Adam Ellwanger

Adam Ellwanger is a professor of English at the University of Houston-Downtown. He is the author of Metanoia: Rhetoric, Authenticity, and the Transformation of the Self, now available in paperback. You can follow him on Twitter @1HereticalTruth.

Indiana Jones, Independence Day, and the Presence of the Past

Adam Ellwanger July 4, 2023

The ‘Cis-’ Slur and the War on Normality

Adam Ellwanger May 8, 2023

‘Critical Thinking’: An Educational Shock Collar

Adam Ellwanger March 1, 2023

Against Secular Thanksgiving

Adam Ellwanger November 21, 2022

Counterculture Warriors

Adam Ellwanger September 15, 2022

The Tyranny of the ‘Current Thing’

Adam Ellwanger August 8, 2022

"Current Thingism" erodes our ability to think critically about important issues.

Why Is Homophobia on the Rise?

Adam Ellwanger June 25, 2022

The good faith in which opponents of gay marriage responded to the Obergefell ruling has been thrown back in their faces.

Top Gun and American Decline

Adam Ellwanger June 11, 2022

The film shows an America in which every catastrophic policy decision of the last 40 years never occurred.

Blog

Multiculturalism Is Anti-Culture

Adam Ellwanger May 16, 2022

Call Them Groomers

Adam Ellwanger April 23, 2022

Safety Third: Covid-19 and the American Character

Adam Ellwanger February 7, 2022

Health Care is a Privilege

Adam Ellwanger January 26, 2022

Root Causes and the Subversion of Democracy

Adam Ellwanger October 7, 2021

The supposed need to address the "root causes" of every problem rather than the immediate crisis is a carefully calculated misdirection.

Why Identity Politics Kills Democracy

Adam Ellwanger September 16, 2019

A true politics unites disparate people under a single label: citizen. Not so for our current multiculturalism.