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A couple of news stories that establish an ominous pattern if you're reading the prospects for Ukraine. From Politico Europe: Polish President...
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled that President Trump and the board of trustees he installed may not rename the John F. Kennedy Center...
For the latter half of 2025, I was outside counsel to the George Mason University Board of Visitors as it came under multiple federal...
I am being asked for my thoughts about the Hacks series finale. I don’t want to spoil the last episode for people who haven’t seen it yet. But the...
“Our” NHS, the envy of the world, etc., may be on the edge of taking a step that, if approved, will act as a deadly reminder of how brutal health...
A federal court in Alexandria, Va., has issued an injunction against the Trump administration’s establishment of the so-called Anti-Weaponization...
Former first lady Jill Biden told CBS Sunday Morning that she never, ever saw any signs of her husband falling into cognitive decline, and even...
Here’s a new conversation I had with Dr. Ingrid Skop, an OB-GYN associated with the Charlotte Lozier Institute. She talks about their new report on...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani upended Democratic expectations this week when he abandoned his pledge to endorse longtime congressman and Hispanic...
For many young Americans, schooling and credentials matter, but actual education is an afterthought. They have many other things they’d rather do...
Let’s consider a list of some of the things Donald Trump and his administration have been in the news for recently: The massive $1.776 billion...
South Korea has been the poster child for worldwide terminal fertility rates. Rates are going down, pretty fast, everywhere and they’ve been doing...
The Morning Jolt, from Riga, Lativa, back on May 14: If you compiled a list of the countries that are most likely to get invaded by a hostile force in...
It wasn’t long ago that most young Americans automatically went to college. Not going to college was regarded as a stigma and a guarantee of...
It wasn't so many years ago that higher education was a growth industry. Going to college was an expectation among most American students, and...
Ken Paxton has defeated incumbent John Cornyn for the GOP nomination in the Texas Senate race, and of course the real tragedy is personal: My many...
You might be asking, what could be worse than a Senate candidate with a Nazi tattoo? How about, a House candidate who did some work for al-Qaeda? Adam...
At his cabinet meeting today, President Trump had some bracing things to say about the Iran war, which, he noted, he calls a “conflict” — at...
The first face that Pressure shows you belongs to a young man who is drowning in the surf at Slapton Sands. It is April 1944, and on a Devon beach,...
The editor’s impulse to properly attribute accusations in print is understandable for legal and ethical reasons. I’m fastidious about this myself....
A few months before his death, National Review’s founder William F. Buckley devoted an entire column to what he called “the best movie I ever...
Jonathan Chait on the antitrust obsessives remaking the Democratic party. Brian Albrecht on the failure of those obsessives’ theories. Yuval Levin...
I don’t believe former FBI Director James Comey will ever be tried on the Trump Justice Department’s inane charges that he threatened to kill the...
I agree with Phil and Dan: JD Vance will run for president in 2028, and he’ll do so while dragging the Trump administration’s baggage along with...
There isn’t much more to add to tonight’s Texas GOP Senate primary, not after the reams of text already written here about the implication of...
I missed it last week, but the Wall Street Journal had a nice column explaining the felt “squeeze” in a middle class that is earning more than...
Two recent news items are a reminder that, for want of a better term, the “Ozempic shift” continues. In the last year or so, we seem to be seeing...
You might have missed it, but someone else decided to fire a hail of bullets at the White House. Freddy Gray writes in The Spectator on America’s...
The Heterodox Academy Campus Chapter at Stanford University recently hosted an in-person event titled “Disagree with a Professor,” which provided...
Spencer Pratt has done a lot of work calling out Los Angeles government for its failures in the wildfires that devastated Altadena and Pasadena...
New Jersey Democrats got the headline they wanted, even if the treatment they endured to get it was far from ideal. New Jersey Senator Andy Kim “was...
I would love to read a Bill Buckley column about Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical. Alas, I went for the next best thing. I...
Some voters have successfully pushed back against the bossiness of the new urbanists, the green technocrats enthused by 15-minute cities, bike lanes,...
Over the weekend, we got the latest periodic story citing anonymous sources as claiming Vice President J.D. Vance won’t run for president in 2028....
Many of our college students these days are so certain of their moral rectitude that they protest campus speakers before having heard what the...
Late last week, NPR ran a story about how Democrats are downplaying abortion as a policy issue during the 2026 election cycle. The article discussed...
The phrase “it’s an op” – meaning an influence operation – is often, though not always, a marker of paranoia, a tendency towards conspiracy...
It’s Tuesday, it’s primary season, and Memorial Day was only yesterday. So you know what that means: It’s time to haul another incumbent...
In a newly released paper in the prestigious journal Bioethics, three prominent bioethicists argue that when someone decides to commit suicide via...
Don’t worry, I’m not bringing back the old “Caught My Eye” feature. You have to listen to The Catholic Channel on Sirius XM for that. Just...
For more than a century, American students interested in post-secondary education had a choice between the good old bachelor’s degree, which took...
Artificial intelligence cannot and will not do better than St. Francis of Assisi. This was unsurprisingly confirmed at a Vatican press conference this...
Happy Memorial Day. May it be equal parts reflective and joyful. In that vein, Charlie and I, while on the road for a confidential project, had the...
Writing in The Atlantic, Elizabeth Glazer, a former federal prosecutor and adviser on public safety, notes how a piece of common sense — that...
I read the DNC report and wrote about it. High inflation harmed the Democratic Party more than any other issue in 2024. In a just-released...
Christophe Fouquet is the CEO of ASML, a Dutch company that makes machines that make semiconductors. And when it comes to the world’s smallest (and...
The Democratic National Committee released its long-awaited “autopsy” this week on the 2024 presidential election, generating all manner of...
Azar Nafisi, an expatriate Iranian author, dared to have a mind of her own in a country where the law demanded that she conform to official...
The Wall Street Journal published an immensely troubling dispatch on Thursday exposing how cryptocurrency networks — specifically, the formerly...
Going into one of the biggest auto-racing weekends of the entire year — both the Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600 are Memorial Day...