The End of the News

by John Waters

The old-style newspaper used to behave honorably; now, it has become a branch of the entertainment industry.  Continue Reading »

2 Sep 2019

Mac Donald, Peterson,
Paglia . . . the New Sources

by Mark Bauerlein

In an era of fake news, Americans are increasingly turning to anti-Establishment commentators.  Continue Reading »

29 Jan 2018

The Discipline of Truth-Telling

by Dan Hitchens

Samuel Johnson understood that a society without truth—a society of “fake news”—would inevitably collapse. Continue Reading »

8 Jan 2018

Why the News Makes Us Dumb

by C. John Sommerville

Strange as it may seem in a country positively flooded with the commodity, we don’t always understand what News is. News is what has happened since yesterday’s paper or broadcast. It is that daily budget of information that a person needs in order to be “informed,” to feel tuned in . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 1991