Deaths of despair are related to questions of meaning and the psychological conditions for social malaise.
Scott Yenor
No strictly political community brings political salvation.
Products of the old education would have cheeks that burn red when the country was disrespected. Today’s students only blush at their own "privilege."
No stable common ground has been found with the Left as they march through our institutions creating new, ever more radical and unhealthy ones.
Dostovesky suggests an appeal to the nation untouched with a concern for eternity itself will prove insufficient to defeat ideology.
What goes into one’s body can sometimes be an object for public concern; the question is when and how.
There is no guarantee that science, technology, liberal democracy, commercial greatness, or military strength will go on much longer in a liberal regime.
The best arguments against deregulating obscenity were made at the most crucial time of policy change; but few ears heard them.
A transpartisan consensus is forming around the importance of families to individual well-being, and the importance of genuine education to self-government.
Communities may restrain liberty. These social features of human nature are as much a part of our mental furniture as the love of liberty—perhaps more so.
Scott Yenor offers a first-hand account of Boise State's transformation from a bastion of the liberal arts to a social justice university.
Scott Yenor is a professor of political science at Boise State University. His The Recovery of Family Life: Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologies is forthcoming from Baylor University Press.