The government’s evidence about what it found during its raid on Mar-a-Lago may be contaminated and the case seems ready to implode.
The Vietnam Era Never Ended for Biden’s Party
The Democratic party only has papered over its contradictions ever since 1968. Today’s campus protests have ripped off the wrapper, and they’re forcing on Biden a choice he can’t, or won’t, make.
Columbia University’s Commencement Cowardice
Columbia’s decision to cancel its 2024 general commencement is a capitulation to all the worst elements of campus and global radicalism.
Delusion Is Killing the American Republic
More Americans are mentally ill than ever before. It’s no wonder we are seeing signs of it in our politics.
Recognizing the Enemy Within
John Frankenheimer’s “The Manchurian Candidate” illuminates timeless and timely truths about the relationship between freedom and authoritarianism, as well as the that between illusion and reality. It’s a perfect film for our times.
Confused Ivy League Presidents Should Look to the Sunshine State
America’s vaunted Ivy League has proven totally incapable of dealing with pro-Hamas protestors. They should learn from the balanced approach to free speech taken by Florida’s thriving universities.
How a U.S. Federal Government Default Might Play Out
The recent tax rebellion by the Canadian province of Saskatchewan may provide a model for how U.S. states could push back against a federal government that has spent far beyond its means.
The Case for Ben Carson and the Return of American Goodness
As the vice-presidential nominee, Dr. Ben Carson would benefit Donald Trump enormously—both personally and politically.
Bragg’s Prosecution Makes Trump a Martyr
It is difficult to imagine that Trump’s alleged dalliance with Stormy Daniels will be his undoing. If anything, this show trial may have been the thing he needed to remind America of his peculiar virtues.
‘Remember Us’: How to Fight Media Bombholing
A victim of media “bombholing” explains how the media drive their ratings and profits by publishing an unending series of wild, unsubstantiated stories, never stopping to correct the ones that came before.
Every State Is a Border State Now
The death of Jacques Price serves as a reminder of just how thoroughly our institutions have been turned against Americans at every level.
Trusting China in Inviting Another Pandemic
The U.S. should not be funding or collaborating to make the next China-created killer.
Election Fraud Is Real and Needs to Be Fixed Before 2024
When you turn on the TV on election night to watch the returns, you want to know the results are honest, whether your candidate wins or not.
Will There Always Be an England?
Recent events raise the question whether an England that has imported so many different peoples of the world is still recognizable.
War in the Democratic Party—and at the Opera
In art as in politics, liberals find wickedness only in our own institutions.
Restoring the Republic One Grandfather’s Desk at a Time
If we can shake off the faddish disorders of this chaotic age and once again embrace our foundational principles the soul of America will again be ordered and our republic restored.]
A Nation without Community Is a Nation without Value
Communal Americanism needs to make a return for the nation to survive. There is no other remedy.
‘The Whole Town’s Talking’ and Edward G. Robinson’s Case of Mistaken Identity
There isn’t one wasted moment in this tightly directed and acted 1935 John Ford screwball comedy featuring Edward G. Robinson and Jean Arthur.
Hamas is Israel’s Golem
Hamas is a golem, a monstrous creature from Jewish folklore created from mud and made animate, which escaped his master and turned against him.
Sanctuary Delusion Crumbles in Chicago
The experiment of sanctuary cities has gone on far too long and in Chicago, citizens are finally speaking up.
FBI and Justice Department Are Greatest Threat to Constitution
The Constitution was never intended to justify surveillance and political interference by un-elected bureaucrats.
American Jews Can’t Have It Both Ways
Many of those who are now screaming loudest about how badly the left is behaving, have the least right to complain.
Catholic Synod on Synodality Flames Out
The Catholic Church’s Synod on Synodality looks like a flop and may be the last gasp of the same failed approach that has destroyed the Protestant mainstream in the West.
Don’t Let Refugees Be Used as a Weapon
To many in the West, it seems puzzling that Palestinians don't migrate to other Arab countries. But those countries will not take them.
Losing Our American Minds
America is becoming an open-air insane asylum. Something about modern life is driving people crazy and nobody really knows what to do about it.
Constitutional Convention Would Open Pandora’s Box
Despite the increasing volume on both the right and the left of calls for a constitutional convention, the solution to our problems is not to change the Constitution or even throw it out, but to obey it.
Emboldened Global Jihad Is Final Nail in Coffin of Mass Migration Delusion
Open-borders dolts who have peddled the insane notion that "all cultures are equal" bear much of the blame for rising anti-Semitism.
