Karl Popper wrote The Open Society and Its Enemies during the Second World War in an attempt to explain and refute the totalitarian ideologies that had delivered Europe into the hands…
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online explains how a recent Twitter incident helps bolster his argument about social media’s ills. As you may be aware thanks to my merciless flogging…
Robert Tracinski of the Federalist traces the problem to the “social” part of the equation rather than the “media.” There is now widespread agreement that social media is a problem.…
John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist explains why the Las Vegas massacre is unlikely to serve as a unifying moment for Americans. In the immediate aftermath of the massacre in…
John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist explores factors underlying the weekend violence in Charlottesville. Let’s get something out of the way: Charlottesville is not about Confederate statues or Robert E.…
David French of National Review Online responds to the hubbub over the Trump administration’s deliberate misstatements about the inaugural crowd size, along with Trump critics’ unwillingness to admit the string…
Here’s an good read from Reason on the curse of tribalism, or identity politics. That would be the race/gender/sex/creed/etc. politics primarily peddled by the left, the reaction to which was in…
In this USA Today piece, law professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds argues that the tribalization of America is among our most serious problems, one that enables unscrupulous politicians to benefit from…
That’s one of the good phrases Gene Healy uses in this DC Examiner article on the depressing state of politics in America.
Actually, George is exactly right. It is nothing more than tribalism. Primitive, reactionary, mindless — fun — tribalism. Oh, and the paid mercenaries recruited by my tribe won! Woohoo!! P.S.…
I don’t get it. Maybe I’m lacking some gene that leads to an urge to exult over the successes of others and regard them vicariously as one’s own. I just…
Sometimes all that matters is that you are on the winning team.