menu_open Columnists
Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry

New York Post

We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

How San Francisco is licking crime — and offering hope forAmerica

Unlike some of the city’s other adventures, this one is actually working out.

yesterday 10

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Why Trump’s huge $1.5T defense budget is worth every penny

It reflects a correct assessment of what should be the federal government’s priority — not funding social services, but providing for the common...

07.04.2026 10

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Why the Artemis II mission is exciting everyone so much

BBC science editor Rebecca Morelle, who was covering the launch of Artemis II, couldn’t contain her enthusiasm when the first plumes of smoke spread...

04.04.2026 10

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Gulf states’ Iran battle scars push them closer to Trump — and Israel

There’s no insurance policy against having a fanatic millenarian state as a neighbor.

31.03.2026 20

New York Post

Rich Lowry

What Jimmy Kimmel gets wrong about ‘plumbers’ like Markwayne Mullin

The late-night host took a shot at newly confirmed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, who used to run a plumbing business.

27.03.2026 7

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Why rescuing Christopher Columbus redeems America, too

Happy ending: An act of destruction seeking to change our public landscape and the story we tell about ourselves has been resisted and reversed.

23.03.2026 10

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Nobody owns Donald Trump — including his Israel-hating ex-allies

We have never had a president who is so thoroughly his own man as Donald Trump.

19.03.2026 10

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Why freeing the Strait of Hormuz is America’s burden to bear

Guarding the safe passage of commerce has been a core Anglo-American commitment for a couple of centuries, so this fight is on us.

17.03.2026 20

New York Post

Rich Lowry

I Love America, but . . .

. . . that call to end the game last night was a total disgrace. To have a Dominican hitter, Geraldo Perdomo, fight one of the best relievers in...

16.03.2026 10

National Review

Rich Lowry

Damn Strait

This, from the New York Times, captures the problem with the Strait of Hormuz in a nutshell: At a meeting in the Oval Office last week, a frustrated...

16.03.2026 10

National Review

Rich Lowry

Dire Strait

The CNN report the other day that the administration didn’t properly plan for a closure of the Strait of Hormuz has come in for heavy criticism. My...

14.03.2026 10

National Review

Rich Lowry

Trump is obliterating Obama’s Iran-appeasement plan — to America’s benefit

But perhaps no Trump undertaking runs so directly counter to Obama’s approach than the Iran War.

13.03.2026 10

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Mamdani gets mugged by reality — after ISIS bombers target NYC

The mayor’s narrative of Islamic victimhood runs so deep that it's presumably hard for him to process that two Muslim men were more hateful than...

09.03.2026 20

New York Post

Rich Lowry

‘Self-serving glory hound’ Kristi Noem got the heave-ho she deserved

Incompetent and preposterously self-promoting, Noem took a serious role and made it like something out of the HBO political spoof “Veep.”

05.03.2026 10

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Bring on the Golden Dome — with Iran war, the age of missile defense is here

The conflict with Iran is putting US and Israeli missile defenses to the ultimate test.

03.03.2026 10

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Candace Owens hits new low with ‘depraved’ Erika Kirk conspiracy madness

It’s impossible to discredit Candace Owens — because she's not in the credibility business to begin with.

27.02.2026 20

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Patriotism and its enemies — the Jack Hughes-Eileen Gu Olympics debate

The Olympics bring athletes around the world together, but the Games themselves are testament to the enduring power of patriotism.

25.02.2026 50

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Amid Olympics, new documentary recalls America’s Miracle on Ice — and what ‘The Boys of ‘80’ won for red, white and blue

Amid this year’s Winter Olympics, Netflix's new documentary, “Miracle: The Boys of ’80,” recalls the victory of the gold-medal-winning US...

19.02.2026 70

New York Post

Rich Lowry

AOC’s ignorant slam of Marco Rubio’s Munich speech proves she’ll never be ready for prime time

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did a star turn at the Munich Security Conference, and her appearances went about as well as you’d expect of a celebrity...

17.02.2026 1000

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Olympian Eileen Gu’s decision to snub US and ski for China is nothing short of a hypocrisy

It isn’t easy being Eileen Gu.

13.02.2026 80

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl 2026 halftime show made history — in all the wrong ways

For the first time ever, the NFL gave its stage to a performer who sought to put the country in its place.

11.02.2026 50

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Virginia Democrats aim to ‘protect’ democracy — by screwing voters

Virginia is the new Illinois. Democrats there are moving to go from a congressional delegation with six Democrats and five Republicans — broadly...

07.02.2026 50

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Billie Eilish was just doing her job as a pop star – showing ignorance on US history

Billie Eilish can be forgiven for being thoughtless — as a pop star, it’s practically part of her job description, but her anti-ICE declaration at...

04.02.2026 70

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Alex Pretti was no protester — here’s who bears blame for his death

If Alex Pretti was an “observer,” in the euphemism preferred by anti-ICE politicians and activists, he was observing how much unhinged behavior he...

30.01.2026 200

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Tim Walz, ICE and Thomas Jefferson’s very WORST idea

Minnesota's Gov. Walz isn't a supple political thinker on the order of Thomas Jefferson, but his ICE lawsuit draws on the Founder's ideas about...

28.01.2026 30

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Master of evasion Bill Clinton may finally be held to account as Congress probes contempt

The former president and practiced political escape artist is on the verge of being held in contempt of Congress for ignoring a congressional subpoena...