Moral Reckoning in ‘The Masque of the Red Death’
Edgar Allen Poe’s famous short story is a memento mori reminding us that we must one day face our Creator.
Democrats’ Noncitizen Voting Scam
Across the country Democrats, like New York City Mayor Eric Adams, are pushing for the disaster of allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections.
The Conservative Double Standard for Collective Responsibility
Conservatives who condemn the Palestinians for voting Hamas into power don’t apply the same standard to American minorities who vote for Democrats.
Israel’s Lesson for 2024: A Liberal Crackup
The new New Left has the potential to spark a civil war among progressives, especially as causes like Black Lives Matter and anti-police policies entwine with "anti-colonial" and anti-Israel ideology.
Caring More for Palestine than East Palestine
Even in Ohio, it seems the activists motivated to get out in the streets are more concerned for people in faraway destinations than those in their own backyards.
Israel, Hamas, and the Death of Liberalism
The bill is coming due for the West’s complacency in believing in that its special inheritance is easily transferable to any and all who arrive from the Third World
The Ghost of Sherlock Holmes
In Sidney Lanfield’s 1939 production of The Hound of Baskervilles, we have a perfect ghostly reflection for spooky October viewing.
Steeped in Islamic Orthodoxy, Hamas Is Israel’s Permanent Enemy
It is necessary to be aware of the ambitions of political Islam and to harbor no illusions about its goals.
Why Henry Kissinger’s Epiphany on Border Security Matters
America desperately needs to exchange activist-inspired utopian thinking on immigration for a healthy dose of Kissinger-style realpolitik.
Down With Del Marxists
Elites who live in wealthy communities like Del Mar pose as revolutionaries and preach fellowship with the disenfranchised while holding America’s underclass in contempt.
Israel’s Strategic Dilemma
Israel will face an impossible strategic situation if it enters urban warfare in Gaza. Far from being a sign of weakness, exercising restraint in the face of Hamas’ provocations is the sound and politically profitable course of action.
Liberals’ Dilemma: Immigration or Israel?
American internationalism was shaped by the national origins of Americans themselves, so it’s not surprising it shifts with shifts in those origins.
The Faustian Bargain of Dorian Gray
Albert Lewin’s 1945 film, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is the perfect selection for this season of reflection about our mortality and the virtues we need to cultivate to make life worth living.
Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness … Unless Talking About Trump or His Foreign Policy
Too many very public Christians in politics seem to have a problem honoring the ninth commandment when it comes to Trump, his supporters, and their foreign policy preferences.
Why Bidenflation Defines Bidenomics
Bidenomics holds little hope of saving Biden, no matter what happens next.
Pursuing Ethnic Blocs Stupidly
In responses to the Hamas attacks, conservatives again demonstrate inept attempts to imitate the left’s shameful and divisive appeals to ethnic blocs. In abasing themselves to pursue special voting blocs, these conservatives adopt a bad principle and a clumsy and embarrassing strategy.
Shock and Awe by Hamas
This weekend’s unprecedented attack on Israel from Hamas exposes weaknesses in intelligence, fault lines in ongoing efforts to maintain stability and peace in the broader Middle East region, and potential dangers ahead for all parties.
It’s Time to Change Our Constitution
Conservative reluctance to change the Constitution cedes ground to the left and allows the progressive drift of the nation.
We Can’t Vote Ourselves Out of This: Organizing a Middle American Resistance
The American right needs a Middle American resistance united in its focus on internal secession and self-government, one that does not rely on national politics or bet on political saviors.
Biden’s Shameless Hypocrisy on Migrant Family Separations
Team Biden is going to great lengths to conceal data on the high and growing number of family separations occurring at America’s southern border, which have resulted from their bad policy and are happening on their watch.
Gaetz’s Rebellion Against McCarthy Is a Rational Response to the Fiscal Emergency
The historic rebellion of Congressman Matt Gaetz and other Republican fiscal hawks against their own House leadership was a necessary move in the face of a financial crisis in the making.
Oh, Canada!
Canada’s government and its premier, Justin Trudeau, betray their true nature in the blunders of the past few weeks.
Will Gavin Newsom Copy Trump?
Gavin Newsom now assumes the same role within his party that Donald Trump assumed within the GOP back in 2015. It remains to be seen how closely this charismatic deal maker will follow the Trump game plan.