I’m at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference, and Jordan Peterson just spoke. I was moved by what he said. Namely, that we need to rediscover a uniting principle that transcends hedonism, the seeking of immediate gratification, and basic power. It made me a little emotional, tbh, because I realised just how much I grew up i…
Thomas Sowell deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom, if for only one reason: his courage.
I had a front row seat in the late 1980’s culture wars and saw how vicious the liberal response to my father, Shelby Steele, was when he spoke his mind freely. He was told he wasn’t black, was called a race traitor, and lost everything from jo…
I’m very familiar, I grew up covering that stuff, but I think people don’t understand how different this is - we’re not talking about local book bannings or even yanking of art grants for atheists or anything like that. There may be an equivalent instinct to censor in some circles but the sheer scale of laws like the DSA or NetzDG ot the…