On Milo's Dangerous

            I have just finished reading Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos. 

            Whether you identify as right, left, center, apolitical, or none of the above, I highly recommend this book if you want to understand any of the following:

               The polarization of America

The threats to traditional American liberal values

Fake news

The culture war

Who was, is, and is not the “alt-right”

The reason for the election of Donald Trump and what George Will doesn’t get about him

What is and isn’t happening on college campuses

Why some gays are not allowed to march in Gay Pride parades

What video gamers have to do with freedom of speech

Who does and doesn’t care about Black lives

Where American values and Sharia conflict

Why feminism became unpopular

Why a Harvard-educated reader of my blog would (wrongly) accuse me of being a bigot-sympathizer

and lots more.

            This book is flamboyant and risqué.  However, Milo is not a racist, sexist, white-supremacist, bigot, or liar, as he has been called. (Many have had to retract under threat of legal action.) The book is filled with facts and sources and analysis and courage, and reading it will have the following effects:

If you’re conservative, it will give you some hope for the younger generation and challenge you not to be boring.

If you’re liberal, it will reinforce your classical liberal values.

If you’re libertarian, it will give you a shot in the arm.

If you’re apolitical, it will wake you to your own self-interest.

If you’re in college, it will show you that you are not alone.

If you’re a parent or an alum or rich, it will help you to decide which colleges you’re willing to pay for or donate to and which not.

If you’re a consumer of NPR, CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, Fox, Facebook, or Twitter, it will shiver your timbers.

And if you’re a leftist who believes in social justice rather than justice, it will invite you to make arguments instead of calling names.

            I don’t say you will or should agree with everything in this book.  But I do say you should read it and know what it really says. Besides, it’s fun.  (And no, I’m not getting paid to write this.)

             Finally, if this blog post makes you want to call me names, you really need to read the book.

Happy Fourth of July!

Happy Fourth of July!

May we all learn to live in peace and harmony under the ideals and principles of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution so that the American experiment in morally responsible self-government will endure.

May we resist the tide of statist Marxist utopianism and identity-politics racism that, through the media, agenda-driven federal judges, the humanities and social science departments of schools at all levels, many labor unions, and forces within the various arms of government, threaten the nation with the tyranny of neo-Puritanical self-righteousness fueled by destructive ideas clothed in wishful thinking.

May we educate our children and youth in the philosophical, religious, moral, and civic traditions that remain the best guides to virtuous life in society.

And may we express our gratitude for the voices of patriots who, at their best, contribute to these good ends, including (in alphabetical order) Larry Arnn, Ann Coulter, Carl DeMaio, Alan Dershowitz, Larry Elder, Jerry Fleischhacker, Sean Hannity, Hugh Hewitt, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, David Horowitz, Laura Ingraham, Andrew Klavan, Charles Krauthammer, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, Camille Paglia, Dennis Prager, Jay Seculo, Ben Shapiro, Thomas Sowell, Mark Steyn, Donald Trump, and Milo Yiannopoulos.