The Fallout from the Mueller Report
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. “Mountains struggle to give birth,” the Roman poet Horace wrote, “
University Admissions Scandal is a Dog-Bites-Man Story
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The revelations that parents of applicants to tony universities
The NeverTrump Bitter-Enders
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. As Trump enters his third year of office, some Republican
Why Do Progressives Reject Policies That Would Achieve Their Aims?
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Sesame Street) has delivered yet
Bad Ideas Make for Bad Progressive Policies
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Behind the stark melodrama of our political conflicts lies the
The Democrats’ Dangerous Gong Show
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Democratically elected people’s assemblies historically have been
The Moral Idiocy of Our Times
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. One of the foundational myths of modernity holds that the progress
The Republicans’ Preemptive Cringe
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Recently two events occurred that illustrate the Republican bad
Bad Ideas Are Born in Bad Universities
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. In 1726 Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels gave us a brilliant
Money Doesn’t Stink
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. In his biographies of the Roman emperors, Suetonius describes a
The Anatomy of Trumpophobia
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. In an op-ed for The Washington Post, Mitt Romney launched a
Syria and Our Foreign Policy Muddle
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Donald Trump’s decision to pull ground troops out of Syria, followed
The New Year’s Resolutions We Should Be Making
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Since Election Day 2016, one story has dominated our attention––the
The Phony ‘Crises’ of Progressives
Manufacturing a crisis to expand power.
Democracy, Deliberation, and the Internet
The insidious power of the sophist and demagogue in our 24/7 virtual world.
Kevin Hart and the Politics of Comedy
What we are really talking about is tyranny.
Talking Millennials Out of Socialism
Can a generation marked by privilege and arrogance be reasoned with?
Trump Didn’t Create Europe’s Resentment
He just refuses to tolerate its arrogant elites.
A Thanksgiving Lesson
Remembering hard truths over self-gratifying myths.
Democracy Dies in Trivia
How the media’s obsession with the superficial threatens our freedom.
Mass Migration and the Failure of Civilizational Nerve
The fatal incoherence of globalism.
Election Day: The Clear-Cut Choice Americans Face
The stark contrast between the two parties.
Foreign Policy as Moral Preening
Why we must take the world as it is, not as we dream it to be.
Elizabeth Warren and the Progressive One-Drop Rule
The leftist senator’s diversity con turns into career suicide.
Kanye West and the Fugitive Slave Law
Exposing the Left’s ferocious hate for blacks who dare to think for themselves.