Michael Knowles

Former president Barack Obama took Presidents Day as an opportunity to burnish his lame legacy by claiming credit for his successor’s booming economy. “Eleven years ago today, near the bottom of the worst recession in generations,” tweeted Obama, “I signed the Recovery Act, paving the way for more than a decade of economic growth and ...

As the Biden administration ‘speeds up’ efforts to replace Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the twenty-dollar bill, many conservatives are celebrating the swap. The founder of the Democrat Party replaced by a gun-toting Republican? The libs get owned again, these Republicans muse. But if the Tubman twenty is such a win for conservatives, why ...

It is high time we cancel “cancel culture” — if not the phenomenon then at least the slogan, which has engendered tedious and dishonest debates that fail even to address the issue that those two words describe. Such debates begin when someone makes a comment that offends leftist sensibilities. The offender may be a public ...

Chris Harrison thought he could reason with the mob. When leftist activists attacked Bachelor contestant Rachel Kirkconnell for having attended an Antebellum-themed party in college several years earlier, the longtime host defended the young woman against the campaign to smear her. During an interview on Extra, Harrison averred, “We all need to have a little grace, a little ...

On February 2, 1983, Ronald Reagan welcomed the Afghan mujahideen to the Oval Office. The mujahideen — literally “those who wage jihad” — were seeking support against the Soviets, who had invaded Afghanistan four years earlier. The enemy of our enemy was our friend, and the United States continued to support the Afghan “freedom fighters” throughout the ...

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Just when you thought it was safe to live your life again, a new coronavirus variant has emerged. “Omicron,” the fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet and thirteenth iteration of COVID-19, which conspicuously skipped over the letter “Xi”, threatens to keep us all locked down just a little bit longer to “slow the spread” and ...

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Hunter Biden, the First Son who documented terabytes worth of his own crimes across at least five genres of offense on at least three continents, has finally been indicted. Has hell frozen over? Are pigs flying? No. It’s a limited hangout — business as usual. Prosecutors have not charged Hunter with tax fraud, a crime ...

Adapted from “The Michael Knowles Show,” September 18, 2023. Did you know most men think of the Roman Empire every single day? This fact has gone viral over the last week because a woman on TikTok asked her husband if he thinks of the Roman Empire daily, and he said, yes, he does. When I saw ...

This is a portion of a speech delivered by Michael Knowles at Georgetown University on Tuesday, September 26, 2023. There is a crucial fact about liberty, a fact at odds with our mistaken, modern, liberal notions of what liberty is. Modern liberal culture tells us that liberty is the right to choose. This is how ...

This is a portion of a speech delivered by Michael Knowles at Vanderbilt University on Tuesday, November 28, 2023. The activist Left — from Hollywood to the newsrooms and especially on campus — has spent nearly two months smearing all of history’s victors as “colonizers” and “settlers.” The reason for this uptick in “anti-colonial” activism ...

This is a portion of a speech delivered by Michael Knowles at Clemson University on Wednesday, December 6, 2023. Kids are not commodities to be bought and sold. People are not property and children have rights. This issue has come up recently because same-sex couples have begun to purchase children through surrogacy and in vitro ...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is in full swing as liberal elites from all over the world travel to the wealthy and difficult-to-access Swiss mountain town of Davos to hobnob, enrich themselves, and conspire to control all of our lives. If that doesn’t sound cartoonishly villainous enough, the wealthy elites decided to kick things up ...

This is a portion of a speech delivered by Michael Knowles at CPAC on Thursday, February 22, 2024. America is experiencing an identity crisis. I think everyone can agree, we no longer know who we are. Lots of little errors have led to our present identity crisis — the most obvious being that we no ...

This is a portion of a speech delivered by Michael Knowles at CPAC on Thursday, February 22, 2024. The decline of religion in America has eroded our identity at every level — from national politics all the way down to the basic unit of society: the family. Marriage, after all, is nothing other than a symbol of God’s love ...

Adapted from “The Michael Knowles Show,” March 6, 2023. There is a wild card in the presidential race, and that wild card is Bobby Kennedy Jr. — commonly known as, RFK. His father ran for president in 1968 and was assassinated while running, and his uncle was President John F. Kennedy, who was also assassinated. ...

Adapted from “The Michael Knowles Show,” March 25, 2024. Over the past few weeks, there has been a major tabloid scandal involving Catherine, Princess of Wales, who has been missing since January. The future queen of England, Prince William’s wife, had abdominal surgery at the beginning of the year, but then, she basically just disappeared. ...

This is the first part of a speech delivered by Michael Knowles at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. For most of American history, the intentional killing of unborn babies was illegal. From the colonial period through the middle of the nineteenth century, when abortion was surgically impossible and chemically dubious, it ...

This is the second part of a speech delivered by Michael Knowles at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. Having examined and refuted the historical, legal, constitutional, and anthropological arguments for abortion — having cleared away all the muck that obscures the abortion debate — the final question remains: Is it moral? ...