Introduction: Last week Eric Erickson published an article that claimed to have connected a lot of dots on what has come to be called the Woke Right. That article is here. He traced a lot of our woes back to Charles Haywood, a big donor on the hard right, and formulator of the “no enemies …
The Charlie Kirk Track and Field Complex
Logos School here in Moscow recently announced their plans to build a track and field complex and, having obtained permission from TPUSA, to name it after Charlie Kirk. This kind of thing is mightily offensive to the progressive left, which is going in big these days for assassination chic. In contrast, we simply wanted to …
Dinesh and the American Fixer-Upper
Introduction: Just a few short days ago, Dinesh D’Souza decided to start talking trash about Calvinism online, and—let us be frank—that created something of a set-to. The imbroglio consisted of two parts. One part had to do with the standard doctrinal questions which naturally arise whenever these questions come up. “Thou wilt say then unto …
The American Creedle
Introduction: I would like to draw your attention to comments that were recently made by Neil Gorsuch, one of the more sensible members of our Supreme Court. And, as those comments should reveal, it ...
Both Brilliant and Blind
Introduction: I first read Eric Hoffer's book The True Believer in 1984, over forty years ago now. I had also read Orwell's 1984 in that same year because I thought it was an appropriate time ...
The Rise of the Islamo-Commies
Introduction: A decade ago, Canon published Empires of Dirt, and given our cultural moment now, the subtitle is interesting to look back on. That subtitle was “Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Mere Christendom Alternative.” In some respects, the terrain back then was quite different than it is today, but in other ways, it is still …
Religious Liberty Is a Religious Value
My comments at the Grace Agenda pre-func men’s conference. Introduction: One of the downsides of our failure to recognize that secularism functions as a religion is that as a consequence we fail to recognize that secularism as a system gives birth to certain values that are in fact religious values. One such value would be …
Yearning for a Doug-Free Zone
Introduction: So The Dispatch has expressed a certain level of displeasure with me. I acknowledge at the outset that this apologia for my activities might seem like I am trying to aim my answers ...
Darryl Hart, the Wall Street Journal, and the First Person Singular Pronoun in the Objective Case
Introduction: So last week, The Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece by Darryl Hart on Presbyterians and Christian nationalism. The link is here if you want to check it out, and in ...
Birthrights and Black Pills
Introduction: The Supreme Court’s failure last week to uphold the president’s executive order on birthright citizenship was genuinely disappointing. At the same time, it should not be an occasion ...











