A History of Hate
The New York Review of Books joins the chorus of America haters deliberately distorting American history and all those who work to actually understand it.
The Politics of Inertia
The blind trajectory set by Joe Biden’s autopilot just barreled on through, unhindered.
Abandon the Swamp
The only hope for the republic is to downgrade the place of Washington in our public life. The business of Washington is to make government bigger—forever. That is not
what the people want.
what the people want.
Deliver Us from Reality
The only silver lining in this minatory storm cloud is the fact that such movements, though unconscionably cruel, arbitrary, and destructive, are also astonishingly fragile.
An American’s View of the Coronation
If the pageantry surrounding Charles III seemed quaintly anachronistic, it was also moving in an irreducibly pertinent way.
The Mexicanization of American Politics
Our public life today is a seething cauldron of animosities.
The Garland, Blinken, and Morell Morass
It is possible that both Garland and Blinken will have to answer for their alleged malfeasance. Both might easily be impeached and forced from office.
We Can’t Have Nice Things
Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into
a caricature of itself.
a caricature of itself.
Then and Now
This is Easter, a holiday commemorating a miracle.
That is good, because we are going to need one.
That is good, because we are going to need one.
Banana Time for the Rule of Law
When agents of the deep state hector you about
“the rule of law,” laugh in their faces.
“the rule of law,” laugh in their faces.
Who Says That Chance Rules in the Affairs of Men?
Our foresight is always an adventure, practiced at the pleasure of the unpredictable.
Donald Trump, Regime Foe
We don’t acknowledge that we promulgate bills of attainder in this country, but that is essentially the judgment that has been pronounced against the former president.
Recalling Santayana’s Genteel Tradition
George Santayana’s interest in philosophy was for the reality it revealed—and for the relief that it promised.
The Passion of Scott Adams
Once whetted, the appetite of the woke beast is insatiable. But one senses it is nearly sated in its hate feast
against Scott Adams.
against Scott Adams.
Biden’s Ukraine Serenade
This President’s Day, our president was overseas promising money to the Ukrainian president, while Donald Trump offered aid and comfort to American victims in East Palestine.
A Modest Proposal for Transforming the Universities
The entire apparatus can be restaffed and employed to help dismantle all the bogus, intellectually vacuous programs, departments, and initiatives whose sole purpose is to foster permanent grievance.
The Forgotten Truth of War
Marinated in peace and affluence, we in the West have neglected the truth that human beings are geared for war.
Peace Through Strength or
Chaos Through Senility?
The Chinese would not have been deploying spy balloons over U.S. nuclear installations if Donald Trump was still president.
Justice for John Eastman
The fundamental message implicit in the California Bar’s vendetta against Trump’s former lawyer is this: “We’re the government. We’ve defined what is truth.
How dare you question us.”
How dare you question us.”
Too Much to Hope?
Is it too much to hope that fit retribution is even now being organized for these bitchy, beige, and bland totalitarians of the deep state?