The Mother of Big Lies
“Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?”
Bruce Thornton
Bruce S. Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, an emeritus professor of classics and humanities at California State University, Fresno, and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His latest book is Democracy’s Dangers and Discontents: The Tyranny of the Majority from the Greeks to Obama.
Recent Articles:
Concentrating the Enemy’s Mind
“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
What Was Missing from the Debate
Clashing personalities and verbal jousting aren’t enough.
Why Are We Shocked by Dems’ Cruelty to Joe Biden?
How the inhumanity of the “woke” Left became an institutionalized feature of the Democrat Party.
Progressive Technocracy, Infantilism, and the Problem of the West
An interview with Freedom Center Shillman Fellow and historian Bruce Thornton.
A Half-Century of Appeasing Iran
The suicidal cost of blinding ourselves to the Mullahs’ true world view.
The Globalist Perversion of Justice
Agendas over principles.
Squabbling Congresswomen Are Not the Problem
Signs of Madison’s Constitutional guardrail that “ambition must be made to counter ambition.”
A Landmark on the Road to Decline
What the Biden regime and its political operators don’t consider.
Stop Negotiating With Wolves
The consequences of not learning from history and tradition.
America’s Poisonous Antiwar Protests
Have we moved the doomsday clock to the brink of midnight?
Israel and the Decline of the West
Don’t think our enemies haven’t noticed our civilizational failure of nerve.
Our ‘Woke’ Rackets
We know who will pay the bill.
Unfriendly Fire
Only Israel faces impossible standards for conducting war.
This Election Year’s Tournament of Narratives
What matters when making our choice in November.
Potemkin Feminism
Imposters betraying women.
The Civilizational Masochism of the West
We are swiftly approaching the consequences of our suicidal blindness.
Munich Redux
Why, exactly, would the Mullahs change their behavior?
Comedy Dies in Woke Darkness
“Free men have free tongues.”
Truth is More Important Than Civility
Dartmouth University President Sian Beiloc takes a stand for “brave spaces”.
Let’s Stop Fetishizing Article 5
The dire danger of putting the interests of the “global community” ahead of the voters’.
Still Not Learning From History
Bad ideas and practices that we have witnessed over and over again.
The U.N.’s Long History of Failure
The “cockpit in the tower of Babel.”
The Incredible Denseness of the Academic Mind
Our institutions of higher learning have degenerated into satiric parodies.
‘People of Color’ are ‘Mascots’ for the Global Elites
It’s all about class status and superiority.