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In recent years, editors of medical, science, and bioethics journals have proclaimed almost every major societal problem to be a “health...
A very cool publishing note: Frequent National Review contributor Mary Eberstadt is publishing a comic novel, The Washington Zoo. ...
Walk with me, for a moment, through a mostly forgotten bit of pop-culture ephemera that has something to say to the present. The 2010 science-fiction...
My defense of the filibuster today was partly prompted by this thoughtful post by my friend Mark Strand, a longtime supporter of the filibuster who...
I’m not a fan of the tariffs that Noah criticizes in this post, or of the Iran war he absolves from blame for “sluggish hiring.” But does the...
Ramesh responds to my case for restoring the filibuster to its traditional rules: Whether we should have a filibuster, and if so whether we should...
In a few states, schools and programs focused on teaching civics have arisen, giving students an alternative to the steady drumbeat of America-bashing...
“US employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs amid strain from the Iran war,” said one headline that exemplified what seems to be the consensus in...
TV personality Mike Rowe has real street cred when it comes to the working class that Democratic Socialists claim they represent. As host of Dirty...
Ramesh Ponnuru has a great column in the Washington Post about why the Senate should not eliminate the filibuster as a political check on shallow and...
Media outlets are reporting that Stanford scientists used AI to create an artificial virus. From the Wall Street Journal story:...
. . . to stop talking about the issue that clearly animates him most.
Many who reject progressive ideology embrace the concept of great books education as a counter to the leftist project of getting students to hate our...
I take up the question at the Washington Post. For decades, the United States has been moving away from the version of Congress in which the...
Being at a Final Profession Mass for the Sisters of Life is like entering into heaven for just a moment. (Sisters becoming Sisters of Life for life.)...
Every once in a while, I have a moment where I am kinda sorta on the same page as Jessica Valenti, who has the “Abortion, Every Day” Substack....
Despite what RFK Jr. says, mRNA-based vaccines have the potential to be groundbreaking. It came as a pleasant surprise this morning to see that one...
On the burgeoning burrito discourse, Jim Geraghty asks, "Why is food more expensive?" since the pandemic. A wide variety of reasons. Eggs...
Navigator Research has released a new poll. It features answers from 1,500 likely 2026 voters, across 67 competitive congressional districts. Among...
It’s pretty bleak out there. But if you’re looking for a sliver of hope, it seems that a critical mass of Democrats understand that most Americans...
On X, there's been a considerable debate about the cost of living and whether burritos really cost $20. One of our TPUSA college students gave me...
The Government Accountability Office (which is within the legislative branch, not the executive, thank goodness) has a solid report out today,...
Americans’ approval of the job the U.S. Supreme Court is doing has fallen to a record low of 33%, driven by a steep drop in Republicans’ backing...
In the wake of the surprise slugfest that Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary turned out to be — with DSA-affiliated Abdul El-Sayed edging out...
Most students these days are tempted to use artificial intelligence to do their work for them, merely cutting and pasting what they see on their...
Russia's latest (as of the time of writing) mass attack on Kyiv was a brutal reminder of the consequences of Ukraine’s lack of anti-ballistic...
Now that Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed will be making the charge of Israeli genocide a centerpiece of the midterms, it’s helpful to have...
So, that was exciting, was it not? The Michigan primaries are over, and it was admittedly hugely entertaining to watch the madness unfold last night:...
I will try to get through this calmly. Thomas Kean Jr. is a Republican congressman running for reelection in a highly affluent New Jersey...
I wrote the other day about the concern that Europe’s LNG (liquefied natural gas) reserves are lower than they should be at this time of year:...
Say what you will about Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but he definitely cares about ensuring that organ transplant...
I do not have a whole lot more light to shed on the common good debate, but I think I owe Michael Brendan Dougherty and our readers a short reply to...
Wesley J. Smith aptly exposed the absurdity of Anthony Conwright's essay in the New York Times denouncing the use of "Civil War" to...
That Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan Democratic primary for Senate by (at this writing) less than a point, after the last five polls in the race all...
Detroit — Throughout Abdul El-Sayed's campaign, he repeated these three taglines: "Medicare for all," "Money out of...
“I have not heard one single tangible policy from the other side,” Missouri Congressman Wesley Bell (D.) told his supporters on Tuesday night....
Leftist streamer Hasan Piker told National Review that he thinks socialism is the “real America first” movement as he attended a primary victory...
Yesterday, Amy Walter, Editor-in-Chief, Cook Political Report and former editor of National Journal’s Hotline, suggested that this year’s midterm...
Assisted suicide is law here -- officially beginning to be implemented today, August 5 -- in New York State. You’ve likely heard by now about...
In yet another post (of several) trying to end the debate about the common good simply by reasserting that the people who are credited with...
Stop me if this sounds familiar. Late last month, a police officer in Madison, Wis., was attacked by a knife-wielding man who was resisting arrest....
“Today is August 4, 2026 . . . in the city of Allendale, California.” Over 75 years after Ray Bradbury first published his science fiction short...
Yes, yes, American politicians talk about the scourge of higher prices. Only yesterday, Elizabeth Warren Donald Trump was on the warpath about the...
Granular observers can probably distinguish between the left’s objections to this Trump construction project and that. But the layperson — i.e.,...
The stock market just keeps roaring ahead, as if the country and the global economic outlook were much more bullish than they are. A major reason is...
Enough time has passed for a conclusion: Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, and there is essentially nothing we can do about it. No new deal, no...
AI should lead policymakers to reduce taxes on capital income and corporate income, not to increase them. This is a minority view. A few weeks ago,...
It's not just the self-identified socialists who aim openly to destroy the American constitutional system of government. And the evidence of this...
Insult a company enough, tax a company enough, inhibit a company’s business enough, and it will go. BP, a pioneer in offshore oil production, has...
I hate the fact that whenever one writes something about antisemitism, it almost immediately becomes timely. A kosher restaurant in Montreal, Canada,...