An Impeachment Incitement
What is this latest impeachment gambit really about? Of course, it was a Parthian shot to discredit President Trump’s supporters.
Crazy 2020 Is Dead! Long Live Crazier 2021!
Hang on. It is going to be Mr. Toad’s wild scary ride for all of 2021.
Defenders of Civilization?
Our grandees seem too exhausted, too guilty, or too ignorant to pass on and improve the civilization they inherited for others to come.
The Virus Is Not Invincible, But It’s Exposing Who’s Irreplaceable
We're reposting a few of the more notable essays we've published this year. This article first appeared March 23, 2020.
Did Americans Come to Love Big Brother?
Millions of Americans may come to resemble Winston Smith, the defeated hero of Nineteen Eighty-Four, who at last accepts the calm.
COVID, Woke Science—and Death
In this brave new world of ours, will we be pruning back the elderly altogether by credentialed “ethicists,” whether because of their longevity or race?
‘Collusion’ vs. Collusion
One can lie about “collusion” with impunity. But to speak the truth about collusion is to be smeared as “xenophobic,” “racist,” and “nativist.”
The Scars of 2020
The summer of COVID-19, quarantines, riot and arson, and an absence of confidence in the sanctity of voting ended with deep wounds on the body politic—wounds we will bear from now on.
Why Our Universities Have Failed
Something went wrong with the rapidly expanding university in the 1960s, and the new 21st century, high-tech, globalized campus has made the mess it inherited dangerous.
A Time of Chaos Upon Chaos Atop Chaos
There is a series of battles to come in January 2021, in 2022, and in 2024 that will be definitive, if the chaos of 2020 does not become even more chaotic.
The Trump CT Scanner
Donald Trump has forced elites to reveal to the nation what they were—and perhaps had always been. And the resulting penetrating imagery showed their own malignancy.
The NeverTrump Never Again
Perhaps bad men can do a few good things, but they cannot do a lot of good things. And Trump did a lot more good for the country than had prior supposedly good presidents.
Donald Trump, Counterrevolutionary
Against all the money and clout of America’s revolutionary forces, the counterrevolutionary Trump had only one asset, the proverbial people.
Trumpism: Then, Now—and in the Future?
Like it or not, Trump hit on a great truth that no country can write off its vast industrial interior, destroy its borders, or prefer managed decline over renewal, and meanwhile call itself moral.
The Unapologetic Bias of the American Left
Today’s Left sees their efforts bending in a preordained historical arc that ends with ultimate progressive justice—and retributions.
Trump Is Now One With Countless Essential Workers
President Trump has no reason to apologize for getting sick. He took risks to meet the obligations of his office and is now one with the millions who do the same thing, every day.
The Full Crowley
Whether these journalists know it or not, in the American mind they are already retired before they have even retired.
The Progressive Medusa
The hard Left believes its mission is so critical, so morally superior, that all means can be justified to achieve its noble ends. And so almost every institution that the Left has in its line of vision is now petrifying.
A Woke Joe Biden Ends His Hibernation
Will the return of the Democratic nominee preserve his fourth-quarter eroding lead?
Biden, ‘The Great and Powerful’
For now Joe Biden’s best hope is that some Emerald City media lackey does not play the role of the tiny dog Toto, rip away the curtain, and reveal the tiny man and his machinery behind the projection.