Pundits in the mainstream American media are driving themselves crazy. Their coverage of President Trump has been at a fever pitch for the past two and a half years, but somehow it feels as though the pitch is constantly rising. Each time we turn on the news, we hear that Trump has said or done
I am sick and tired of hearing about “white privilege.” It has become the go-to buzz phrase for Caucasian social justice warriors seeking a participation trophy for their self-assumed part in "the struggle" of racial and ethnic minorities in America. Ever since one of America's foremost angry victims, Brooklyn native Peggy McIntosh, published her self-hating
There’s an old joke about the drunk who’s hunting for his lost keys under the streetlamp, not because he thinks they’re there, but because the light is good. Well, that’s what federal and state officials are doing to address two recent major public health threats: opioid overdoses and vaping-related illnesses. While creating the illusion that
The entire American Left—the mainstream media, the environmentalist movement and Democratic politicians in particular—are celebrating the involvement of teenagers and even younger children in protesting the world's "inaction" with regard to global warming. And not just the American Left, of course. The Left throughout the world is celebrating. A 16-year-old Swedish girl whose contempt for
The spectacular calving of a glacier is not a spontaneous process. What seems, at first, to be a single, instantaneous episode is, in reality, the culmination of years of small fractures, faults, and crevasses forming and degrading the stability of the ice before the calving occurs. Civic institutions work the same way. When they fall,
OAKDALE, Pennsylvania—Some towns die hard. This one nearly did. The Aetna Chemical Corp. plant exploded 101 years ago, leveling most of the town, killing nearly 200 people, maiming hundreds more. Some body parts landed nearly a mile away. The horrifying news ran across the front page of every newspaper in the country, with reports of
To see the campus of Williams College is to read the story of America. To see the beauty of brick and gold yield to the banality of steel and concrete is to read a story about the decline and fall of both a college and a country. It is a story about the deconsecration of
Here’s a quick history quiz: Regarding which investigation did former FBI attorney Lisa Page write the following text message: “[X] might be our next president. The last thing you need is us going in there loaded for bear”? Was it, (a) a text warning an FBI agent to be careful about investigating former Secretary of
During the time of the Roman Republic, Cato the Elder would end every speech in the Senate, no matter what the topic, with “Carthago delenda est.” Carthage must be destroyed. Why? Because Cato saw Carthage as a very real and existential threat to the Roman Republic. In many ways, the tech monopolies today are a
What is even more obnoxious than thousands of smug, self-righteous leftists preaching hysterically about the Church of Mother Earth and the imminent destruction of our planet due to “global warming?” Hearing this same song-and-dance from a bunch of literal children. And that is exactly what the Left and its enthusiastic enablers in the corporate leftist
