Robert Knight

Kicking off more contempt for America

What is it with our ruling elites? How did they come to have so much disdain for America? Some recent events have yet again brought this unfortunate situation to the surface.

September 9, 2018

As Democrats move left, they must replace the American electorate

The "progressives"' game plan to re-acquire power in Washington and make it permanent has been shockingly obvious for some time:

September 2, 2018

With Nov. 6 approaching, times are tense and the stakes are high

Last week, a full-page opinion column in the Loudoun Times-Mirror, a weekly newspaper in Northern Virginia, actually had this five-column headline, caps included:

August 26, 2018

Chasing alternative reality

The American left has so many people vying to be the Alternative Reality poster child that it may be difficult to pick a winner.

August 19, 2018

Liberal claims to the moral high ground

The progressive left is in a panic over the Senate's coming confirmation vote on President Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.

August 12, 2018

Public scapegoating about tweets and emails of yore happen daily

During the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, Chinese communist dictator Mao Zedong's Red Guards marched people through the streets in large dunce caps. The victims had said or done something outside the canon of Chinese Marxism.

August 5, 2018

On the run at UVa

If Thomas Jefferson were to step out of a time machine at the University of Virginia, how would he react to the 21st-century version of his beloved creation?

July 29, 2018

The predictability of Barack Obama

Last Tuesday in South Africa, Barack Obama gave a speech with some lines right out of a Donald Trump stemwinder.

July 22, 2018

Living in revolutionary times

Over the weekend, in addition to being in the World Cup soccer final against tiny Croatia, France got to celebrate Bastille Day, which commemorates the July 14, 1789, storming of the infamous Paris prison.

July 15, 2018

Liberals wrapped in hysteria hurtle toward a doomsday of their own making

Looking at the current political and cultural climate in Washington, D.C., you might get the idea that the ruling class is in the midst of a conniption. Even the walls of the National Cathedral are vibrating with weirdness — more about that later.

July 8, 2018

Supreme Court delivers on Trump’s promises to restore the law

Remember when President Trump said we were going to win so much that we are going to get tired of it?

July 1, 2018

If mass shootings do not qualify as markers of mental illness, the definition needs work

The mental health industry isn't what it used to be, although there are plenty of brilliant and compassionate analysts and counselors who help lots of people.

June 24, 2018

Trend lines link child-marketed video violence with the real thing

It's apparently not enough to corrupt children by selling them moral relativism.

June 17, 2018

Animus toward country and free market capitalism begins in elementary school

Since November 2016, the deep state and its media allies have spent considerable time and money cultivating animus toward President Trump and the Republican-led Congress among younger voters.

June 10, 2018

Free speech is drowning on both sides of the Atlantic

Years ago, sitting in an English pub on July Fourth, my brother and I were surrounded by friendly Brits who toasted America's Independence Day. Expressing no bitterness over their former colonies' rebellion more than 200 years ago, they even jokingly joined in a chorus of "Down with the British!"

June 3, 2018

No handy tool for gender-bending

The culture war reached into the quiet Washington, D.C., exurban town of Purcellville, Va. last week.

May 27, 2018

Uneducated leftists discount the fate of Kellogg’s in Venezuela

In the United States, surveys show that many millennials are not merely soft on socialism but openly support it. They think capitalism benefits only the "1 percent" and no one else, despite America's matchless record of upward mobility and prosperity.

May 20, 2018