Attack of the Techno-Lynch Mob
The Covington Lie offered the perfect occasion for the electronic mob to pounce—after temporarily licking its wounds following the BuzzFeed fake news hysteria. And it […]
Auditing Our Auditors
The Roman satirist Juvenal, in a famous passage, asked, “Who will watch the watchmen?” That problem of policing the police has troubled Western thinkers from […]
Should the FBI Run the Country?
Since the media would doubtless answer that loaded question, “It depends on the president,” let us imagine the following scenario. Return to 2008, when candidate […]
Trump’s Re-Election Chances May Be Better Than You Think
What are Donald Trump’s chances for re-election in 2020? If history is any guide, pretty good. In early 1994, Bill Clinton’s approval rating after two […]
The Game of Pseudo-Authenticity
Americans always have been prone to reinventing themselves. We now live in an age of radical social construction—a sort of expansive update on F. Scott […]
The Ironies of Illegal Immigration
Estimates suggest that there are 11 million to 13 million Mexican citizens currently living in the United States illegally. Millions more emigrated previously and are […]
An Epidemic of Erasures, Redactions, Omissions, and Perjuries
Imagine the following: The IRS sends you, John Q. Citizen, a letter alleging you have not complied with U.S. tax law. In the next paragraph, […]
Actually, 2018 Was a Pretty Good Year
The year 2018 will be deplored by pundits as a bad year of more unpredictable Donald Trump, headlined by wild stock market gyrations, the melodramas […]
Our Exhausted American Mediocracy
The unlikely 2016 election of Donald Trump—the first president without either prior political or military office—was a repudiation of the American “aristocracy.” By “rule of […]
Mueller Investigation Stirring Up More Trouble Than It’s Finding
After 19 months, special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has charged a number of targets with almost every conceivable sin—except collusion with Russia to throw an […]
The Neverending, Mysterious Saga of Michael Flynn
Certainly, no one should defend a top-ranking federal employee’s lying to federal investigators or to his superiors in the Trump Administration, if that is what […]
It Was Always About the Wall
There was likely never going to be “comprehensive immigration reform” or any deal amnestying the DACA recipients in exchange for building the wall. Democrats in […]
The Globalist Mindset: They Hate You
Against what or whom is the contemporary Western public pushing back? The French non-Parisians against new green taxes on already unaffordable gasoline? Broke southern European […]
Comey Continues to Display His Lack of Credibility
Fired former FBI director James Comey is at it again. Last week, Comey testified before members of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight […]
Defeat and the Dossier Explain Everything
Donald Trump’s former consiglieri Michael Cohen, along with being charged with tax avoidance and improper business deals, allegedly is guilty also of trying to leverage […]
The Perpetual Presidency
Former President Barack Obama recently continued his series of public broadsides against his successor, Donald Trump. Obama’s charges are paradoxical. On one hand, Obama seems […]
Does ‘Make X Great Again’ Ever Happen in History?
The short answer: Sometimes. Here’s one example. By 527 A.D., the Eastern Roman Empire at Constantinople seemed fated to collapse like the West had a […]
Is There a 51 Percent Solution for Trump?
President Trump’s challenges are not really his economic policies and foreign affairs agendas. For the most part, they are supported by the American people and […]
The Costs of Presidential Candor
Predictably, Donald Trump was attacked both by the establishment and the media as “crude,” “unpresidential,” and “gratuitous” for a recent series of blunt and graphic […]
Did 1968 Win the Cultural War?
Fifty years ago this year, the ’60s revolution sought to overturn U.S. customs, traditions, ideology and politics. The ’60s radicals eventually grew older, cut their […]