Putin and Russia Through an Orthodox Lens
America has been in the grips of Russia hysteria for over two years now, and it hitting a fever pitch this past week following President […]
The Culture
Just How Far Will the Left Go?
There was no honeymoon for the unlikely winner of the 2016 election. Progressives have in succession tried to sue to overturn Trump’s victory using several […]
Our Slave Heritage
Every day of the week, marriage counselors work with unhappy couples whose relationships have been soured by unresolved grievances. In such cases, the counselor’s job […]
Who’s Winning the Culture Wars Now?
On May 6, 2016, as the run-up to the struggle between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton for the presidency began in earnest, one of the […]
Deport the Deplorables?
Deport the Deplorables is a slogan of popular culture, found on bumper stickers, t-shirts, and internet postings. But now the mini-industry of deplorable/deportable sloganeering has […]
Immigrants Change Cultures, For Good and Ill
The most frequently used description of America by those who advocate for large numbers of immigrants—those here legally or illegally—is “America is a nation of […]
NATO Now Serves the Interests of the Transatlantic Ruling Class
If we’re to believe the recent NATO summit’s communique and the mainstream media’s commentaries about it, the alliance serves roughly the same essential purpose today […]
Deploy Good Humor to Defeat the Left
In 2016, the pollster prophets, after examining the innards of a statistically significant sample of free-range chickens sacrificed under a full moon, asserted that Hillary […]
Peter Strzok’s Affair is a National Security Crisis
FBI agent Peter Strzok held one of the most important national security positions in the entire bloated federal government. Strzok was the chief of the […]
Saving the American Dream
It was winter and the streets of Vienna were covered with snow. The plows were busy for most of the night, and I watched them […]
What the Health of the Body Politic Needs Now
Our body politic operates much like our own bodies, alternating between different levels of awareness and activity as it experiences and responds to stimuli. The […]
‘Nazi’ ‘Hunters’ Distract from the Socialist Threat
If, like most reasonable people, you think the wisest thing to do when assured there is no real Nazi threat in America is to breathe […]
Over in a Barrel, Democrats Hurtle Toward the Rocks Below
A few months ago, the Democrat-Media Complex was brimming with bravado: this fall’s congressional elections, the story went, were sure to rebuke the gauche interloper […]
NeverTrump Bait and Switch: They Hate the Ideas, Not the Man
Michael Gerson, President George W. Bush’s head speechwriter, paid me the ultimate writer’s compliment last week: he attacked me in print. I count Michael as […]
Refighting the Indian Wars
Did you hear about how Facebook censored a passage from the Declaration of Independence as “hate speech”? The Vindicator, a small daily newspaper in Liberty, […]
Making American Jews Right Again
In his book Why Are Jews Liberals, Norman Podhoretz described a “Torah of Liberalism” as the guiding political philosophy of contemporary American Jews. Lacking religious […]
Free Speech Showdown in Dixon, California
July is the first “Straight Pride American Month” (SPAM) by proclamation of Ted Hickman, vice mayor of Dixon, California, a town of some 18,000 a […]
The Last Gasp of the “But Gorsuch!” Hacks
Famous last words, NeverTrumpers. With the retirement of Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy—the Reagan Administration’s third choice to fill the empty seat of Associate Justice Lewis […]
Resisting the Instinctive ‘Conservative’ Impulse on Roe v. Wade
When Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the Supreme Court, the logical response would have been a series of reflections about his dominant role […]
Putting Crime—and the Left—on Ice
A young man is thrown into a jail cell full of haggard prisoners. They are sitting on benches around a central bucket that serves as […]