n an odd echo of Patrick Buchanan, the godfather of Trumpism, Joe Biden has called this election “a battle for the soul of the nation.” The path forward for President Trump is again to take up Buchanan’s mantle, as he did so boldly four years ago. The sudden death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has […]
he Democrats and Republicans spent hours giving speeches at their nominating conventions, but their respective takeaways were simple enough. One party thinks America is racist to the core and that it must give way to something radically new. The other party thinks America is already great and that it is worth defending. Vice President Mike […]
n Portland last weekend, a white man was dragged out of his car and beaten within an inch of his life by a Black Lives Matter mob. The man had crashed his vehicle after being chased by the mob from a 7-Eleven, where he had gotten between them and another person they were terrorizing. As the […]
ll presidential campaigns have to sell themselves to voters, but the Biden-Harris ticket is a swindle. In the days since Biden announced his “running mate,” it has become ever more clear that this “campaign” is in fact a political coup. We are dealing with a presidential candidate who can’t answer a follow-up question and a […]
any people were quick to call Obama’s eulogy for John Lewis distasteful, and that it was. But there is a hazard of being too offended on Lewis’s behalf. Really, it is hard to imagine that a man who dedicated his life to revolutionary politics would object to the nation’s arch-progressive giving a fire-and-brimstone speech at […]
ou can tell about the soul of a people by looking at who they honor. It used to be that America, more or less universally, admired its founders. But Americans today increasingly fancy themselves more evolved than George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. We imagine that these founders have been “found out.” Their great secret—their hypocrisy […]
ucker Carlson has never been your average TV host, but in the midst of America’s slide into anarcho-tyranny, his Fox News program has taken on a new significance. Just how significant was made clear last week, when the New York Times incited violence against Carlson and his family. Carlson announced on his show that the […]
onald Trump is still the only man in Washington who understands that America is in trouble and the nature of the trouble it is in. We were reminded of this during his moving speech at Mount Rushmore, in which he honored our greatest of all statesmen while calling on Americans to defend—without apology—our home, our […]
or many years, America has been the proverbial frog boiling slowly in a pot. Some were more sensitive to the changes in the water’s temperature than others have been. Others couldn’t sense the change at all. The most sensitive tended to be older white men: white men like your “racist uncle.” It’s time that America […]
o let us have order in America—not the order that suppresses dissent and discourages change but the order which guarantees the right to dissent and provides the basis for peaceful change.” These words were spoken over half a century ago by Richard Nixon as he accepted his party’s nomination for president at the 1968 Republican […]
epublicans are facing their biggest test in generations. The mentality of a psychotic mob of radicals has taken control of the country and its institutions. With remarkable speed, America’s mayors, governors, media, lawmakers, health experts, artists, sports leagues, generals and troops, powerful corporations, and the wealthiest men on the planet, have all loudly endorsed this […]
s America burns, millions of people are asking: why? The proximate cause is known to everyone. No civilized person denies that the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis was a horrific injustice. But in spite of unanimous consent on this matter, America has turned into a powder keg. The truth is, the “protests” aren’t about […]
hat kind of message does it send when the president, five months before his reelection contest, throws the first senator ever to endorse his presidency under the bus? For supporters of Jeff Sessions, President Trump’s decision to snub his former attorney general and endorse a goofy RINO football coach instead is more evidence that the […]
ll great people have a sense that they are destined for great things. Stacey Abrams predicts that she will be president of the United States by 2040. Come what may of her White House aspirations this year, Abrams speaks like someone who believes she is bound for immortality—indeed, that she’s entitled to it. Her infatuated […]
here’s nothing the Left hates more than seeing people they personally despise get a fair shake. By now the evidence that Michael Flynn is the victim of a grievous and disturbing crime is undeniable. Yet not everyone is celebrating his apparent vindication. The Left sees Flynn’s exoneration as a crime in itself. Barack Obama summarized […]
he consequences of the coronavirus have been profound, but the politics of it have turned out to be remarkably trivial. That’s worrisome. When the pandemic first landed in America, there was a momentousness that birthed a cottage industry for spouting clever predictions about how society would change forever. On the political front, a conflict quickly […]
oliticians love to talk about how they’re not political. In the era of coronavirus, the dishonest “non-partisan” style of politicians in ordinary times has been taken to a new extreme. Politicians now insist that their decisions are not up for debate. Politics, in fact, has been put on hold. Their decisions are backed by science: […]
he debate over the lockdowns is pretty well-worn by now, but those in favor of the draconian restrictions aren’t helping their case with statements like these. “You want to go to work? Go take a job as an essential worker,” said New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday. “Do it tomorrow. You can get a […]
he big unresolved question of the Trump era is simple: What happens when Donald Trump’s presidency is over? Has the Republican Party really become more “populist,” or will the GOP revert to the neoliberal, neoconservative status quo? The coronavirus has brought this question into focus like never before. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a supposed populist […]
here’s a classic episode of “The Twilight Zone” starring William Shatner in one of his two roles in the series playing a young neurotic. In this one, he becomes obsessed with a fortune-teller machine in a Midwestern diner. Marooned with his new wife over car trouble, Shatner’s character asks a series of questions—Will I get […]