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Penna Dexter Newly-inaugurated New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani ran for office on a 4-point platform: rent freezes, free buses, free childcare, and city-run grocery stores. In an essay for The Claremont Review of Books, Christopher Caldwell points out that these are the policy positions of the Democratic Socialists of America which, he says, “shows signs of turning into the main political organization of the political Left.” These are bad ideas. There’s already a housing shortage. Mr. Caldwell says the rent…

Kerby Anderson James Piereson declares that “Socialism is a hate crime.” He uses this phrase often used by leftists against them because of their admiration of socialism. He thinks “it is remarkable that, despite its long record of failure, socialism is now more popular than ever among college students and in progressive precincts of the Democratic Party.” He believes that anyone with just a bit of curiosity can open a history book and see the millions who have died or…

Kerby Anderson On the last day of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin what government he had given them. His famous reply was: “A republic, madam, if you can keep it.” Professor Robert George wrote about “How to Keep Our Republic.” He begins by reminding us that most Americans are concerned about the direction of this country. “A December 2025 Gallup poll found that just 24 percent of Americans were satisfied with the nation’s direction. A Politico poll…

Kerby Anderson Law professor Jonathan Turley writes about free speech, but also has a book on Rage and the Republic about to be released. We get a preview of his concerns in his article, “Clickbait: How the left created yet another false story to trigger outrage.” To put the latest false narrative about the “bait boy” story in perspective, he begins by reminding of the outrage Democratic leaders expressed about the false story of Border agents whipping migrants in Texas….

Kerby Anderson One recent national survey discovered an ongoing ideological and spiritual drift among Americans. But what was more significant was the fact that even consistent churchgoers are abandoning traditional biblical beliefs. And they also rejected conservative social perspectives and are more likely to support socialism. The survey revealed that just a plurality of regularly churched adults (34%) now considers themselves conservative on social issues. Nearly as many describe themselves as moderate (29%) or liberal (19%). One of most striking…

Kerby Anderson The globalist vision isn’t as optimistic as it was in the past. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink (who also serves as a co-chair of the Forum), talked about how few people trust the gathered elites. “We believe that outside the United Nations, this is the largest gathering of global leadership” but is not trusted. He added that it has become “obvious that the world now places far less trust in us to…

Kerby Anderson A Pew survey from last year found that a significant number of Americans believe that socialism “gives all people an equal opportunity to be successful.” A quarter (23%) agree with this statement with another quarter (29%) agreeing with it somewhat. Vance Ginn, writing in the Washington Examiner, is alarmed “that most people who favor socialism don’t understand it or its negative consequences.” They may be motivated by emotional appeals to fairness and equality but are unaware of the…

Penna Dexter On January 13th, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases that are, arguably, the most important of the current term. At issue are laws passed in West Virginia and Idaho that protect female sports. According to these laws only biological females may participate in women’s sporting events. The American Civil Liberties Union challenged both laws in court. Their attorneys contend that these laws violate the civil rights of transgender athletes who are biological males…

Kerby Anderson The American middle class is disappearing. The editors of the Wall Street Journal believe that is good news since more Americans are earning their way into higher income brackets. That isn’t the way the decline of the middle class is being portrayed by pundits and politicians. “President Trump’s supporters use this fear of household economic decline to justify his tariffs and industrial policies. Liberals treat it as an excuse for raising taxes, redistributing income, and adding cradle-to-grave entitlements.”…

Kerby Anderson John Halpin is the executive editor of The Liberal Patriot and writes about “The Demise of Religion Among Democrats.” This significant shift may have an impact on the 2026 elections. The educational shift in the Democratic coalition has been documented in the book, Where Have All the Democrats Gone?. Democrats used to be known as the party of the working class, but now have shifted to more college-educated voters that are usually located in some of the postindustrial…

Kerby Anderson Perhaps you have seen an Internet meme that connects mathematics to the universe. It begins with a quote by Eugene Wigner, a Nobel-prize winning physicist who was considered one of the sharpest minds in quantum theory. He observed that “the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious.” Humans invented math to count, trade, and organize logic. Yet the universe obeys equations with “terrifying precision.” Humans didn’t invent math to explain the…