Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The opening credits of the Perry Mason television drama featured a
The Pulitzer Prize and the Corruption of History and Journalism
Bruce Thornton is a Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The Pulitzer folks have awarded their prize to the New York Times for the
Our Dangerous Illusions About Risk
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The coronavirus pandemic and the draconian lock-down responses to it
Earth Day in the Year of Plague
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Last week’s Earth Day came in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak
Progressive Governors Indulge Their Inner Despot
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Poet Sylvia Plath’s slur against women, that they “adore a fascist,
What Will Change After the Virus Crisis?
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. We’ve reached that point in the Wuhan pandemic when we start talking
The Coming War Between the Generations
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Short-term thinking has been the bane of democracies since ancient
The Virus Crisis: No Good Choices, Just Bad and Worse
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. President Trump’s suggestions about getting some regions of the
The Coronavirus and the November Election
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Early in the new year, President Trump seemed in good shape to be
The Progressive Chatty Cathy Dolls Don’t Like America
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Chatty Cathy was a doll popular in the late Fifties to the mid-
I Am Woman, Hear Me Whine
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. After Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the primary race, the
Which Virus Is More Dangerous?
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The two big stories these days are the COVID-19 outbreak and the
Progressive Big Lies
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The “big lie” was Adolf Hitler’s term in Mein Kampf for the
The Balkanized Democrats
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The slogan of “diversity” has always contained a fundamental
Socialism Makes People Do Strange Things
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Apart from the bizarrerie of Trumpophobia, the wide-spread Democrat
Trump Battles the Progressive ‘Fear Society’
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. “Fear Society” is Natan Sharansky’s term for a socio-political order
President Trump Joins the ‘Peace Processors’
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. For decades the “peace process,” the attempt to resolve the Israeli-
End the Impeachment Circus
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Not since Caligula enrolled his horse Incitatus in the Roman Senate
Beware the Fool’s Gold of Diplomacy
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The killing of Qassem Soleimani by a U.S. drone strike, and Iran’s
False Analogies: The Heart of Fake Foreign Policy News
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The false analogy fallacy occurs when superficial similarities
The Iran Cringe of the Progressives
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The progressives’ reactions to President Trump’s elimination of
We Have Lost the War on Christmas
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The “war on Christmas” meme popular this time of year hasn’t been as
The Founders Feared Tyranny More Than Partisan Rancor
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Maybe it’s the Christmas season, or maybe it’s the grotesquely rabid
Brexit Won. Now It’s Up to Trump to Win in 2020
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. In 2016 two political earthquakes struck the establishment consensus
What Purpose Does NATO Serve?
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. While the political class obsessed over act two of the House