Articles by Adam Ellwanger

Price-Fixing in the Marketplace of Ideas

It is essential to recognize that the cost and value of a given idea has nothing to do with its truth...

The Mask Slips: The Colorado Massacre and the “Non-Binary” Con

The media would prefer to forget the whole affair. It’s our job to remind them: again and again....

In Defense of the National Conservative Agenda and Its So-Called 'Authoritarian' Impulse

Conservatives, long attacked by legacy media as 'authoritarian,' are routinely stymied even from wiel...

The Invisible Whiteness of Being: Cultural Appropriation and The Little Mermaid

Something Fishy with The Little Mermaid…...

National(ist) Redemption and NatCon 3: An Interview with Yoram Hazony

Yoram Hazony has had a wild summer. The release of his new book, Conservatism: A Rediscovery has spar...

On the Promise and Peril of an American Christian Nationalism

Over the last few years, the term “Christian Nationalism” has increasingly been used by commentators ...

Indultilization: Childhood, Adulthood, and the Costs of Pandering Affirmation

The social norms that coalesce around the concepts of childhood and adulthood have changed over time....

Parables of the Virtual: ‘Falling Forward into an Unknown Future’ with Google’s Paranoid Android

Google-employed AI ethicist Blake Lemoine made news this month when he leaked a profoundly disturbing...

Debasing Amy: The Acceleration of the Sexual Revolution

This month marks twenty-five years since the theatrical release of Chasing Amy, a romantic tragicomed...

The Scandal of Lent in an Era of Self-Justification

Lent is an annual period of a little more than a month that precedes Easter on the Christian calendar...

The Whims of Affirmative Action: The NFL, the Supreme Court, and Folly of Identity Politics.

In the decision of the 2003 affirmative action case Grutter v. Bollinger, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor...

America is Not a Democracy

This semester, one of my college students proposed an interesting topic for his paper. As a recent im...

Linguistic Weaponry and the Rhetorical Mechanics of “Let’s Go Brandon!”

By now, many readers are aware of the gutsy prank that an Oregonian named Jared Schmeck played on Joe...

NatCon 2 and the Plan To Save America.

It was the last day of the second National Conservatism conference (informally called NatCon2) at the...

The Burning Tower(s).

Reflections on 20 years since 9/11....

The Occupation: Public Protest and the Use of Space.

How American elites co-opt popular demonstrations of discontent....

Space Exploration: Frontier Politics and the Future of Man.

Ownership and territory in the next century....

Fear and Loathing at CPAC.

Doom and debauchery in Dallas....

A Letter to Team USA.

Olympic excellence, American pride, and the performance of virtue....