Enslaved by Islam: Yasmine Mohammed’s Journey to Freedom
If you have any empathy at all, you will find Yasmine Mohammed’s Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam one of the most emotionally powerful autobiographies you’ll ever read. In…
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Steve Phillips: Putting Identity Politics into Practice
In "Brown Is the New White" Steve Phillips makes the argument that progressive candidates and Democrat Party outreach groups are wasting money “chasing white swing voters” because the “explosive population…
Five Fingers over You: A Glimpse of the Early Soviet Union
In Five Fingers over You, Armin Wegner provides a fascinating and sobering glimpse of Soviet society in 1927, during the window between Lenin’s death in 1924 and the Stalinist horrors…
Justice on Trial Features CRC Research
In Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court, Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino recount the mass hysteria that gripped America’s judiciary during the 2018…
Loving Mankind Poorly
This article originally appeared in RealClearBooks on February 1, 2019. A review of Daniel J. Mahoney’s The Idol of Our Age: How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity. In his…
The Future of the Nation
This article originally appeared in City Journal on September 21, 2018. “Nationalism was not always understood to be the evil that current public discourse suggests,” philosopher Yoram Hazony…
Magazine Funding Skews Left. What Can Conservatives Do About It?
This article originally appeared in RealClearBooks on July 6, 2018. Generally and increasingly, public-affairs media outlets are unable to turn a profit and survive in the marketplace. Much of…
Philanthropy Against Democracy
Knowledge is power. So Sir Francis Bacon is supposedly the first to have said, in 1597. Well, okay, knowledge is generally considered a good thing, and it can serve good…
Living Right
This article originally appeared in the Claremont Review of Books, April 9, 2018. The Heritage Foundation’s Lee Edwards is one of the nation’s foremost historians of conservatism. Edwards’s books include histories…
Big Oil, Standing Rock Sioux, and how to actually help American Indians
This article originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily In 2011 I was in a coffee shop across the street from the main Occupy encampment in Washington. I was trying to read…