
‘That We Here Highly Resolve . . . ’
Part memoir and part history, U.S. Senator Tom Cotton’s Sacred Duty recounts in vivid detail the stories of the men and women who make up […]
Part memoir and part history, U.S. Senator Tom Cotton’s Sacred Duty recounts in vivid detail the stories of the men and women who make up […]
Google tried to censor the Claremont Institute last week. The tech giant backed off under pressure, but the tactical maneuver was hardly a failure. To […]
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You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter […]
One of my favorite journals, The New Criterion, recently posted an article by one of my favorite commentators, James Piereson (disclosure: I’ve know Jim for […]
Is it true that Twitter, Facebook, and Google are private companies, which can cancel, delete, or ban anyone they want at any time? Short answer: […]
Donald Trump never studied political philosophy; and for that those of us who have might say, “Thank God.” For one thing he would have been […]
Day by day, the regressive Left drags American society closer to violent conflict. First, it was ok to punch fascists, or systematically to infiltrate an […]
Sometimes a picture isn’t just worth 1,000 words, but 1,000 years of history. This tableau, justly famous already, depicts (with only slight exaggeration) the future […]
As the first bloody spasm of liberalism’s utopian convulsions, the French Revolution is rife with antecedents. Portrait of an Average Woman, Christian Zweig’s masterful biography […]
During the 1980s—the heyday of the flamboyant, headline-grabbing New York mafioso, including Carmine “The Snake” Persico, Tony “Ducks” Corallo, and Vinny “The Chin” Gigante—an ambitious […]
Never mind what you’ve read here, or here. The “deep state” doesn’t exist. But don’t take my word for it. The Nation says so, based on […]
The very thoughtful Thomas Chatterton Williams, who I quoted in yesterday’s post about Ta-Nehisi Coates, has his own response to Coates’ Atlantic essay in The […]
The latest installment of The Confessions of Saint Ta-Nehisi Coates, appearing yesterday in The Atlantic, takes the form of a jeremiad against the iniquities of […]
Last night, I got to hear Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, author of the best-selling 12 Rules for Life, speak at the Warner Theater in downtown […]
Journalism—the “professional” kind, the sort taught at the Columbia School of Journalism—is dead. Yet, zombie-like, it shambles on, eating the brains of both its consumers […]
Fans of the fantastic HBO series “Westworld” (the second season of which just started) will know that when one of the cyborg “hosts” encounters something that […]
A few months ago, Dave Rubin (one of the best podcast interviewers on YouTube ) spoke with the African-American writer and producer Candace Owens about […]
The amazing Thomas Sowell influenced me deeply when I was a young man, and at 87 he is still going strong. The first part of […]
A few weeks ago, in my northwest Washington D.C. neighborhood, I witnessed a most curious motorcade driving down Connecticut Avenue, transporting what appeared to be […]