Decline and Fall: Classics Edition
For the study of classics, it is (if we may adapt Dickens) the best of times and the worst of times. It is the best […]
A Better Guide than Elite Opinion Is Public Revulsion at It
Some expert in Bayesian probability ought to come up with an algorithm that would enable us to determine which of the multifarious daily outrages are […]
It’s All About the Wall
Bismarck said that politics is the art of the possible. It looks like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and other Democrats […]
The Character That Matters
A few days ago, American Greatness published some thoughts of mine about Jonah Goldberg’s contention that “President Trump is not a man of good character” […]
Permanent Things: Russell Kirk’s Centenary
Mark the uncanny hand of coincidence. When I began thinking about putting together a conference about the legacy of Russell Kirk last spring, I knew […]
Jonah Goldberg and Cardinal Newman
My friend Jonah Goldberg has prompted me to think a bit about the issue of character as it relates to public service. Jonah thinks that […]
The Wall is Trump’s ‘Read My Lips’ Moment
A major reason that George H. W. Bush was elected in 1988 was his pledge, dramatically enunciated at the Republican National Convention in August of […]
Déjà Vu and Cohen Hysteria
Déjà-vu all over again. I have always admired that mot attributed to the philosopher Yogi Berra. And I think that if you look around at […]
Welcome Back to the Big Bully Boy Scout Show
Like a long-running entertainment, the Boy Scout Show, starring the lugubrious Robert Mueller as the big bully himself, is back. Off the air for some […]
An Outrage Meter for the Trump Era
There was a daytime television show I remember from my youth called “Queen for a Day.” It had three essential features. Hard luck stories from […]
Democrats and the Press vs. Collegiality
The world is divided into two classes of people: those who think that CNN’s Jim Acosta is “rude” and a “terrible person” and Jim Acosta. […]
The Eternal Return of a Malevolent Charade
The eternal return—Friedrich Nietzsche thought the idea was horrifying. Life as an endless merry-go-round in which the same things keep recurring, forever. That prospect, Nietzsche […]
With the Kavanaugh Fight, Political Warfare Escalates
Scorched earth. That’s the tactic the Democrats and their enablers in the media and George Soros-funded hit squads are employing against Brett Kavanaugh. We all […]
Trump’s Triumph at the U.N.
President Trump’s speech at the United Nations on Tuesday is one of the greatest political speeches ever delivered in peacetime. Maybe you are like those […]
After Kavanaugh, A Way to Take the Spectacle Out of Confirmations
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] Is there a silver lining in the malignant circus now playing at the Capitol and beamed to […]
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 […]