Gratitude is a virtue. It’s moral and it’s healthy. Thanksgiving is a day to practice this virtue, rendering the efforts to rebrand the holiday an attack on thankfulness itself. In times of war and times of peace, there is always reason for pain. That we have a holiday dedicated to gratitude does not invalidate any of these reasons. It soothes…
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Over the past several years, Federalist readers have followed my evolution on Christmas gifts and decorations as well as reorienting my personal “supply chain” more towards makers who share my values and do more satisfying, higher-quality work than available at big retailers. It was a delight just a few weeks ago to visit a local potter to buy some of…
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Like millions of people, I’m a fan of Joe Rogan, which is why I also know it’s pretty easy to make fun of him. If you’ve ever seen the comedian react to Bill Burr’s jokes at his expense, you know Rogan clearly agrees. And that’s a good thing—he’s easy to spoof because he’s completely authentic, which is why people like…
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In a world with pandemics, violent riots, contentions at a global scale, and a personal Dunkirk in every home, there may still be hope and unity found in the least expected places. We may no longer share the basic building blocks of a healthy society, but we still share a love for the new American myths, and that might be…
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Today’s biggest fans of NBC’s “The Office,” were watching cartoons when the show first debuted more than 16 years ago. Most of the Gen Z fans that fuel “The Office’s” cult following were introduced to the series on Netflix, several years after the show came to an end in 2013. Unsurprisingly, young fans lost their minds on Twitter when NBC…
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What do “Blues Clues,” a corporate titan of the pet food and candy industries, literal pedophiles over at Sex Offender Story Hour, and this “gay for pay” Yale professor all have in common? Like so many within our elite institutions, they all share a deep desire to groom your children and see your prepubescent son publicly crossdress. Twix, which is owned…
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This is the text of Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley’s speech on Oct. 31 at the National Conservatism conference, which is running in Florida this year from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2. Good evening. It is a pleasure to be with you tonight. I had the honor to be at your inaugural conference two years ago. After that speech, the Left…
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For nearly a decade, the transgender movement has steamrolled through American society with a façade of certainty and moral superiority no one is allowed to question. Choosing one’s gender has been the brave new frontier our children are entitled to cross, and woe to the parent, doctor, or educator who takes issue. In recent weeks, though, another major crack in…
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During an appearance on the “Pat McAfee Show” on Tuesday, NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers slammed the toxicity of “PC woke culture.” “There’s a PC woke culture that exists,” the Green Bay Packers quarterback told Pat McAfee. “And there’s a cancel culture at the same time, and it’s based on people’s own feelings of maybe personal [misery] or distaste for their…
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Sometimes even New York Times columnists tell the truth. For instance, a recent article by Jennifer Finney Boylan was headlined “Abortion Rights and Trans Rights Are Two Sides of the Same Coin.” Yes, and the coin is currency from Hell. Although there are abortion supporters who oppose transgenderism and vice versa, Boylan is correct that the justifications for abortion and transgenderism…
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Surprise: Superman is gay! For National Coming Out Day on Monday, DC Comics officially announced Superman will no longer be a “white savior.” Instead, Supes is now a bisexual hero and proud activist for causes like open borders and ending climate change. Yes, they turned Superman gay. Just not the Superman you are thinking of. Not Clark Kent, but his…
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The Federalist Publisher Ben Domenech hosted Ryan Holiday, author and host of “The Daily Stoic,” on Fox News’s “The Ben Domenech Podcast” on Monday. Holiday discussed his newest book “Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave,” and how the virtue of courage plays into questions of politics and culture today. Holiday is writing on each of four stoic virtues: courage,…
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A woman named Emma Sarley lost her job this week after a brief run-in with a man named Frederick Joseph in a Brooklyn dog park. Sarley’s offense was not immediately clear. The allegation, made by Joseph, was that she mistook him for someone else with a loud dog, and told Joseph and his fiancé to “stay in our ‘hood’.” The…
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Fall is here and Halloween just more than a month away, which means we’re less than a month away from the self-righteous reminders to parents that they dare not let their children dress up as American Indians or any culturally diverse Disney character (although it remains to be seen how an American child dressing up as an islander princess is…
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the former duke and duchess of Sussex, have taken America by storm. Their arrival on our shores is reminiscent of the British invasion in the 1960s. Except, instead of selling music, Harry and Meghan are here to sell us their ideas and personas. They haven’t just quit working for the royal family, they found a…
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Youth is essentially an exercise in observing, doing, and saying stupid stuff. From this rich soil presumably grows wisdom. This phenomenon is well and good, turning dunderheaded frat boys into respectable church deacons. However, one recent trend among the “yoot,” as my Cousin Vinnie would put it, is the compulsion to refer to one another as “queens.” It is with…
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On Labor Day, a local ABC News affiliate in Alabama published the dejected headline “Jobless Americans have few options as benefits expire” with what we could only wish was a tongue-in-cheek photo of a giant, all-caps “NOW HIRING” sign. The post garnered deserved mockery on Twitter, pointing out that businesses desperate to hire workers offer a straightforward option to many jobless…
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Will we have to leave? That’s the question I keep asking myself about my native Northern Virginia, given that those calling the shots here do not seem to like or want people like me and my family. As my friend Joy Pullmann has noted, there are many benefits to leaving the increasingly blue suburbs for flyover country: more conservative- and…
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If America is as innately evil as some of our educators and “anti-racism” trainers say it is, then what business do we have being in Afghanistan, or anywhere else, for that matter? A nation that preaches these things flirts with the type of debacle we are seeing in Afghanistan. Maybe there is a silver lining to the national humiliation that…
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The American people are growing rightly skeptical of what they are told. For the past two years, they’ve faced an onslaught of lies and misinformation that has left them with little faith in our institutions — from Congress to the White House and even within the Christian church. A sermon I heard years ago should have opened my eyes to…
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