Black Market Religions
“Secularization is a religious process rather than an irreligious.”
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:
The Real Problem With Higher Education
And the real engine behind socialism’s resurgence.
Why Socialism?
The attraction – and darkness – of stirring up envy and resentment.
Patriotism is Fighting Back
Reversing the demonization of American history and heroes like Christoper Columbus.
President Trump Gives the Globalists Another Lesson – But More Are Needed
The bad ideas that spawned the UN are deeply entrenched in the West.
The Left’s Attacks on Patriotism and the Constitution
What drives these sadistic punks?
The Dangerous Wages of Oikophobia
The decline of patriotism displayed by Democrats after 9/11 has metastasized.
The West Plagues Israel With Magical Thinking
Let Israel finish the job.
Trump Meets With Putin––and TDS Monday Morning Quarterbacking
Either give a hand or get out of the way.
Education and Wealth Trump All Identity Politics
Under Trump, we stand a chance of returning to our Constitution.
How Did Child-Rearing Get So “Gentle”?
Creating flawed characters, dangerous ideologies, and bad habits among our young.
The Unbearable Lightness of the Woke Mind
“Political correctness” pales next to the stupidity, toxic hyperbole, and preposterous lies of wokeness.
‘That’s Not Funny!’
The Left’s fatal humor deficit.
The New Dangers of the Woke Left
The work to restore the integrity of the Constitution isn’t done.
Democracy’s Perennial Weakness
The reckoning we face.
Making July 4th Great Again
In only a few months, Trump has corrected his predecessors’ Titanic course of our ship of state.
The West Still Doesn’t Get Islam
We must be careful not to succumb to magical thinking.
President Trump Speaks with Bold Action
We couldn’t afford to continue this theater of diplomacy.
The Big Lie: ‘Stolen Land’
Welcome to the bastardization of history.
The Graves of Academe
The rot is deep.
Long TDS
A serious illness that keeps the Dems in the voters’ doghouse.
The Wages of Conspicuous Compassion
When we finance enemies who are sworn to our destruction.
Our Feckless Nature Fakery
Confronting the inhumanity of nature.
From Critical Consciousness to Oikophobia
Do our enemies think and believe as we do?
The Spoiled Brats of Academe
“Democracy cannot thrive without a certain diet of truth.”