by William Kilpatrick | Jul 28, 2020
In case you hadn’t noticed, a new fundamentalist religion has been born in the streets of America. It’s the religion of Woke—the religion of people who believe they have been given a special revelation about the nature of society. They have discovered that...
by William Kilpatrick | Jul 20, 2020
You’ve probably seen Ami Horowitz doing one of his “man-on-the-street” interviews on television. In a recent one, he asked passersby to sign a petition to take down a statue of Washington because “he was a slave owner.” All were happy to sign. He...
by William Kilpatrick | Jul 14, 2020
The first step on the way to solving a problem is to understand what the problem is. Consequently, we can’t look to America’s bishops to offer solutions to our nation’s most pressing problem because most of them simply don’t get it. The biggest problem we currently...
by William Kilpatrick | Jun 29, 2020
The most striking thing about the killing of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta was that up until the moment the police officer was about to place a cuff on his left hand, Brooks had been obeying police instructions and conversing pleasantly with them. Then, suddenly, he...
by William Kilpatrick | Jun 22, 2020
The current chaos in the streets can be seen as a spontaneous outburst of pent-up anger, or it can be seen as the result of a long campaign to engender anger by cultivating narratives of bigotry and victimhood. It’s important to understand that the recent and...
