Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation – University Activism

American universities have long been viewed as places of learning, debate, and intellectual formation. For much of the nation’s history, higher education was understood as a training ground for future leaders—men and women shaped not only by technical knowledge but by habits of reasoned argument, civic responsibility, and respect for pluralism. Over the last decade,…

Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation: K-12 Public Education

Public education is not a narrow policy dispute. It sits at the crossroads of culture, economics, parental authority, national cohesion, and the future moral imagination of the country. Few institutions touch more Americans more directly or more persistently than the public school system. Over fifty million children attend public K–12 schools each year, and nearly…

Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation: Free Speech

Free speech is not a fashionable abstraction or a luxury for polite societies. It is a structural necessity for a constitutional republic. The First Amendment’s protection of speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition is not an ornament added for decoration; it is the load-bearing wall that allows every other liberty to stand. At its core,…

Media Hall of Shame Series: The Intercept

When The Intercept launched in 2014, it promised to be a radical departure from the establishment press. Born out of the Edward Snowden leaks and funded by a tech billionaire, it presented itself as the home for aggressive investigative journalism—fearless, adversarial, and independent of corporate or state influence. For a brief time, it lived up…

Media Hall of Shame: Discovery Now!

Discovery Now! is the kind of name that inspires wonder. With its bright visuals, trendy narration, and dynamic programming, it presents itself as a digital-age platform for “curious minds” and lifelong learners. A newer face in the media landscape, Discovery Now! has sought to blend educational content with pop culture relevance, aspiring to become a…

Media Hall of Shame Series: Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera presents itself to the world as a global beacon of journalism—an independent voice from the Arab world, offering a fresh, critical perspective on Western imperialism, global inequality, and injustice. With its slick design, diverse correspondents, and sharp critiques of the West, it has gained a loyal audience among college students, anti-imperialists, and progressives…

Testimonies from Survivors of Socialism and Authoritarianism in the Face of America and the West’s Leftward Drift

In every age, liberty is a fragile gift—easily dismissed, quickly squandered, and only reclaimed at great cost. The survivors of totalitarian regimes know this better than anyone. They carry scars—some physical, some spiritual—that bear witness to systems that promised equality but delivered chains, regimes that preached justice while silencing truth, movements that cried out for…

“Christian Nationalism” as a Progressive Smear – Exposing the Left’s Hostility Toward Faith and Country

In recent years, few terms have generated more alarmist headlines or rhetorical confusion than “Christian Nationalism.” To hear progressive voices in academia, media, and government tell it, this phrase evokes images of Bible-waving insurrectionists plotting theocratic coups. But scratch beneath the surface, and a different picture emerges—one not of a growing extremist movement, but of…