24.01.2026 40

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Trump can learn a lot from this forgotten president as he sizes up Greenland

Like Trump, James K. Polk was a cold-eyed American expansionist — but even he compromised with allies to add to US territory.

22.01.2026 30

New York Post

Rich Lowry

How Minneapolis rioters are forcing Trump’s hand with the Insurrection Act

Minnesota’s elected officials can’t help themselves — they keep portraying federal law-enforcement officers as an alien, invading force,...

16.01.2026 20

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Erase Jimmy Carter’s Iran shame

As the Islamic Republic totters, the United States may soon experience a bookend of a terrible national embarrassment: the 1979 Iranian Revolution. 

15.01.2026 60

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Why Trump’s audacious $1.5T ‘Dream Military’ budget is just what America needs

President Trump's historic defense build-up would meet the moment of looming Great Power conflicts — and match the predilections of a president who...

09.01.2026 20

New York Post

Rich Lowry

How Trump can get Greenland — without grabbing it by force

A lightly armed contingent of American crossing guards could probably take the Arctic island over in a couple of days — but the Greenland challenge...

06.01.2026 10

New York Post

Rich Lowry

RFK Jr. actually embraces the science on trans kids

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. isn’t always very careful about evidence — but when it comes to "gender affirmation" treatments, the most painstaking...

31.12.2025 20

New York Post

Rich Lowry

The latest anti-Israel conspiracy theory is decades old — and stupid as ever

An old and debunked claim that the Jewish state deliberately attacked a US Navy spy ship during the Six-Day War has renewed currency on the...

24.12.2025 30

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Bernie Sanders’ poisonously stupid anti-AI crusade would doom America’s future

The Vermont socialist wants us to take our chances ceding a technological advantage to China — and hoping everything turns out OK.

19.12.2025 20

New York Post

Rich Lowry

After Bondi Beach terror attack, the West must face Islamist ideology with clear eyes

The fundamentalist version of Islam is, at its root, hostile to Jews — yet mainstream political parties across the West have refused to cast a...

16.12.2025 60

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Bad influencer: Candace Owens’ toxic Charlie Kirk slanders are poisoning the right

Influential voices on the right have become more and more conspiratorial in recent years — and now, the paranoia is being wielded against its own.

12.12.2025 10

New York Post

Rich Lowry

The ‘Trump Doctrine’ isn’t just branding — it’s a crucial update for US power

Since the 1990s, we’ve let down our guard in the Western Hemisphere. Trump aims to right the power balance in America's backyard.

10.12.2025 10

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Three cheers for President Trump for letting motorists choose gas-powered cars

This uneconomical push for electric vehicles over gas-powered ones ignored consumer preferences and relied on high-handed executive overreach. 

08.12.2025 20

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Ungrateful Ilhan Omar and the Somali scammers are the immigrants we DON’T want

Rep. Ilhan Omar stands for everything we shouldn’t want an immigrant to be — petulant, hostile to the American system as such, and perhaps not...

03.12.2025 10

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Ukraine peace deal exposes feckless Europe’s total irrelevance

Once-great European powers can’t even dictate the end of a war in a European country whose fate they deem crucial to their own future.

27.11.2025 10

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Ken Burns’ ‘childish canard’ makes a woke mockery of America’s founding

Ken Burns says he wants to strip away 'the barnacles of sentimentality' around the American Revolution — but his film creates new barnacles...

25.11.2025 20

New York Post

Rich Lowry

President Trump’s tariffs are making US manufacturers shudder

Ronald Reagan famously said the most frightening words in the English language are: “I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.” US...

22.11.2025 10

New York Post

Rich Lowry

The Jeffrey Epstein scandal is no mystery — just a damning indictment of America’s ‘elites’

This conspiracy wasn’t the work of the Deep State or Israel, but something worse: A criminal's wealth and connections led most of America's upper...

18.11.2025 20

New York Post

Rich Lowry

We’re Looking for a Few Friends — and I Mean a Few — to Get Us to Our Final Webathon Goal of $125,000

18.11.2025 10

National Review

Rich Lowry

How the GOP can push true health care ‘affordability’ — and win

Obamacare imposed massive regulations on the individual insurance market to cover the sick and lower costs, but it's failed on both counts. It's time...

14.11.2025 10

New York Post

Rich Lowry

We’re the Antidote to the Bizarre Obsessions Infecting the Right

13.11.2025 10

National Review

Rich Lowry

The pointless government shutdown is over — but Schumer and Dems’ psychodrama only just getting started

The longest shutdown in US history — with increasing pain points across the country, whether among travelers or SNAP recipients — is ending, while...

11.11.2025 10

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Ozempic for all — Trump the deal-maker aims to make America slim again

GLP-1 drugs make it easier to lose weight, and to avoid associated serious health problems — and President Trump's latest deal will bring down their...

07.11.2025 40

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Tucker Carlson aims to poison us with hatred — but Donald Trump stands in the way

White-nationalist influencer and self-avowed racist Nick Fuentes hit the big time on the “Tucker Carlson Show,” where he laundered noxious ideas...

04.11.2025 10

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Trump reverses ‘asinine’ US nuclear-weapons policy — and it’s about time

Donald Trump recognizes an important reality: There is nothing immoral about testing US nuclear weapons, and not testing them doesn't make the world...

31.10.2025 10

New York Post

Rich Lowry