In 2001, David Brooks penned an Atlantic cover story titled “The Organization Kid.” He observed that, unlike previous generations, those in college between the end of the Cold War and 9/11 “felt no compelling need to rebel.” Not only did they submit to authority, they seemed to “admire it,” he wrote. They wanted to join the...
In 2001, David Brooks penned an Atlantic cover story titled “The Organization Kid.” He observed that, unlike previous generations, those in college between the end of the Cold War and 9/11 “felt no compelling need to rebel.” Not only did they submit to authority, they seemed to “admire it,” he wrote. They wanted to join the...
The most significant conclusion we can draw from news that a grand jury has been impaneled by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is that the so-called Russia investigation, officially, is a criminal...
Young Americans are usually thought of as decidedly liberal. This is an oversimplified picture. A sizeable minority of Millennials identify as conservative. Despite some evidence that Millennial...
It was once hard to imagine that the Western would ever go out of fashion. As epitomized by the novels of Zane Grey, the movies of John Wayne, and television shows such as The Lone Ranger and...
When they have command of their senses, U.S. policymakers tend to think better of involving our nation deeply in Ukraine. So this week’s calls from lawmakers and policy wonks to arm Ukraine are...
A friend of mine who attended the Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this year – I skipped it — reported to me that the young Republican men were “wearing their ties down past...
H. R. McMaster, lieutenant general in the U.S. Army and now the Trump administration’s (second) national-security adviser, has spent most of his career defending the U.S. against Islamists. Now,...
'God's Battalions launches a frontal assault on the comfortable myths that scholars have popularized about the crusades. The results are startling. His greatest achievement is to make us see the crusaders on their own terms.' - Philip Jenkins, author of The Lost History of Christianity
