Burying the Dead With Bile-Filled Histrionics
The big news last week revolved around the funerals of a 1960s pop singer and an unreliable Republican senator with a cult following among masochistic […]
Crime and Punishment
One of the reasons so many people are confused by the operations of our self-appointed fourth branch of government—I mean in this instance the unending, […]
Hillsdale’s Honor Endures a Preposterous, Vicious Attack
The conformist nature and indiscriminate animus exhibited by the hive mentality of the anti-Trump brotherhood is a marvel to behold. Future students of abnormal psychology […]
What Critics Missed About the Trump-Putin Summit
When Presidents Trump and Vladimir Putin ended their joint press conference in Helsinki, the punditocracy predictably swarmed all over it like ants around a pile […]
The Left Is Slipping into Terminal Irrelevance
Well, last week was quite a week. For one side, a week of winning. For the other, a week of wailing. It will be no […]
A Comedy of Corruption? Or a Bureaucratic Horror Show?
If the stakes were not so high, the 568-page report issued last week by the Justice Department Office of the Inspector General (“A Review of […]
Tom Wolfe, 1930–2018: On the Late Literary Treasure
Editor’s note: This essay appears in the June 2018 issue of the The New Criterion. It is reprinted by their kind permission. The passing of Tom Wolfe last month at […]
A Clueless “Final Year”
Remember the Duck Rabbit? That’s the famous image that, seen one way, looks like a duck but, seen from another angle, looks like a rabbit. […]
What Happened to Carter Page?
I miss Carter Page. It seems like years since I have heard anything about the American businessman who briefly volunteered at Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. […]
Thoughts on ‘Unfettered Power’
Where to start? The phrase “unfettered power,” to which I will return, may put you in mind of Lord Acton’s famous observation that “power corrupts, […]
Edmund Burke on Michelle Wolf
Watching the disgusting (and decidedly unfunny) performance of the comedienne Michelle Wolf at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last night, I thought of two things. One was, […]
The McCabe Report is Just an Appetizer
What a delicious hors d’oeuvre Michael Horowitz gave the world on Friday! The inspector general for Department of Justice finally issued his eagerly awaited (eagerly […]
Why Kevin Williamson Matters
Any rational person’s list of the most intelligent and pungent columnists now writing will perforce include the name Kevin Williamson, late of National Review and, […]
Fahrenheit 451 Updated
What took them so long? That was our first question when we heard the latest news about the distinguished University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy […]
‘Never Again’? Omnibus Bill Is a Product of the Swamp
Thinking about the $1.3 trillion—that’s “trillion” with a “t” for “terrifying”—omnibus spending bill that President Trump signed on Friday, I wonder who is most unhappy […]
A ‘Higher Loyalty’ to Their Inflated Sense of Virtue
Some portion of the reading public is eagerly awaiting A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, the aptly titled exercise in self-serving historical revisionism by […]
Hillary Clinton, Pride of Radcliffe
The Harvard Crimson last week announced that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would receive the Radcliffe Medal on May 25 at the Radcliffe Institute […]
The Woman in the High Castle
In a dystopian fantasy in The New York Times at the end of the year, the columnist Bret Stephens reminded us of the horror that […]
The Schiff Obstruction
Readers of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit will recall the philosopher’s withering comments about “the dogmatism of mere assertion” which yields naught but an empty and […]
Our New Secessionists
Item 1: “People now marvel how it came to pass that he should have been selected as the representative man of any party. His . […]