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Indulging Extremism Is a Bad Sign for Ukraine

A couple of news stories that establish an ominous pattern if you're reading the prospects for Ukraine. From Politico Europe: Polish President...

yesterday 1

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Judge Bars Trustees from Adding Trump’s Name to Kennedy Center

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...

yesterday 2

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Andrew C. Mccarthy

Things Are Looking Good at George Mason

For the latter half of 2025, I was outside counsel to the George Mason University Board of Visitors as it came under multiple federal...

yesterday 2

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Michael A. Fragoso

Thoughts on the ‘Hacks’ Dramatic Series Finale

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...

yesterday 3

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Wesley J. Smith

So Sorry, It’s Not ‘Your’ NHS, Gents

“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...

yesterday 2

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Andrew Stuttaford

Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’

A federal court in Alexandria, Va., has issued an injunction against the Trump administration’s establishment of the so-called Anti-Weaponization...

yesterday 3

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Andrew C. Mccarthy

Jill Biden Has a Few More Lies to Tell You

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...

yesterday 2

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Jim Geraghty

The Wild West of the Online Abortion Pill Business

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...

yesterday 1

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

The Mob’s Candidate

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani upended Democratic expectations this week when he abandoned his pledge to endorse longtime congressman and Hispanic...

yesterday 2

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Noah Rothman

For Many Students, Education is an Afterthought

For many young Americans, schooling and credentials matter, but actual education is an afterthought. They have many other things they’d rather do...

yesterday 3

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George Leef

Ignoring the Voters Will End Badly

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...

previous day 1

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Dan Mclaughlin

South Korean Fertility Went . . . Up?

South Korea has been the poster child for worldwide terminal fertility rates. Rates are going down, pretty fast, everywhere and they’ve been doing...

previous day 3

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Suddenly NATO’s Baltic Allies Are the Center of Attention

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...

previous day 4

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Jim Geraghty

Why Have Young Americans Cooled on College Degrees?

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...

previous day 2

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George Leef

Armageddon Approaches for Many Colleges

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...

wednesday 9

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George Leef

Final Thoughts on the Texas Senate: I Don’t Have to Like Either Paxton or Talarico

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...

wednesday 3

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Jeffrey Blehar

A Democratic House Candidate’s Minor, Long-Ago Work for an al-Qaeda Front

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...

wednesday 5

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Jim Geraghty

Trump on Paxton and the Iran ‘Conflict’

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...

wednesday 7

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Andrew C. Mccarthy

Pressure: Competent Men Get Their Due

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,...

wednesday 4

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Giancarlo Sopo

When Not to Hedge on ‘Antisemitism’

The editor’s impulse to properly attribute accusations in print is understandable for legal and ethical reasons. I’m fastidious about this myself....

wednesday 4

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Judson Berger

An Anti-Communist Film Festival William F. Buckley Would Heartily Embrace

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...

wednesday 5

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John Fund

Reading Around

Jonathan Chait on the antitrust obsessives remaking the Democratic party. Brian Albrecht on the failure of those obsessives’ theories. Yuval Levin...

wednesday 6

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Comey Trial Postponed to October

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...

wednesday 4

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Andrew C. Mccarthy

The Case for JD Vance to Run

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...

wednesday 4

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Noah Rothman

Texas Republicans Roll the Dice with Paxton

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...

26.05.2026 4

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Jeffrey Blehar

Earning More, Spending It Faster

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...

26.05.2026 3

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

The Ozempic Shift Moves On

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...

26.05.2026 4

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Andrew Stuttaford

We’re Becoming Inured to Assassination Attempts

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...

26.05.2026 3

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Disagree with Your Professor!

The Heterodox Academy Campus Chapter at Stanford University recently hosted an in-person event titled “Disagree with a Professor,” which provided...

26.05.2026 4

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Abigail Anthony 

Will Pratt Make Hollywood Outsourcing a Plank of His Campaign?

Spencer Pratt has done a lot of work calling out Los Angeles government for its failures in the wildfires that devastated Altadena and Pasadena...

26.05.2026 5

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

How to Leverage a Riot

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...

26.05.2026 9

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Noah Rothman

God and Man on Artificial Intelligence

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...

26.05.2026 5

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Kraków’s Voters Push Back Against New Urbanism

Some voters have successfully pushed back against the bossiness of the new urbanists, the green technocrats enthused by 15-minute cities, bike lanes,...

26.05.2026 6

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Andrew Stuttaford

The Case for JD Vance to Wait

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....

26.05.2026 6

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Philip Klein

Students Who Protest Before They’ve Heard the Speaker

Many of our college students these days are so certain of their moral rectitude that they protest campus speakers before having heard what the...

26.05.2026 6

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George Leef

NPR Reports Democratic Candidates Are Downplaying Abortion

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...

26.05.2026 7

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Michael J. New

The Well-Funded Online Influence Network Pushing Graham Platner

The phrase “it’s an op” – meaning an influence operation – is often, though not always, a marker of paranoia, a tendency towards conspiracy...

26.05.2026 7

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Jim Geraghty

Judgment Night Is upon Us in Texas

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...

26.05.2026 7

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Jeffrey Blehar

Bioethicists: ‘Terminally Sedate’ People Committing Suicide by Self-Starvation

In a newly released paper in the prestigious journal Bioethics, three prominent bioethicists argue that when someone decides to commit suicide via...

25.05.2026 10

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Wesley J. Smith

A Few Things About Magnifica Humanitas That Caught My Eye

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...

25.05.2026 6

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Three Year College Degrees — Pro and Con

For more than a century, American students interested in post-secondary education had a choice between the good old bachelor’s degree, which took...

25.05.2026 6

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George Leef

Leo Leads on Artificial Intelligence: Wisdom, Challenge, Women & Other Takeaways from Magnifica Humanitas

Artificial intelligence cannot and will not do better than St. Francis of Assisi. This was unsurprisingly confirmed at a Vatican press conference this...

25.05.2026 6

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Honoring the Dead at Shiloh

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...

24.05.2026 8

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Luther Ray Abel

More Lighting, Less Crime. But . . .

Writing in The Atlantic, Elizabeth Glazer, a former federal prosecutor and adviser on public safety, notes how a piece of common sense — that...

24.05.2026 7

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Andrew Stuttaford

An Autopsy on an Autopsy

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...

23.05.2026 10

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Ramesh Ponnuru

AI and the Regulatory Superpower

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...

23.05.2026 10

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Andrew Stuttaford

The DNC’s Disastrous Report

The Democratic National Committee released its long-awaited “autopsy” this week on the 2024 presidential election, generating all manner of...

22.05.2026 9

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Nr Staff

Campus Intellectuals Prefer the Iranian Mullahs to America

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...

22.05.2026 7

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George Leef

Grab Your Financial Stake in America’s Decline While You Can

The Wall Street Journal published an immensely troubling dispatch on Thursday exposing how cryptocurrency networks — specifically, the formerly...

22.05.2026 10

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Noah Rothman

Kyle Busch, R.I.P.

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...

22.05.2026 6

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Jennifer Tiedemann, Opinion Contributor