Unlicensed Punditry

Karmelo Anthony was found guilty of murder. And even though the “only good cracker is a dead cracker” chorus immediately cast the case as just another example of white unfair “white” jurisprudence putting down the black man, it was not because Anthony is a black teenager and four hundred years ago black Africans were enslaved and shipped to the Western Hemisphere as chattel to satisfy a rapidly growing need for labor. Anthony was found guilty because he was guilty.

There is an old rule of politics that deserves to be carved in granite above every newsroom, faculty lounge, and activist headquarters in the Western world: never let facts get in the way of a perfectly good narrative. If recent years have taught us anything, it is that many of our institutions have become less interested in discovering the truth than in selecting it. Increasingly, events are not examined to determine what happened.

Several things brought this train of thought into the station: I had a little back and forth with a friendly, but terribly misinformed, trollette who argued for contemporary “traditions” supporting her positions while ignoring 2000 years of Christian tradition that didn’t, contrasted against Gad Saad’s commentary about the societal impact of Christianity (that moderated interpersonal violence), contemporary videos on X of “migrants” randomly sucker-punching white women on the street, and an...

Interesting to watch Democrats take both sides of arguments. For example, when they make arguments for and against gerrymandering at the same time (good when they do it, bad when someone else does) and the same when it comes to free speech (our speech is protected, yours is disinformation and violence, so not protected), you begin to understand how a political party that has come to be built on radical, irrational positions can survive.

Perhaps too many have always held a pollyannaish view and American politics really have always been a purely Machiavellian enterprise. Perhaps contemporary American politics and the 15th century Courts of Europe truly are distinctions without a difference.

Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland – if you are not following her, you are missing out) posted a tweet on April 18, 2026, expressing concern over how much people obsess over prospective SCOTUS vacancies/appointments (i.e., who might get appointed next), and using that to argue it shows how far the judiciary has strayed into legislating from the bench—essentially becoming a ruling force rather than one that simply applies laws made by others.

I just paid $3.79 per gallon for regular gas to fill up my truck. Two months ago, that was $2.49 per gallon.

Let’s talk about Iran. More importantly, let us speak of the world’s approach to Iran for the past 50 years — and speak of it in an analogy that even a bureaucrat or politician can understand. Let us assume you have a responsibility to rear — or participate in rearing — a child.

Victor Davis Hanson is my spirit animal and who I want to be when I grow up—even as my wife points out, at my age, I’m running out of time for that to happen. In an article and video from his Daily Signal perch, VDH described the modern Democrat Party as a “socialist revolutionary party,” and there is something to that diagnosis, but it seems to me to not quite go far enough. Socialism, even in its more aggressive forms, still pretends to operate within a stable framework of ideas.

To collectivists, tax policy is the same as communism. These policies never produce the results they promise because they never are implemented correctly and will certainly, maybe, work this time when they are in power.