Christopher DeGroot
Takimag.com
Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Past articles by Christopher:
Big Tech Protects Joe Biden
What is so galling about Big Tech is its hypocrisy. → Read More
Yelp Goes Woke on “Racism”
Meanwhile, the left, thanks to Yelp, has another tool for smearing people and ruining their lives. → Read More
Seattle’s Leftist Dystopia
Mainstream media reports have focused on the “block party” atmosphere of the occupation, repeating a talking point from the Seattle mayor. → Read More
Understanding the Far-Left Threat
A police chief in Bellevue, Wash., which was hit by looting and violence Sunday night, said he thinks the people responsible were organized, from out of town, and being paid. → Read More
Individual Liberty Versus the State
In a heartening sign, a number of counties in Pennsylvania have chosen to defy Gov. Tom Wolf’s shutdown order. → Read More
An Experiment in Social Order
There has always been some disorganized lower class—we used to call it skid row. → Read More
Coronavirus and Social Unrest
Do you have it within you to make your life worth living despite the hard corona days? → Read More
Time to Rethink Education
the left, which controls education, shouldn’t be expected to support, let alone advocate, alternatives to public education. → Read More
The Steady March of Liberal Hypocrisy
And as always with the left, the actual aim is not equality or any other actual good, but sheer power. → Read More
A Reaffirmation of Hierarchy
If we think that everyone has intrinsic worth, then that worth remains even if we want to make a judgment concerning his value in a certain respect, or a judgment concerning his ultimate value. → Read More
Coronavirus Kookiness
Indeed, it doesn’t seem unfair to say that for some of us, pleasure is not just an agreeable diversion, but the very point of life itself. → Read More
Liberated for Loneliness
Real love is put to the test, and it would be good for our country if more of us would learn this vital truth. → Read More
An Age of Weak Men
Although weak men seem to be more common on the left than on the right, there are still plenty on the latter. → Read More
Taking Diversity Seriously
In sum, equality is not only an illusion. It is also an evil, because it levels people down—replacing just rank with a false sameness—and allows envy and ingratitude to prevail where honor and reverence are in order. → Read More
Life Without Intellectual Principle: Part One
For what the leftist project entails, among other things, is an erroneous commitment to social constructivism. Everybody is entirely a product of his environment, according to this doctrine. There are no innate or natural differences between the sexes and racial groups; we’re all just social constructs all the way down. → Read More
Limousine Liberals
Whatever they may think about themselves, Wax’s critics at Penn are not doing blacks or anyone else whom they regard as members of “victim groups” any favors. → Read More
Two Cheers for Rusty Reno, Rod Dreher, and Other National Sages
Dreher’s singular focus on the failings of the Church represents quite a departure from the intended focus of his current home, The American Conservative, a magazine founded to promote the paleoconservatism embraced by its founders Pat Buchanan, Taki Theodoracopulos, and Scott McConnell, and specifically to oppose the Iraq War. → Read More
Hacks and Charlatans
To be sure, these are sensitive issues, but they’re no less empirical than physics itself, and instead of constantly whining about “their oppression,” blacks, Hispanics, women, and others who see themselves as victims need to try to perform better. → Read More
How Intellectuals and “Experts” Undermine Moral Agency
Most addicts eventually quit, and they typically do so in response to the negative effects of drug abuse. → Read More
Pesky Reality Catches Up to the Left
All racial groups, like all individuals, exhibit certain negative behaviors, but changing things for the better is unlikely to happen if it’s assumed to be hateful or “racist” to notice disparities in these negative behaviors, which exist whether we like them or not. → Read More