
Restoring the Lost Consensus
Looking around the cultural landscape today, I conclude that we are in the midst of a sort of negative religious revival: let’s call it America’s […]
Looking around the cultural landscape today, I conclude that we are in the midst of a sort of negative religious revival: let’s call it America’s […]
The revival of reparations talk signals an opportunity for a serious discussion of the revival of republican self-government or strong citizenship. Instead, we get the […]
During a private dinner last week at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, D.C., I was taken to task by a Republican congressman after I […]
President Trump on Monday paid a visit to north-central Pennsylvania, where he addressed a MAGA rally in a hangar at the Williamsport Regional Airport. As […]
The entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative was always implausible. One, the Washington swamp of fixers such as Paul Manafort and John and Tony Podesta was mostly […]
The good news for President Trump is that most Americans agree with Republicans about race: that we are all created equal and deserve equal treatment […]
The College Board last week announced a plan to add an “adversity score” to its Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). Justifying the move, College Board President […]
Each one of the more than 50 million abortions committed in the United States since the Supreme Court’s abysmal decision in Roe v. Wade (1973) […]
We are three years into the biggest political scandal in American history and former President Barack Obama has yet to be asked about his role […]
In his statement to Fox News last week, former U.S. Representative Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said that in the much-discussed dispute between former FBI Director James […]
It takes clarity and consistency to face down an extinction burst successfully. “An extinction what,” you ask? “Extinction burst” is the term behavioral scientists use […]
There is something Kafkaesque about the current round of investigating possible FBI, CIA, National Security Agency, Justice Department, and National Security Council wrongdoing during the […]
President Trump met Viktor Orban of Hungary. The liberal establishment went crazy but should they have? What’s going on with populist nationalist movement in Europe […]
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) made the mistake Tuesday of using “space” and “pirates” in the same sentence, and the Twittersphere pounced. At first, media coverage […]
President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order in a prescient move to defend America’s national security against Chinese cyber espionage. Invoking his powers under […]
Today, the United States finds itself in a new Cold War. This is not so much an ideological conflict as the last one was. Instead, […]
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. […]
Many social conservatives excel at diagnosis of our social ills, but often fail or stop short of prescription. They can tell us where we’ve gone […]
Attorney General Bill Barr recently asked a question that all Americans should be asking: “How did we get to the point where . . . […]
Around the inner rotunda of the Rhode Island state capitol stands this quotation from Tacitus: Rara temporum felicitas ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias […]