Analysis
How Politics Becomes Religion
The sheer ferocity of contemporary politics suggests that, for many people, it’s their real religion. […]
Marxism
Columns
Marx and Progressives: An ironic, exploitative love story
Current progressivism can plausibly be explained, in part, on Marxist grounds as a class ideology that cloaks exploitation with high-sounding rhetoric. […]
Features
Remembering Karl Marx, Prophet of Violence and Terror
On the bicentennial of Karl Marx’s birth, the world should be excoriating his ideas and the terrorism they spawned, not excusing or celebrating them. […]
The Dispatch
Men without conviction, churches without people
If ministers of the Gospel cannot challenge the world’s distortions of the Gospel with the truth of the Gospel, but fall back instead on penny-ante […]
The Dispatch
Jordan Peterson is a prophet—and a problem for progressives
Peterson understands how ideology shapes culture—and that enrages his harshest critics. […]
Essay
Secularized fundamentalism and the current leadership deficit in our political class
In the new, Western, Orwellian political world order, Enlightened appetites have become the measure of all truth. […]
The Dispatch
Charles Manson and the Weather Underground
Everyone knows that Charles Manson inspired thediabolical Tate-LaBianca murders. None of that is being forgotten in reports of his death. But what also shouldn’t be […]
Features
When evil triumphed: The 100th anniversary of Russia’s October Revolution
The centenary of the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 should be an occasion for understanding Marxism’s amoral and pseudo-religious nature. […]
The Dispatch
McCarthyism, Then and Now
Before calling the reader’s attention to a year-old Claremont Review of Books article which compares Donald Trump to Joseph McCarthy, I should first make clear that I do not regard this comparison to be such […]