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Politics
How Democrats Stay Woke and Win in 2028
After Donald Trump’s victory in November 2024, two important questions cropped up. The first, “how will Trump govern?” is in…
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Unyielding
L’affaire Epstein: Godsend to the Woke
When the war against Iran barged onto center stage, all things Epstein quietly slipped behind the curtain. But that sleazy…
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Unyielding
Who Truly Cares About Epstein’s Girls? Not the Press, Congress or Social Media
The wave that is the Jeffrey Epstein saga crested this year. As much as I hate to admit the fact,…
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Politics
Democrats in Search of the Elusive Pink Panther
It reminds me of Inspector Clouseau – the old Peter Sellers character who fancied himself a super sleuth but was…
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Law and Government
Yes, Even the President
A salient feature of the “debate” about the sexes is the stark difference in how we treat males and females…
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Unyielding
Trump and the Canadians
No one ever said democracy is perfect. Majorities can screw up governance almost as easily as can elites. But still,…
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Politics
Progress on Race?
The election of Donald Trump signifies many things, some of them obvious, some less so and a few cause for…
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Media
Four More Years: the Future of the U.S. News Media
Ah, friends, we live in perilous times. Adolf Hitler bestrides the political landscape like a colossus, the rule of racism…
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Law and Government
A Gathering Storm
Donald Trump thrives on conflict. I doubt he’d even get out of bed in the morning if he didn’t have…
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Politics
An Unambiguously Good Thing: Americans Assert American Values
Every four years, after the presidential election, the opinions start to flow, gather strength and sheer volume and finally inundate…
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Politics
Trump Thrashes the MSM
Tuesday night’s results mean a million different things all of which will be considered ad nauseam in the coming weeks…
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Sports and Culture
A Tale of Two Cites
My first citation is to a Wall Street Journal article about the increasing aimlessness, lack of motivation and sense of…
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Law and Government
Declining Trust; Popular Unrest
Did it ever occur to them that better policies might have produced better societies and a governed populace less prone…
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Foreign Affairs
Censorship: A Rich French Tradition
Ah, tradition! Isn’t it grand? I refer to two recent events – the warning by French EU commissioner Thierry Breton…
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Media
Positive Masculinity: It’s All Around Us
Just two weeks ago, I posted a piece on the growing divide between journalists and the general public. More and…
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Media
Whither the College-Educated Mind?
Rarely is the question asked – is our children learning? – President George W. Bush The overwhelming majority of today’s…
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Foreign Affairs
A Captain-less Ship in Perilous Waters
When Israel assassinated seven Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Damascus last March, Iran immediately announced its intention to seriously respond. But…
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Politics
Living the Post-Truth Dream
Post-modernism was once just the obsession of obscure college professors whom no one outside of academia – and few within…
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Education
No, We are not Germany in the 1920s
Last December, historian and Hoover Institute Fellow, Niall Ferguson penned a piece in The Free Press about what he sees…
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Politics
The Rubicon: A River in Manhattan
We’ve finally crossed our Rubicon. Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony charges by a Manhattan jury is a turning point…
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Law and Government
Justin Trudeau Tears Off the Mask
The inherently fascistic nature of contemporary progressive ideology is no secret. Its antipathy for basic individual rights has long been…
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Social Issues
I Told You So, Part 2
Another trumpet blare shaking the walls of the woke edifice is the Cass Report, published within the last two weeks…
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Media
I Told You So.
I hate to say ‘I told you so,’ but I did. I told Uri Berliner too. Berliner laid waste to…
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Social Issues
In Limbo
Sitting here in limbo Waiting for the tide to flow. – Jimmy Cliff Amid the furor of public discourse that…
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Education
For the Woke, the Craziness is the Point
The deep craziness of the woke and woke ideology is well known. (Here are a couple of recent examples, laid…
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Law and Government
Radical Feminists, Science and the Rule of Law
With all the extreme craziness in the world a lot gets obscured. That’s particularly true of the older, better-established craziness…
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Unyielding
No Surprise: Liberal Elites Don’t Think Like the Rest of Us
This comes as no surprise; it corroborates what we’ve long known. It’s a survey Scott Rasmussen conducted for the Committee…
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Politics
Trump at the Heart of Populism
So, Trump won in Iowa and New Hampshire. We knew he would. Much of the corporate press relentlessly urged the…
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Education
L’affaire Claudine Gay: Another Milestone Passed
I didn’t think I’d do a piece on l’affaire Claudine Gay, but I’ve decided it’s too important to ignore. I…
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Foreign Affairs
A Desolation that None Call Peace
They make a desolation and call it peace. – Tacitus Shortly after the October 7th invasion of Israel by Hamas…
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Law and Government
A Travesty in Colorado
As the world now knows, the Supreme Court of Colorado has ruled that Donald Trump’s name may not appear on…
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Foreign Affairs
The Continuing Rejection of Elite Policies
On his Substack page, veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has an amazing piece. The gist is that the two top…
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Social Issues
A Cockeyed Optimist Reports
I may be a cockeyed optimist (ha!), but I (and others) see a powerful and growing response to woke doctrines…
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Foreign Affairs
I Pure and Thou Evil
One of the salient features of commentary on the Israeli-Palestinian issue is the absolute refusal by either side to acknowledge…
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Social Issues
‘The Two-Parent Privilege’: A Leftist’s Encounter with the Facts of Child Well-being
For well over a decade, I’ve argued that family breakdown is the single greatest social problem we in the U.S.…
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Social Issues
Our Gendered World, Where Inequality = Equality
The U.S. Open Tennis Tournament is over. I watched a number of matches; the virtuosity on display was amazing. But…
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