The following is adapted from a talk delivered on September 12, 2023, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdaleās Washington, D.C., campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. The transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere. Most publicly, activist teachers are using classrooms to […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Christopher F. Rufohttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngChristopher F. Rufo2023-11-11 00:27:572023-11-11 08:06:54Weekend Read: Imprimis – Inside the Transgender Empire
As the narrative of the Covid era settles, it looks as if we are intent on forgetting what actually happened and who was responsible. Pandemics have a way of falling out of historical memory. President George W. Bush read historian John Barryās book The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Plague in HistoryĀ over […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Helen Andrewshttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngHelen Andrews2023-10-28 00:32:302023-10-26 07:26:16Weekend Read: Mass Madness at Three [Getting Covid Right]
I. When the commons was Eden The commonsā is a foundational idea in left political philosophy. The commons refers to shared spaces ā oceans, lakes, rivers, forests, the air ā that are not owned by anyone. It can also refer to cultural spaces ā the town square for example. I could make a case that […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Toby Rogershttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngToby Rogers2023-10-19 00:30:562023-10-19 11:25:04The Rise of Pharma Fascism and the Ruination of the Commons
Editors’ Note: The following essay is the second of three by Terri Marcroft. We refer you to her first essay published in September in The Prickly Pear: Weekend Read: How Abortion Hurts Women. The issue of single mothers and fatherless children is a major cause of poor outcome for millions of children and the following […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Terri Marcrofthttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngTerri Marcroft2023-10-13 00:30:032023-10-13 20:56:37Weekend Read: The Harsh Realities Of Single Parenting
If you have not yet read the book 1984Ā by George Orwell, you absolutely must. I loathed that novel when I read it as a teen, because I hated the entire idea of an authoritarian government controlling its people so deftly. The dystopian world it described was just so depressing, so wrong, from the first page […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/iStock-860267152.jpg45008000Bobby Anne Flower Coxhttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngBobby Anne Flower Cox2023-10-06 00:28:222023-10-04 11:38:53Donāt Believe Your Lying Eyes
I am one of five private plaintiffs in the landmark free speech case Missouri v. Biden. Earlier this month, the Fifth Circuit Court found that the government āengaged in a years-long pressure campaign designed to ensure that the censorship [on social media] aligned with the governmentās preferred viewpointsā and that āthe platforms, in capitulation to […]
Famously, at the start of his 1849 essay, āOn the Duty of Civil Disobedience,ā Henry David Thoreau observed, āThat government is best which governs least.ā Few policymakers or politicians during COVID were influenced by Thoreau, who also pointed out that āgovernment never furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got of its […]
Since early 2021 we have witnessed somewhere between 7 million and 8 million illegal entries across the now-nonexistent southern border of the U.S. The more the border vanished, the more federalĀ immigration lawĀ was rendered inert, and the more Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas spun fantasies that the āborder is secure.ā He is now written off as […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Victor Davis Hansonhttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngVictor Davis Hanson2023-09-26 00:30:392023-09-26 11:47:42Hereās How Biden Admin Destroyed Our Immigration Law
Former President DonaldĀ TrumpĀ is drawing fire from pro-life leaders for describing Floridaās heartbeat protections for the unborn as āterrible.ā āI think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake,ā Trump told NBCās new āMeet the Pressā host, Kristen Welker, in an interview that aired Sunday. The former president was referring to Republican Florida […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Mary Margaret Olohanhttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngMary Margaret Olohan2023-09-24 00:28:392023-09-23 07:34:08Top Pro-Life Leaders Slam Trump for Calling Heartbeat Protections for Unborn āTerribleā
Markets function within a complex framework of regulatory and central bank influence.Ā This regulatory and monetary backdrop is not the benign rule of “experts”Ā supposed by regulatory advocates in college textbooks, but rather often the product of raw entrenched political power.Ā Success is getting in sync with the flow of money and political power.Ā The […]
Weekend Read: Imprimis – Inside the Transgender Empire
/in /by Christopher F. RufoThe following is adapted from a talk delivered on September 12, 2023, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdaleās Washington, D.C., campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. The transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere. Most publicly, activist teachers are using classrooms to […]
Weekend Read: Mass Madness at Three [Getting Covid Right]
/in /by Helen AndrewsAs the narrative of the Covid era settles, it looks as if we are intent on forgetting what actually happened and who was responsible. Pandemics have a way of falling out of historical memory. President George W. Bush read historian John Barryās book The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Plague in HistoryĀ over […]
The Rise of Pharma Fascism and the Ruination of the Commons
/in /by Toby RogersI. When the commons was Eden The commonsā is a foundational idea in left political philosophy. The commons refers to shared spaces ā oceans, lakes, rivers, forests, the air ā that are not owned by anyone. It can also refer to cultural spaces ā the town square for example. I could make a case that […]
Weekend Read: The Harsh Realities Of Single Parenting
/in /by Terri MarcroftEditors’ Note: The following essay is the second of three by Terri Marcroft. We refer you to her first essay published in September in The Prickly Pear: Weekend Read: How Abortion Hurts Women. The issue of single mothers and fatherless children is a major cause of poor outcome for millions of children and the following […]
Donāt Believe Your Lying Eyes
/in /by Bobby Anne Flower CoxIf you have not yet read the book 1984Ā by George Orwell, you absolutely must. I loathed that novel when I read it as a teen, because I hated the entire idea of an authoritarian government controlling its people so deftly. The dystopian world it described was just so depressing, so wrong, from the first page […]
The White Houseās “Misinformation” Pressure Campaign Was Unconstitutional
/in /by Aaron KheriatyI am one of five private plaintiffs in the landmark free speech case Missouri v. Biden. Earlier this month, the Fifth Circuit Court found that the government āengaged in a years-long pressure campaign designed to ensure that the censorship [on social media] aligned with the governmentās preferred viewpointsā and that āthe platforms, in capitulation to […]
A Noted Physician Advocates COVID Civil Disobedience
/in /by Barry BrownsteinFamously, at the start of his 1849 essay, āOn the Duty of Civil Disobedience,ā Henry David Thoreau observed, āThat government is best which governs least.ā Few policymakers or politicians during COVID were influenced by Thoreau, who also pointed out that āgovernment never furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got of its […]
Hereās How Biden Admin Destroyed Our Immigration Law
/in /by Victor Davis HansonSince early 2021 we have witnessed somewhere between 7 million and 8 million illegal entries across the now-nonexistent southern border of the U.S. The more the border vanished, the more federalĀ immigration lawĀ was rendered inert, and the more Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas spun fantasies that the āborder is secure.ā He is now written off as […]
Top Pro-Life Leaders Slam Trump for Calling Heartbeat Protections for Unborn āTerribleā
/in /by Mary Margaret OlohanFormer President DonaldĀ TrumpĀ is drawing fire from pro-life leaders for describing Floridaās heartbeat protections for the unborn as āterrible.ā āI think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake,ā Trump told NBCās new āMeet the Pressā host, Kristen Welker, in an interview that aired Sunday. The former president was referring to Republican Florida […]
Weekend Read: Populism, Politics, and Markets
/in /by Neland NobelMarkets function within a complex framework of regulatory and central bank influence.Ā This regulatory and monetary backdrop is not the benign rule of “experts”Ā supposed by regulatory advocates in college textbooks, but rather often the product of raw entrenched political power.Ā Success is getting in sync with the flow of money and political power.Ā The […]