The Political Adviser

We’re not sure why, but the other day, the conservative commentator Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) dredged up a three-year-old interview...

Over the course of the last couple of weeks, the opposition to President Trump has morphed into opposition to the entire federal...

Our world -- or at least its politics -- is nothing if not delusional, ruled by Fiction, by falsehoods. One shudders at the horrors of...

Before there was a Left, there was no Right. Of course, there had been many conflicts during the preceding fifteen or so centuries...

Our story today opens in a prison cell in Italy where a sickly, diminutive, brilliant, thirty-six-year-old fellow named Antonio Gramsci...

Twenty years ago last month, we penned one of our favorite and most controversial pieces. Regular readers will recognize it well, not...

We were remiss last week in that we failed to note the ugly but important 52nd anniversary of the start of Mao Tse Tung’s “Great...

This past Tuesday, May 8th, was the 119th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Hayek. Although Hayek was a serious economist who won the...

A few weeks back, in a piece on Orwell and the effects of imprecise language, we argued that the contemporary use of the term “Nazi” was...

This poem was written in 1907 as an angry protest against the appalling treatment of England’s poor working class at the hands of the...

Much has been said and written about the tragic case of Alfie Evans, a two-year old British child with a thus-far undiagnosed...

Christianity has been at war with leftist atheism since the 17th century, when the ideology that would become known as the Left emerged...

By Jonathan Swift This Poem was written in 1736 by one of the world’s greatest satirists. It is a biting portrayal of the Irish...

The primary purpose of this web site is to “educate and enlighten” – just as it says at the top of the home page. Being both...

In an essay entitled "Politics and the English Language," written in 1946, George Orwell argued that political disorder was inevitably...

Kevin Williamson, we feel your pain. We really do. You’ve been the subject of a deal of frustration over the last week and the object of...

Political experts of all shapes, sizes, and political predispositions are currently fixated on the notion that the November midterm...

History and literature are replete with examples of men and women who bravely risked their lives and their reputations for a cause that...

So...Congress just passed a massive budget bill, which Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana rightly described as "a Great Dane-sized whiz...

A month ago, we posted a poem for preppers entitled Sanctuary by Donald Davidson. We thought we would follow that up with another one for...