Teacher Union Troofers
The teachers’ unions lecturing us about the truth rings very hollow.
Greatness Agenda
Cui Bono? Who Benefits From the Afghanistan Withdrawal?
Foreign policy abhors vacuums, and the United States has now created one.
After Afghanistan, U.S. Still Doesn’t Know Shiite From Shinola
As our skittish media hounds and politicians gnash their teeth over Afghanistan, less hysterical countries are acting calmly in their national interest.
Our Afghan Nightmare:
Tanks for Nothing
Afghanistan has been reinvented as the best-equipped terrorist nation in the world, basking in the prestige of humiliating the world’s superpower.
Afghanistan: The Big Con
Are we ready for the 20th anniversary of September 11? Our enemies certainly are.
Republicans Revive Neoconservatism To Spite Biden
Party leaders may tweet “America First!” but when push comes to shove, they still act like neocons.
A Lesson for Joe Biden
With an assist from Fyodor Dostoyevsky
and H. G. Wells.
and H. G. Wells.
California’s Misguided Education Priorities
Throwing more money at a failing education system is pure folly.
Who Are the Americans Stuck in Afghanistan?
More time in Afghanistan, and more Afghans in our homeland, will not contribute to our national priorities.
Graveyard of Narratives
Perhaps the only useful result of the Afghan enterprise’s clamorous collapse is the widespread recognition that we are not seeing the results of discrete choices about foreign policy.
Judges Are Thwarting Biden’s Agenda at the Border
While Joe Biden has thus far been able to rely on his water carriers in the media to sell his immigration agenda to the public, the courts of law are a different playing field entirely.
Government Bloat Makes the Nation Less Secure
The Department of Homeland Security now deploys against ordinary Americans who pose no threat and seek only to exercise their constitutional rights, as real terrorists go unchecked.
This Horrible Fiasco Demands Change
The Biden Administration, after seven months, has shown no competence whatever in foreign or national security policy.
Chaos and Confusion in Kabul
It’s hard to explain our ongoing failure to effectively secure the safety of American citizens in Afghanistan—unless the administration has refused to authorize it.
Biden’s Weakness Will Result in Aggression
Biden’s rhetoric and proclaimed compassion is meaningless as bad actors pay attention to action. Biden’s incompetence has made the world a more dangerous place.
Remember What They Did to Daniel Pearl
Trump’s Afghanistan withdrawal plan was delayed; now we must pray that the remaining Americans don’t pay the ultimate price.
Lessons Never Learned
The establishment, having failed to win a counterinsurgency abroad and a culture war at home, opted to export the culture war and import the counterinsurgency.
Canary in the Coal Mine of America’s Future
The “melting pot” was never merely assimilation or simple surrender to the dominant type, as is popularly supposed.
The Rotten Edifice Revealed
In Afghanistan, the technocratic legitimacy of our administrative masters is being exploded.
The Long Shadow of Bush’s Bushwa
George W. Bush’s duplicity about crucial facts in 2001 made it impossible for Americans to properly understand the struggle against al-Qaeda, ISIS, the Taliban, and other Muslim groups.