Mytheos Holt is senior fellow in the Freedom to Innovate at the Institute for Liberty, and a 2019 Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute. He has held positions at the R Street Institute, Mair Strategies, TheBlaze, and National Review. He also worked as a speechwriter for U.S. Sen. John Barrasso. His writing on video games has been featured at TheBlaze, Gamesided, the Escapist, and The Federalist. He hails originally from Big Sur, California, but currently lives in New York. Yes, Mytheos is his real name.
Donald Trump is conservative—but not in the way most Americans, and many modern conservatives, think of that word.
Donald Trump represents the first candidate for whom success could only come after a culture war apocalypse.
The cowardice of the Republican Party and its allies has embittered people who love America’s heritage and see it as necessary for preserving free government. They see Trump as a champion.
On the one side, we have state-sponsored terrorists. On the other, we have the First Order.
Black Lives Matter sympathizers proposed burning Wesleyan University newspapers that contain a mildly conservative viewpoint. But this will expand that viewpoint’s reach.
The video game critic doesn’t promote feminism, but ‘a sucker born every minute’ con artistry transformed into a moral vision.
One of the worst legacies of the gay rights movement has been to popularize the ‘born this way’ meme. It shouldn’t give pedophiles cover.
Brianna Wu’s insistence that video-game character Samus Aran is trans comes from nothing more than a victim complex he wishes everyone to reinforce.
If you need trigger warnings in order to learn, then the only warning anyone should hear is a warning against letting you in the classroom.
The utter destruction of the Hugo Awards is a warning not just to nerds, but to Western Civilization that social justice cannot be tolerated.
Be careful what you wish for; you just might get it.
The case of Professor Laura Kipnis sheds light on the Left’s hypocritical grasp of free speech, which threatens to shut down debate for us all.
GamerGate’s champions these days seem to come almost exclusively from the Right.
If there was ever a man who was suited for a national moment because of his flaws rather than his virtues, it’s Donald Trump.
The Right has enthusiastically embraced Internet culture, even if the defenders of that culture are sometimes leery of the Right.
A bunch of people who do nothing but invade the comments sections on blogs and YouTube will never become a political force to be reckoned with. Sorry, men’s rights crusaders.
Conservatives who are tired of the Left’s incoherent race baiting owe Rachel Dolezal a debt of gratitude.
Video games like the new ‘Doom’ show the dark side of human nature, which the Left doesn’t want to believe exists.
For belonging, millennials turn not to churches but to social networks like Twitter, which are great at shaming but terrible at forgiveness.
The mass-murderer protagonist of ‘Hatred’ rebukes political correctness…but not the way you think.