Dr. Douglas Young

Dr. Douglas Young is a political science professor emeritus who taught government and history for over 33 years and whose essays, poems, and short stories have appeared in a variety of publications in America, Canada, and Europe. His first novel, Deep in the Forest, was published in 2021 and the second, Due South, came out in 2022. His latest book is This Little Opinion Plus $1.50 Will Buy You a Coke: A Collection of Essays.

Is Football Worth All its Health Problems?

Culture

Football season has arrived in the U.S. But do fans who financially support the sport bear any responsibility for the fearsome health toll endured by far too many of the ...

This Precarious Life

Libertarianism

In the wake of the near assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally, a large number of Americans have wondered if he survived solely “by the grace ...

Do Most Americans Truly Believe in God?

Christian Worldview

Do most Americans still believe in God? Though polls continue to show most of us say we do, they also reveal far fewer claim to than ever before, and substantially ...

Wittily Conflicted: A Review of Bill Maher’s What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

Book Reviews

Bill Maher has been a major political humorist for over thirty years. After a number of guest spots on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher ran on ...

Savvy and Witty: A Review of Jimmy Failla’s Cancel Culture Dictionary

Book Reviews

Jimmy Failla’s Cancel Culture Dictionary: An A to Z Guide to Winning the War on Fun is a remarkably well-reasoned, witty, and surprisingly serious takedown of cancel culture. The book ...

Wrestling the Culture Wars: A Book Review of Tyrus’s Nuff Said

Book Reviews

Nuff Said is the second book by Tyrus (George Murdoch), the professional wrestler, actor, and witty regular on the Gutfeld! late night show. While his first book, 2022’s Just Tyrus: ...

Why the Rise of Jew Hatred and the Support for Hamas Terrorists?

Libertarianism

A lot of folks are shocked and mystified by all the recent open displays of hatred and even violence toward Jews on many elite American university campuses and the streets ...

A Review of Greg Gutfeld’s The King of Late Night  

The Triumph of a Libertarian Comic: A Review of Greg Gutfeld’s The King of Late Night

Book Reviews

Political comedian Greg Gutfeld’s new eighth book, The King of Late Night, explores what he sees as many recent U.S. cultural “flips” helping his TV show, Gutfeld!, trounce its late-night ...

Portrait of a Major Media Rebel: A Review of Tucker by Chadwick Moore

Portrait of a Major Media Rebel: A Review of Tucker by Chadwick Moore

Book Reviews

Tucker is Chadwick Moore’s fascinating and highly readable new biography of the most consequential conservative populist media icon since talk radio king Rush Limbaugh. For the last several years on ...

Comedy is a serious subject: A book review of Kat Timpf

Comedy is a serious subject: A book review of Kat Timpf

Libertarianism

Comedienne and libertarian commentator Kat Timpf’s first book is a serious examination of comedy that challenges many well-intentioned but mistaken myths about social taboos. A regular on TV’s Gutfeld! and ...

Censorship, Elon Musk, and Twitter

Free Speech: Censorship, Elon Musk, and Twitter

Culture

Elon Musk has completed a private acquisition of Twitter, promising to unshackle what’s supposed to be a free speech forum from the chains of progressive ruling-class censorship. This is a ...

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Oppressive Moralism of Secular Political Fanatics

Culture

There are loads of obsessives today: folks fixated on their phone, TV, sports, race, sex, etc. But the only ones labeled “fanatics” by secular media are religious. And, Lord knows, ...

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Free to Decide: Who’s Really Pro-Choice?

Politics

A free society gives people the freedom to make choices, good and bad, within the law, so long as we do not violate the property rights of others. Now many ...

Putting Students First

Culture

Recent disturbing trends have harmed students across the country. Indeed, on too many campuses there is an obsession with homogenization, bureaucratization, research, and money.

What will prevent mass shootings?

Culture

This guest post was written by Dr. Douglas Young. To prevent more mass shootings, many demand more gun control laws. But do these laws prevent such massacres or address their ...

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