Brandeis University historian David Hackett Fischer’s African Founders illuminates the leading controversies today with facts that shame political cant and enable us to reassess the centuries of slavery’s effects on American national character. In a scholarly tome of over 900 pages, Fischer follows the method of his earlier work, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America. There he traced […]
https://thepricklypear.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Ken Masugihttps://thepricklypear.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngKen Masugi2023-11-20 00:26:502023-11-18 07:42:14A Historian Complicates the Racial Divide
A bottom-up libertarian localism that rejects federal funding and resists centralized control is the only viable way to defeat the totalitarian left and to restore the American republic Two political, economic, and cultural movements are vying for the soul of America. One is a program from above, and the other, a movement from below. But […]
A planned speech from recently-censured U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus has been canceled by the school. An ASU spokesperson told The Center Square Friday morning that Tlaib’s speech would not happen on school grounds, saying the groups organizing the event didn’t follow proper channels. “Organizers of events using ASU facilities […]
The Great Depression was the most significant macroeconomic event of the past century, but don’t expect to find an accurate portrayal of its causes in your college history classroom. The most commonly assigned college-level US history textbooks contain obsolete and economically erroneous explanations of the 1929 stock market crash and its aftermath. In a new […]
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Editors’ Note: At The Prickly Pear, we often run as many as ten fresh videos a day. We think all of them are important or we would not select them. But as with most things, some videos are more important, and more eloquent, than others. With so little time, and so much to read or […]
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In a speech following 9/11, President Bush assured us that in spite of this terrorist attack, all humans deep in their hearts long for freedom and brotherhood. It’s a comforting sentiment, but it’s not true. Radical Islamists openly proclaim their disdain for freedom as another decadent Western value. Iranian street crowds commonly chant “Death to […]
https://thepricklypear.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Thomas C. Pattersonhttps://thepricklypear.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngThomas C. Patterson2023-11-14 00:30:282024-01-17 10:22:18Americans Should Take Islamism Very Seriously
The 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (colloquially referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics) was awarded to economist Claudia Goldin. To preface this article, I don’t believe there should be a Nobel Prize in economics, as I’ve pointed out before. My reasoning on this is in line […]
https://thepricklypear.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Peter Jacobsenhttps://thepricklypear.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngPeter Jacobsen2023-11-14 00:26:442023-11-12 08:18:31A Nobel for a Student of Civilization
This crisis is nothing new. From Sydney to London to untold numbers of American college campuses, we hear incendiary cries for destroying the Jewish state, for a new Jihad or Holy War, all in the name of an ostensibly noble and just “anti-colonialist” struggle. Tens of thousands march in major European cities, and with frenzied […]
https://thepricklypear.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Daniel J. Mahoneyhttps://thepricklypear.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngDaniel J. Mahoney2023-11-13 00:30:032023-11-11 11:19:30The Crisis of the West Revisited: Self-Flagellation and the Great Liberal Death Wish
The real Covid scandal is emerging right in front of the inquiry’s nose, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph: Britain could have escaped the horrors of lockdown, but nobody pulled apart the doom models driving it. Here’s an excerpt. Let’s go back to when much of the world had copied the Wuhan lockdown, with two major […]
The following is adapted from a talk delivered on September 12, 2023, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C., campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. The transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere. Most publicly, activist teachers are using classrooms to […]
https://thepricklypear.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Christopher F. Rufohttps://thepricklypear.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngChristopher F. Rufo2023-11-11 00:27:572023-11-11 08:06:54Weekend Read: Imprimis – Inside the Transgender Empire
A Historian Complicates the Racial Divide
/in /by Ken MasugiBrandeis University historian David Hackett Fischer’s African Founders illuminates the leading controversies today with facts that shame political cant and enable us to reassess the centuries of slavery’s effects on American national character. In a scholarly tome of over 900 pages, Fischer follows the method of his earlier work, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America. There he traced […]
The Two Nations
/in /by Michael RectenwaldA bottom-up libertarian localism that rejects federal funding and resists centralized control is the only viable way to defeat the totalitarian left and to restore the American republic Two political, economic, and cultural movements are vying for the soul of America. One is a program from above, and the other, a movement from below. But […]
Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Planned Speech at ASU Canceled
/in /by Cole LauterbachA planned speech from recently-censured U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus has been canceled by the school. An ASU spokesperson told The Center Square Friday morning that Tlaib’s speech would not happen on school grounds, saying the groups organizing the event didn’t follow proper channels. “Organizers of events using ASU facilities […]
College History Textbooks Spread Misinformation About the Great Depression
/in /by Phillip W. MagnessThe Great Depression was the most significant macroeconomic event of the past century, but don’t expect to find an accurate portrayal of its causes in your college history classroom. The most commonly assigned college-level US history textbooks contain obsolete and economically erroneous explanations of the 1929 stock market crash and its aftermath. In a new […]
IMPORTANT VIDEO: The Last Line of Defense
/in /by The EditorsEditors’ Note: At The Prickly Pear, we often run as many as ten fresh videos a day. We think all of them are important or we would not select them. But as with most things, some videos are more important, and more eloquent, than others. With so little time, and so much to read or […]
Americans Should Take Islamism Very Seriously
/in /by Thomas C. PattersonIn a speech following 9/11, President Bush assured us that in spite of this terrorist attack, all humans deep in their hearts long for freedom and brotherhood. It’s a comforting sentiment, but it’s not true. Radical Islamists openly proclaim their disdain for freedom as another decadent Western value. Iranian street crowds commonly chant “Death to […]
A Nobel for a Student of Civilization
/in /by Peter JacobsenThe 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (colloquially referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics) was awarded to economist Claudia Goldin. To preface this article, I don’t believe there should be a Nobel Prize in economics, as I’ve pointed out before. My reasoning on this is in line […]
The Crisis of the West Revisited: Self-Flagellation and the Great Liberal Death Wish
/in /by Daniel J. MahoneyThis crisis is nothing new. From Sydney to London to untold numbers of American college campuses, we hear incendiary cries for destroying the Jewish state, for a new Jihad or Holy War, all in the name of an ostensibly noble and just “anti-colonialist” struggle. Tens of thousands march in major European cities, and with frenzied […]
The Real Scandal: Covid Inquiry’s Failure
/in /by Will JonesThe real Covid scandal is emerging right in front of the inquiry’s nose, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph: Britain could have escaped the horrors of lockdown, but nobody pulled apart the doom models driving it. Here’s an excerpt. Let’s go back to when much of the world had copied the Wuhan lockdown, with two major […]
Weekend Read: Imprimis – Inside the Transgender Empire
/in /by Christopher F. RufoThe following is adapted from a talk delivered on September 12, 2023, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C., campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. The transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere. Most publicly, activist teachers are using classrooms to […]