Our Dangerous Contempt for Work
Why “work” has become a dirty word.
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 New ‘Treason of the Clerks’
Is the world’s “last best hope” for freedom lost?
Fake History and Redistributing Wealth
Welcome to a primitive notion of “justice”.
A Game of Debt-Ceiling Chicken
And the cliff we’re speeding towards is an unprecedented default.
We Are Living in a World Made for Satire
The degradation has reached levels of absurdity not found in even the best satires.
The War on Merit Comes to Science
Welcome to the corruption of the hard sciences by identity politics.
Fake History and a Profile in Courage
How a brave scholar’s intellectual integrity shined a light on the degradation of critical thought in America.
The War on Humanity
Escalating . . . and cloaked, as always, in claims of progress.
Has the NATO Turning Point Stopped Turning?
“No nation can be trusted farther than it is bound by its interests.”
Will the Experiment in Political Freedom End in Failure?
Bad omens abound.
No Worse Friend: The West’s Treatment of Israel
Meanwhile the enemies who have sworn to wipe Israel off the map are courted and indulged.
The ‘Woke’ Tyranny
Welcome to a substitute religion filling the void created by Christianity’s decline.
Our Response to Russia’s Invasion Still Muddled
No wonder Iran, Russia, and China are licking their chops.
The Murder of the Humanities
The “woke” purveyors of “boots are better than Shakespeare” now occupy our universities.
Our Christophobic Ruling Caste
Why Christianity is a threat to our technocratic elites.
Ukraine and Our Confused Foreign Policy
When idealistic goals exceed political will and materiel grasp.
Command and Control
A new book explores how civilians and soldiers work with – and against – each other.
Don Lemon Stirs Up The “Offense”-Stasi Among His Own Comrades
The heavy – and dire – price of enabling hypersensitive snowflakes.
War is About More than Big Battalions
A reflection on what people are willing to fight, kill, and die for.
Who Guards the Race Guardians?
Who’s inflicted the most damage on the black underclass?
When Were the Media Ever Objective?
We must never forget the ingredient that is democracy’s immune system.
Our Freedom Is Getting More Fragile
What happens when “freedom” is defined as “doing whatever one likes.”
Divisive and Diverse: You Can’t Have One Without the Other
The price we pay for freedom.
Don’t Tell Me What to Do
Americans push back against petty tyrants.
Is the West Living in the End of Days?
The new axis of enemies can see that we’ve already been doing their work for them.