The Danger of the Secularist Sensibility
The high cost of the modernist inability to take religion seriously.
Bruce Thornton
Bruce S. Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, an emeritus professor of classics and humanities at California State University, Fresno, and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His latest book is Democracy’s Dangers and Discontents: The Tyranny of the Majority from the Greeks to Obama.
Recent Articles:
‘Diplomatic Engagement’ Camouflages the Betrayal of Israel
The folly of diplomacy as the way to lasting peace in the Middle East.
Education for Freedom, Not DEI
The dire urgency for access to alternative ideas.
The Lilliputian Dems Still Struggling to Keep Trump Bound
You can’t beat something with nothing.
Normalizing Atrocities
Landmarks of shame.
Two Cheers for the First Amendment
Lessons from the arrest of Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram.
The Progressives’ Long March
Targeting the Constitution’s guardrails against tyranny.
A Deep Dive into a Harris Word-Salad
Why her handlers are keeping her sequestered from the media and voters.
The Two-State Solution Could Become Another Final Solution
Intensifying decades of catastrophic policies.
Joe Biden and the Dems’ Supreme Court “Reform”
The war on our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
The Dangers of a President Kamala
The coming election: Our Republic’s last chance?
The Trump Transformation
Turning the Republican Party into winners.
The Mother of Big Lies
“Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?”
Concentrating the Enemy’s Mind
“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
What Was Missing from the Debate
Clashing personalities and verbal jousting aren’t enough.
Why Are We Shocked by Dems’ Cruelty to Joe Biden?
How the inhumanity of the “woke” Left became an institutionalized feature of the Democrat Party.
Progressive Technocracy, Infantilism, and the Problem of the West
An interview with Freedom Center Shillman Fellow and historian Bruce Thornton.
A Half-Century of Appeasing Iran
The suicidal cost of blinding ourselves to the Mullahs’ true world view.
The Globalist Perversion of Justice
Agendas over principles.
Squabbling Congresswomen Are Not the Problem
Signs of Madison’s Constitutional guardrail that “ambition must be made to counter ambition.”
A Landmark on the Road to Decline
What the Biden regime and its political operators don’t consider.
Stop Negotiating With Wolves
The consequences of not learning from history and tradition.
America’s Poisonous Antiwar Protests
Have we moved the doomsday clock to the brink of midnight?
Israel and the Decline of the West
Don’t think our enemies haven’t noticed our civilizational failure of nerve.
Our ‘Woke’ Rackets
We know who will pay the bill.