Faster Feiler, Faster!
The Feiler Faster Thesis posits that the pace of social change is accelerated by the increasing rapidity of the technology used by journalists to report […]
Americanism
Liberalism and the Abnormal Trump
The enduring triumph of liberalism was not the civil rights movement, women’s liberation, open borders, or even Obergefell v. Hodges. Something more fundamental happened long […]
Trumping Freedom of Association
The owner of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave because the proprietor and her staff did not want […]
Does Christianity Demand Open Borders?
The recent hysteria over children at the border mirrors the earlier media-driven hysteria about Black Lives Matter, Russian collusion, and the immediate need for gun […]
Media’s Defense of Ali Watkins Exposes the Swamp
In an attempt to defend its hiring of Ali Watkins, the young reporter caught having an affair with a now-indicted Senate staffer responsible for protecting […]
California Gets Its MOGO Working
In 1987, California Governor George Deukmejian returned $1.1 billion directly to the people “to protect this money for the taxpayers.” In the current $200 billion […]
George Will Willfully Wills Defeat
George F. Will is no William F. Buckley, Jr. Buckley could drop a $5-word or an historical reference in one of his columns and readers […]
American Greatness and American Venality
One ought to be immune to what Roger Simon splendidly and succinctly called the “festival of hypocrisy” that is the current hysteria over separating family […]
Trump’s Immigration Policies Aren’t Like Japanese Internment
I rarely feel sympathy for Members of Congress, least of all Maryland Democrat Elijah Cummings, but his tearful plea about separating children from their illegal […]
The Dream and the Nightmare of Globalization
After World War II, only the United States possessed the capital, the military, freedom, and the international good will to arrest the spread of global […]
Trump’s Moves With N. Korea Are Nothing Like Obama’s With Iran
In the wake of the Singapore summit with North Korea, many commentators and publicists, Democrats as well as figures from the NeverTrump Right, have argued […]
The New Model Military
For the vast majority of Americans, the military is a source of pride. And because of the uncompromising nature of war, and the naturally masculine […]
Revenge of the Feminists
So it’s come to this. “Why can’t we hate men?” asks Suzanna Danuta Walters, a professor of sociology and director of the awkwardly named Women’s, […]
How Twitter Diplomacy Works
President Trump this week will bust 68 years of diplomatic white paper inertia and meet the leader of a nation with which America has been […]
Thank God Trump Isn’t a Foreign Policy Expert
Over the last century, the world has witnessed the slow but steady depoliticization of America and Western Europe in favor of the rule of the […]
Trump is Right: G7 Needs a Wake-Up Call on Trade
The recent meeting of the G7 leaders in La Malbaie, Quebec ended dramatically, with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau harshly criticizing U.S. tariffs on steel […]
Show Us the Sources and Methods
“We have to protect sources and methods!” This claim has been deployed repeatedly by those who want to impede the efforts of President Trump and […]
When Christianity Trumped the Constitution
Guess who spoke these words: I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit […]
Cake, Conscience, and Kangaroo Courts
The Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission was no jurisprudential masterpiece, but its messy eating marks an important point […]
A Bad Aftertaste in the Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision
I’m amazed by those pundits who offer a thorough analysis of Supreme Court cases within hours of their publication. I find it takes a bit […]