Defeating the Culture of Death
We don’t need more gun control. We need morality, religion, community—and the gallows.
We Have Stumbled Into a Shambles
It's much harder to be complacent about criminal violence now, as so many of us were a few short years ago. Are we ready, at long last, to wage a true war on crime?
The Donald, Dukakis, and a True War on Crime
Both George H.W. Bush and Trump could have taken decisive action to reestablish law and order. Both were turned out of office after failing to do so.
Crush Crime, and Watch ‘Woke’ Power Collapse
Here we are again with the self-congratulatory Left slaving away to get rid of guns, and with far too few conservatives bestirring themselves to get rid of murderers.
With Trump Out of the Way, the Left Comes for the Death Penalty
An emboldened Left now has capital punishment in its crosshairs.
Trumpism Without Trump: Not Kinder and Gentler, But Harder and Fiercer
If we must maintain Trumpism without Donald Trump, let it not be a pale shadow of the old man’s example, as Reaganism was without Reagan.
America Is in Danger of Becoming a Byword to the World
Blind rage is driving events in America’s own “Age of Dreyfus.”
Hatred in War and in Peace
What’s disturbing today is that so few of our most aggressive haters—the Social Justice Warriors—understand themselves to be haters at all.
Of Rioters and Lamp-posts
The current storm will pass. But in its wake, Trump will need, among other things, to make good on his vows to crush crime.
In the Global Culture War, People and Paintings Are Both at Risk
Like Otto von Bismarck’s original Kulturkampf, it is a struggle over whose values, beliefs, and practices will prevail.
The Left’s Raising and Glorifying of Cain
Aversion to God and infatuation with criminals. Those twin traits aren’t common to every “progressive.” But in America, as in Canada, they are common enough to have made a comfortable home for themselves on the Left.
Trump Hasn’t Yet Fulfilled His ‘Law and Order’ Vow
A decline of 3.9 percent, or even of 6.8 percent, does not satisfy the hopes raised in at least some of us by Trump’s vow to bring “the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation” to an end “very soon.” Even when he nods in that direction, his attention to the issue seems mostly rhetorical. In short, he got us up on tiptoes and then didn’t kiss us.
Teddy Roosevelt’s Rules
We are no longer working under the pressure, as in Roosevelt’s time, of persuading vigilantes to stay their hands and let the law run its course. All the more reason why we “as a people” should take effectual steps to make the law itself come “to the Assistance of the Innocent and Helpless.”
Lynching: It’s Not About Race
Let’s say this all together: Due process is good, even when accorded to a despised political enemy. Law and order is good, even when it involves the punishment of “people who look like me.”
Henry Fielding, a Man for This Season
"To speak out fairly and honestly, though mercy may appear more amiable in a magistrate, severity is a more wholesome virtue," wrote the great 18th-century English jurist and author of Tom Jones. He has much to teach Americans about criminal justice in the 21st-century.
Crime, Not Guns or Racism, Is Our Ongoing Problem
Many years ago, I was mowing a lady’s lawn on a hot summer day. The lady lived in a small cottage in a barrio on […]
A Visit to Trigger Town
The Drudge Report on Thursday featured an arresting headline: “D.C. Tourist Savagely Beaten, Stomped, Spit on by Gang of Youths.” Who could resist clicking on […]
Insolent Leftists Would Lock Us Up in Hamlet’s World
When I was a boy, everyone said the epitome of Shakespeare is Hamlet’s soliloquy. The soliloquy, the one from Act III, the one that poses […]
Hollywood’s Happy Hoodlum Makes Murder Routine
The crook is in a parking lot trying to break into a car when he sees a lady with shopping bags approaching her vehicle. Pretending […]
From ‘Birth’ to ‘Glory’ by Way of ‘Wind’
At the end of his documentary series “The Civil War,” Ken Burns bids farewell to many of the figures who drove that story. They departed […]