Notes on the Great Realignment
One of these days, I would like to cadge an invitation to a strategy meeting of #TheResistance. Not the pussy-behatted feminoid Hollywood chapter of #TheResistance. […]
Want to Fix the Universities? Here Are Two Options
Once upon a time, long, long ago—in May 2005, in fact—I wrote an essay for The New Criterion with the optimistic title “Retaking the University: […]
Pursue Those Indictments!
They broke the law because they believed they answered to a “higher” law. They need to be called to account.
No Time to ‘Move On’: Trump’s Michigan Triumph
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] [fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] Grand Rapids, Michigan, might be my new favorite city. […]
Woke’s on You!
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] Those who doubt the operation of a beneficent, or at least an amusing, providence should consider the […]
A Tight and Tangled ‘Collusion’ Web
Public service is a marvelous thing.
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 […]