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Politics may be downstream from culture, but culture is downstream from cribs. In the U.S. and across the West, who’s having children today will...


On Oct. 18, 2025 a second round of anti-Trump demonstrations under the banner “No Kings” occurred throughout the U.S., with several million...


History has taught one stubborn lesson: the page that ends the fighting is not the same as the page that ends the cause of fighting. Armistices,...


I began my career with Allegheny County Pretrial Services in April 2008. I was sworn in by a judge, issued a badge, and placed into a system built...


For my entire adult life, Americans have been sold the idea that allowing doctors to provide terminally ill patients intentionally deadly...


The Democratic Party has violated too many norms of American governance. During the Biden administration, they unleashed the Department of Justice...


The political assassination of Charlie Kirk continues to impact America. Charlie’s conservative nonprofit organization, Turning Point USA, has...


If you remember the wonderful Song of the South, Br'er Rabbit begs Br'er Fox not to throw him in the bramble bushes, knowing, which fox doesn’t,...


In recent years, former first lady Michelle Obama has embarked on several book tours. The first occurred in 2018 when she promoted her memoir,...


Several years ago, my husband Steve and I were watching TV as an American politician of Hispanic descent responded to a challenging question by an...


In a world increasingly shaped by fleeting trends and fractured relationships, the enduring beauty of the nuclear family stands as a quiet miracle....


From Wikimedia Commons: Rome, from the Vatican (J.M.W. Turner, 1820) The story of Christianity, from its birth in persecution to its global witness...


As a political Independent, I read and listen to the full spectrum of information from left to right before deciding what to support, what not to...


We have been through a lot, and we are going through a lot. Getting President Trump elected was a great gift, and he has, as expected, done amazing...


Knowledge that France is in a deep constitutional, financial, and political crisis is now widely recognized, not just within the country but far...


Zohran Mamdani, mayor-elect of New York City, quoted Eugene Debs in his acceptance speech last week. “The sun may have set over our city this...


With the fall harvest advancing toward completion across the nation’s breadbasket, early reports by the Department of Agriculture predict a record-...


“Assassination is the extreme form of censorship” – George Bernard Shaw “Politics makes estranged bedfellows” – Goodman Ace A nineteenth-century...


From Wikimedia Commons: Arab Horsemen Carrying Away Their Dead (Théodore Chassériau, 1850) Ten years have passed since the night of November 13,...


A CNBC headline read, “Democrats win big on election night in key races” while CBS reported, “Democrats sweep key races”. ABC says,...


While the German chancellor burns taxpayer money in the Amazon jungle to “save” the rainforests, his own advisor, Clemens Fuest, is warning of the...


Censorship used to be loud. Books were banned. Newspapers left blank spaces where articles once appeared. Speeches were shut down with police and...


Nearly 100 years ago, Ernest Hemingway wrote that a character went bankrupt “Gradually and then suddenly.” Likewise, the disparate impact...


Another day, another Democrat found to be involved in some sort of fraud. I don't think there's a single member of that entire party who speaks the...


After the 2024 election, there was a vast right-wing clamoring for an inevitable realignment favoring conservatives. Political gravity would force...


Referencing Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Trump deserves credit for being the man in the arena striving valiantly to restore American greatness, defend...


Starting next year, Republicans should campaign on two correlative issues: the social and political imperative of a thriving middle class --...


Should America’s constitutional republic ever fall, the most likely cause of death will be its corrupt institutions. When citizens lose faith in the...


“Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them ‘censorship’ and a violation of free speech and press.” —Goal No. 6, “45 Goals of...


Politicians like Zohran Mamdani like to boast that they, like Obama, are the prophets of change. In reality, they are puppets controlled by their...


For a period roughly coextensive with the Biden administration, the United States seemed to have transformed into a comprehensively ideological...


Social critic Rod Dreher lives in Budapest, Hungary, but was in Washington last week for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s meeting with...


I stopped counting the massive numbers of articles — both before and after the election of November 4, 2025 — that predicted the complete...


“Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice gives to virtue.” That’s an aphorism that has fallen into desuetude, along with the word “desuetude.”...


The nightmare descent of New York City under Mamdani rule has begun. Defunding the police, “free” services, and antisemitism are the tip of the...
