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 […]
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Reparations and Diversity Are Not the Path to Equality
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 […]
The Deep State Just Killed Space Force—and Endangered Us All
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 […]
What I Saw at Trump’s Pennsylvania Rally
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 […]
Federal Rats Are Fleeing the Sinking Collusion Ship
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 […]
President Trump Can Win on Race
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 […]
A Mighty Fortress is Our Victimhood
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 […]
God Bless Alabama
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) […]
Why Did Obama Allow Comey to Brief Trump on the Russian Prostitute Story?
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 […]
Was the Steele Dossier a Crown Operation?
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 […]
Don’t Just Resist—Insist!
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 […]
He Did It, Not Me!
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 […]
The Chris Buskirk Show: Episode 5—Trump Meets Hungary’s Orban, and More
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 […]
Ted Cruz Is Right About Space Piracy
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 […]
Trump Shuts China’s ‘Backdoor’ to Cyber Spying
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 […]
Trading Ukraine for Venezuela Would Be a Good Deal
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, […]
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. […]
Courageous Homesickness
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 […]
How the FBI Broke the Rules Using Christopher Steele
Attorney General Bill Barr recently asked a question that all Americans should be asking: “How did we get to the point where . . . […]
The Constitution Does Not Protect Freedom of Speech
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 […]