Magazine picked Taylor Swift as Person of the Year. Who would be your pick?
In the course of writing about Ayaan Hirsi Ali's conversion to Christianity, Carl Trueman raises an important point about "instrumentalizing the gospel"; that is, using Christianity as the means to an earthly end. Liberal Protestants do that, he says, and conservatives must resist the temptation. But I don't think that's what Ali is doing.
The biggest problem of "Napoleon" movie is that it conveyed nothing about why Napoleon was so important and the impact that he had, to this very day. We need to come to grips with that because many people today are yearning for a Napoleon: a dictator for a good cause.
The open support of Islamic terrorism and the rebirth of old-school anti-semitism--which goes beyond opposition to "Zionism" to assaults on Jewish students--is at least waking up the public to how bad things have gotten on university campuses. John Ellis argues that "our corrupt, radical universities feed every scourge from censorship and crime to antisemitism." Examples of whole disciplines being gutted and race-based hiring, though dissidents remain.
A third war with U.S. involvement is brewing in South America; a radical new way of pricing medicine; and the $250 million communist.
Progressives, whether liberals or revolutionary Marxists, used to believe that we were progressing towards a utopia. No more. Now progressive ideology offers no way out of the cycles of power and oppression. The Left now practices resistance and subversion for their own sake. Ashley Frawley calls this "the new progressive nihilism," and says it explains the left's celebration of Hamas atrocities.
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