He wrote four sentences, totaling 65 words. He said more, in fewer words, than America’s greatest economizer of words. He wrote about the bravery and […]

In the history of fatuous statements, somewhere between Bill Clinton’s disquisition on what the meaning of the word “is” is and theologians debating how many […]

Forget 1984, and focus on 1999: the year “The Matrix” debuted in theaters. Is it possible that Xi Jinping, the current president of China, saw […]

To suggest that products produce themselves, to suggest that the means of production work without workers, to suggest that we can animate the inherently inanimate, […]

About those amber waves of grain, above the fruited plain: If trial lawyers get their way, there will be bread and circuses aplenty but little […]

Imagine two liars committed to the same lie for different reasons. Imagine telling half the world communism is the wave of the future, while the […]

The office of president of the United States is an impeachable offense. The offenders constitute a gallery of rogues and realists, a monument to men […]

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for all freedom-loving people to stop people whose mission in life is a suicide mission […]

Irony did not die in a fireball of Islamic rage. It did not end on the 11th day of the 9th month of a new […]

What site could be more sacred, what sight could be more sorrowful, what monument could be more metaphorical than reality itself, than the burning of […]

Leave it to a politician obsessed with sewers to practice gutter politics. Leave it to Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, to attack President […]

Greatness is no guarantee of goodness. Nor is goodness a guarantee of godliness, not even when a preacher convinces a president to make good on […]

America’s longest war is the world’s biggest battlefield. The battle is for the life of the world, waged in every city and every hamlet—in every […]

The worst places often have the best-sounding names. So it was with the German Democratic Republic. So it is with the Democratic People’s Republic of […]

Not since H.B. Reese put his chocolate in a jar of peanut butter have two men, Bret Stephens and Andrew Sullivan, been so full of […]

To read Bret Stephens is to know what it means not to have a copy editor. To read his copy is to picture a spasmodic […]

Truth is the unintentional expression of hatred by a person who deplores a group of people. Unlike Hillary Clinton, who believes her opponents are her enemies, […]

From fiascos to disasters to imbroglios to quagmires, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a study in moral defeat and martial failure. Its certainty matches […]