Trumpism Without Trump: Not Kinder and Gentler, But Harder and Fiercer
America Is in Danger of Becoming a Byword to the World
Hatred in War and in Peace
Of Rioters and Lamp-posts
In the Global Culture War, People and Paintings Are Both at Risk
The Left’s Raising and Glorifying of Cain
Trump Hasn’t Yet Fulfilled His ‘Law and Order’ Vow
Teddy Roosevelt’s Rules
Lynching: It’s Not About Race
Henry Fielding, a Man for This Season
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 […]
Melodrama or Reality?
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] In the spring of 1519, the Aztec god-king Montezuma II received word that strange, marvelous creatures had […]
The Battle of the Boyne and the Laboratory of the States
Former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, now governor of California, heard a still, small voice the other night. The voice said, “Gavin, the intentional killing […]
God’s Ways and Our Ways
Did you hear that Phil Robertson has a new book out? Yes, the “Duck Dynasty” patriarch, author of Happy Happy Happy, UnPHILtered, and (in a […]
John Wayne, Frank Capra, and C.S. Lewis—Haters All!
Mean People Suck.” I first saw that bumper-sticker slogan almost 20 years ago, pinned to the office bulletin board at the newspaper where I worked. […]