Trump Is a Patriot, Not a Nationalist-Populist
Ever since Donald Trump ascended to the presidency, confused members of the media have been trying to come to grips with their inability to understand […]
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Trump’s Triumph at the U.N.
President Trump’s speech at the United Nations on Tuesday is one of the greatest political speeches ever delivered in peacetime. Maybe you are like those […]
Walter Mitty at the Negotiating Table
Every administration seeks a legacy, and as Obama Administration legacy items go, it’s doesn’t get much more legacy than the Iran deal. It was supposed […]
Yes, the Mainstream Media Is the Enemy
If you are aiding, abetting, and protecting a saboteur who has infiltrated the highest echelon of the American government, then you are, in the words […]
Is Trump’s Cabinet Undermining His Agenda?
Bob Woodward’s new book, Fear: Trump in the White House, has exposed something constitutional scholars might, at best, call outright insubordination. At worst, it amounts […]
Take Salena Zito Seriously and Literally
Intramural food fights about journalistic practices normally don’t attract my attention. The journalists I know, right and left, have their biases but are mostly honest […]
Burying the Dead With Bile-Filled Histrionics
The big news last week revolved around the funerals of a 1960s pop singer and an unreliable Republican senator with a cult following among masochistic […]
Trump the Politician
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.” So said Polonius, one of the most famous political advisors in the Shakespearean canon. If Polonius, […]
11 Reasons Why Custer Would Wear a MAGA Hat Today
Having just written a book that imagines George Armstrong Custer surviving the Battle of the Little Bighorn to become a gun-slinging Western do-gooder under the […]
Farewell to the ‘Conservative Movement’
The #NeverTrumpumpkins define themselves by their visceral distaste for the president. He offends their fastidious sensibilities, outrages them with his unfiltered Twitter musings, and violates […]
Will Jim Jordan Bring Trump-Style Attitude to Speakership?
During a campaign rally in suburban Columbus last Saturday, President Trump invited Rep. Jim Jordan to the stage. “How great is he?” Trump asked the […]
The Ancient War Between the Press and the President
The ancient war between the press and the president Tribune Content Agency — August 8, 2018 By Victor Davis Hanson, Tribune Content Agency The media […]
Mika’s Right—Somebody’s Coming Unhinged
Feelings of impotence often lead to rage. Witness the recent escalation of the rhetoric directed at the president from the anti-Trump media. As the president’s […]
The University of Virginia Comes Up Short
Recently, a senior aide to the Trump Administration named Marc Short left the White House. The reasons for his resignation were not obscure. According to […]
The Federalist Capers: The Twilight of Obamacare
The absurd debacle known as Obamacare is not something about which I normally write. However, like a secret vice, I maintain a fascination with federalism […]
The Lies at the Heart of the Mueller Indictments
So far, the reporting on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s July 13 indictments of 12 Russians mostly can be divided into two categories. First, we have […]
Trump, Russia, and Manufactured Hysteria
It’s been a week filled with manufactured hysteria. After his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, President Trump was accused of denying American […]
The High Crimes of the New York Times
The deluge of outrage that followed this week’s Helsinki summit was as predictable as it was impotent, but one philippic stood out. New York Times […]
Trump Must Navigate in a Wilderness of Mirrors
So the Straight Arrow has now gone and indicted a dozen members of the Russian military intelligence service, the GRU, on charges relating to—stop me […]
Coming to Some Reality on Crimea
As President Trump sits down for his first one on one meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, some history and perspective are in order. […]