Jonathan Emerson-Pierce

From communism and atheism to philosophical theism: exploring history, culture, religion, philosophy, science, politics and leadership. RTs ≠ endorsements.

[Jonathan Emerson-Pierce @Logocentrist]

My February 2026 Essay for Public Discourse
"We cannot expect to preserve a liberal democracy until each generation learns to embrace its civic responsibilities." https://t.co/EtnAGysWZI

[Jonathan Emerson-Pierce @Logocentrist]

@terrynewman Translation: "swirl of moral and cultural dissolution."

[Jonathan Emerson-Pierce @Logocentrist]

@nationalpost Most of the moneys our government has promised rely on a highly profitable business sector.

Yet many of the recruited academics will claim to be anti-capitalist.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher confronts a college president over how liberal professors have turned Israel and Western civilization into slurs on campus.

He reminded him that Western civilization gave everyone who is a progressive "the things they should be most proud of."

The president pushed back and said: No, college professors are totally teaching Western civilization = good.

Maher didn’t believe him.

Bill Maher: “Since I have been covering news and especially the Middle East, even before that, Israel was known as an ‘outpost of Western civilization.’”

Michael Roth: “Yes, it was.”

Maher: “And that’s what it was called. That was always a good thing. Now, I don’t think it is. I did an editorial here one night talking about that. The Western civilization, they talk about it like it’s a bad thing. Instead of saying Western civilization is what gave everyone who is a progressive the things they should be most proud of.”

Roth: “And I think that a lot of our students learn just that in class.”

Maher: “The professors are teaching that message? I think they’re learning it from my show. I don’t think the professors are teaching. I really don’t.”

Roth: “I think they are learning it from your show, of course. But the professors watch your show too. Maybe even more often than an 18-year-old.”

Maher: “Do you think I could come on campus and speak and be welcomed?”

Roth: “Welcomed, maybe not, but certainly—”

Maher: “Really?”

Roth: “No, but certainly given a hearing.”

Maher: “I shouldn’t be welcomed? Someone who twice gave the Democrats a million dollars- that’s not enough credentials to come on and be welcomed?”

Roth: “Well, if you came to Wesleyan with a million dollars, I would welcome you with open arms.”

Maher: “Okay. Right. Well, I’m not going to be doing that.”

A 2018 National Association of Scholars study of 51 top-ranked liberal arts colleges found faculty Democrats outnumber Republicans 10.4 to 1. At 39% of those schools, there was NOT A SINGLE registered Republican among full-time professors.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Pink dolphins are among the rarest dolphins in the world

[Today In Socialism @2dayinsocialism]

On August 28th, 1998, a Cuban court sentenced Reynaldo Alfaro García, a member of an opposition party who had criticized reports of prisoners being tortured and called for the release of political prisoners, to three years in prison for "spreading false news".

[Dr. Sheila Nazarian @sheilanazarian]

Progressives and Islamists don’t have much in common aside from hating America. Progressives believe in sexual freedom. Islamists believe women should be controlled. Progressives support LGBTQ rights. Islamists throw gay people off of roofs.

I learned this from Iran, where leftists and students marched alongside the Islamists to bring down the Shah. They thought they were partners in a revolution. Once the Islamists had power, those same leftists were imprisoned, executed, or driven into exile.

By the time you realize the alliance was never real, you’ve already lost your country.

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn @AI_Solzhenitsyn]

“Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.”

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Footage of Tibet floods isn't being shown in China - and we know little about victims there https://t.co/9sdn8hQrVa

[Lindy Li @lindyli]

Democrats think men pretending to be women is the civil rights issue of our time

They think blaming everything on White people is “righteous”

They think saying America deserved 9/11 is “brave”

They’re not just waging war on common sense. They’re waging war on our country

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

In 1972, TV history gave us truly one of the most adorable moments ever broadcast

[The Federalist @FDRLST]

Leftists Will Never Self-Reflect, And They Will Never Apologize For The Horrors They Inflict

https://t.co/QybqCxiObb

[Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey @RelatablewABS]

Ex-Muslim now Christian shares how the Aisha hadith says she was six-years-old when she married Muhammad and nine-years-old when they consummated the marriage.

An iman named Omar Suleiman shared a video explaining how Aisha “matured faster.”

But if you look at the biblical and historical evidence, 600 years before Aisha, Jesus refers to a twelve-year-old girl as “little girl.”

If a 12 year old girl is a child in the first century, then Aisha should’ve been a child even more so according to their logic.

It’s recorded that even Aisha played with dolls because she had not yet hit puberty. Even when the marriage was consummated and they had intercourse, Aisha was still pubescent.

[Jonathan Emerson-Pierce @Logocentrist]

@OldeWorldOrder Given that a particular religious group doesn't like dogs, and says they don't belong in society, is there any wonder?

[The American Mind @theammind]

"The common good" isn't a post-liberal import — it's as American as the Founding itself. Our founders knew it. We forgot.

Daniel J. Mahoney, Senior Research Fellow at Heritage and Contributing Editor at the Claremont Review of Books, traces the idea through Aristotle, Tocqueville, and Jouvenel to show that liberty and the common good were never enemies. https://t.co/NrHBsIRcvy

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

They're not even hiding the fact that they want classrooms to be sites of indoctrination that turn your kids into activists.

This new peer-reviewed article in an education journal says that educators shouldn't merely include "student activism" in the classroom, but should "center" it.

"Failure to do so," the paper argues, "lends itself to ahistorical claims that organizing and learning are at odds."

[The European Conservative @EuroConOfficial]

The Jabaroot group leaked classified information regarding Moroccan security and intelligence personnel as a “gift to Spain” in response to the mass entry of July 30.
https://t.co/cGu5lF8EN3

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

A 108-year-old Catholic church was deliberately burned down in Saint-Simon, New Brunswick.

I’m grateful no one was injured, but this arsonist must face the full force of the law.

More than 100 churches have been burned and vandalized across Canada in the last five years. We must put an end to these evil hate-motivated attacks on our places of worship: https://t.co/uiPAed5dWH

[The Fifth Column 🖐 @wethefifth]

Democratic fundraisers are essentially running old people scams, and certain media institutions don't want you to know about it.

[Jonathan Emerson-Pierce @Logocentrist]

@HumanProgress Market exchange happens globally without producing a common moral framework.

Mutually beneficial exchange often reflects self-interest, not virtue.

Markets are not moral agents. People are.

And every market contains both good and evil actors.

[Conrad Black @ConradMBlack]

Europe remains in profound reluctance to accept the distinction between necessary immigration and swarms of desperate, unassimilable people, flooding in like fifth-century hordes.

Compounding the peril is pitiful capitulation to climate Quixotry, a heavy yoke of stagnation and staggering energy costs. A renaissance is possible, but only with leadership unseen since Thatcher and Kohl.