About Mark Tapson

Mark Tapson is a writer, screenwriter, culture critic, and political commentator. The Shillman Fellow on Popular Culture for the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Mark has written nearly a thousand articles about the intersection of culture and politics for FrontPage Magazine, Acculturated, Intellectual Takeout, Breitbart, Time, The Federalist, National Review, The New Criterion, and elsewhere. Mark has appeared on CNN, Glenn Beck, and other TV and internet outlets to discuss culture and politics, as well as making many radio and public appearances. He has also been interviewed about his political conversion in the documentary Blocking the Path to 9/11, and about the crisis of masculinity in the Doc Emet Productions documentary The Fight of Our Lives. For the Freedom Center, Mark has appeared on or led many panel discussions on topics ranging from cultural Marxism to religious liberty to Islamic terrorism. And he has interviewed notable figures, before live audiences, such as defense attorney Alan Dershowitz, Clinton prosecutor Kenneth Starr, Benghazi warrior Mark “Oz” Geist, historian Ron Radosh, award-winning author Lela Gilbert, and conservative intellectual David Horowitz. As a screenwriter, among the numerous films Mark has worked on are the controversial ABC miniseries The Path to 9/11 and the award-winning documentary Jihad in America: The Grand Deception, co-written with terrorism expert Steven Emerson of the Investigative Project on Terrorism. He is currently adapting Peter Schweizer and Caspar Weinberger’s book The Next War for the big screen. Mark is also the author of a forthcoming book on chivalry and the war on masculinity from Templeton Press.
Mark Tapson

Mark Tapson

The Global Intifada Heats Up: A War on Jews is a War on Civilization

2024-11-13T13:05:55-05:00November 13, 2024|

On the night of November 7, curiously only two days shy of the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Europe was the scene of a fresh pogrom in which hundreds of antisemites targeted Jews for pre-meditated, coordinated violence in the streets of Amsterdam.  Groups of attackers – many of them [...]

Mark Tapson

Mark Tapson

THE CAMPUS INTIFADAS ARE NOT ANTI-WAR PROTESTS

2024-05-07T13:12:40-05:00May 7, 2024|

In the February Deep Dive blog I wrote about the seemingly strange bedfellows of the red-green alliance – red for progressivism and green for Islam – whose values on many issues seem so diametrically opposed and yet they are united in their determination to dismantle the Western civilization [...]

Mark Tapson

Mark Tapson

A MARRIAGE MADE IN HELL: THE RED-GREEN ALLIANCE AT WAR WITH THE WEST

2024-02-09T09:46:39-05:00February 9, 2024|

On Saturday, January 13, marking almost 100 days after the Muslim terror group Hamas’ savage massacre in Israel last October 7, thousands of left-wing, pro-Palestinian demonstrators rallied at the White House. They were united there to condemn President Joe Biden for his administration’s defense of Israel and to [...]

Mark Tapson

Mark Tapson

STARING INTO THE ABYSS

2023-11-03T05:30:42-05:00November 5, 2023|

The absurdist play The Arsonists, written by Swiss novelist and playwright Max Frisch and staged in 1958, opens with the middle-class protagonist, a businessman named Biedermann, commenting in exasperation on a wave of arson attacks in the community. The perpetrators reportedly manage to talk their way into people’s [...]

Mark Tapson

Mark Tapson

MASCULINITY AND THE FUTURE OF THE WEST

2023-08-22T12:08:27-05:00August 22, 2023|

Recent titles like The War on the West, How to Save the West, Manhood, and The Toxic War on Masculinity suggest that conservative thinkers have become increasingly preoccupied with two urgent cultural issues: the decline of Western civilization and the crisis of masculinity. I myself have written and [...]

Mark Tapson

Mark Tapson

Lighting the Way in a New Dark Age

2023-04-24T10:36:01-05:00April 29, 2023|

In a statement that crystallized the spirit of his era, Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola declared in his Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486) that the free will granted to us by God allows us either to descend to the level of brutes or to aspire [...]

Mark Tapson

Mark Tapson

Is the American Military Too Woke for War?

2022-03-30T10:58:29-05:00March 31, 2022|

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for War. – George Washington During the January [...]

Mark Tapson

Mark Tapson

The Road to Civilizational Collapse

2021-09-30T02:31:11-05:00September 30, 2021|

On the cusp of the 2008 presidential election, then-candidate Barack Obama memorably told a crowd at Missouri University that “we are five days from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” This notion that the incoming administration intended to burn down the old, flawed America, so that a [...]

Mark Tapson

Mark Tapson

Cultural Marxism for Kids: The Left’s Subversive Weapon of Mass Instruction

2020-11-23T22:45:49-05:00October 30, 2020|

In a revealing 2013 network promo, then-host Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC caused a stir by declaring, in the context of children’s education, “We’ve always had kind of a private notion of children: ‘Your kid is yours, and totally your responsibility.’ We haven’t had a very collective notion that [...]

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