New York’s once vaunted civil-rights tradition is a pitiful shadow of its past self, its premier institutions available for rent if not outright sale. American Federation of Teachers chief...
JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania — Alex Gambino, 21, is the son of two educators. He’s busy working welding a piece of material that will be used on a heavily armored military vehicle when finished. Despite two college-educated parents, who teach at the local Cambrian County schools, he wanted nothing to do with college following high school. “I […]
The Department of Government Efficiency’s interest in auditing the IRS should be welcome news. The agency is not above scrutiny; it deserves an audit, just like the ones it pushes on taxpayers. What they may not know about the IRS, however, is that it is heavily and inappropriately armed. DOGE is mandated not just to […]
The COVID-19 era began five years ago with the cancellation of some NBA and NHL games followed by the closures of schools, churches, and businesses. Then, stay-at-home orders and social-distancing rules hit us, followed by mask mandates and, later, vaccine mandates. Of all the errors, follies, and misdeeds of this disastrous period, the most damaging […]
THE TRUMP UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE. Back in 2016, when I was covering Donald Trump‘s first presidential campaign, I met a number of Republican voters who were open to Trump — they weren’t thrilled by other candidates, such as Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio — but they were not quite able to commit to supporting the […]
Much has been made of the classless displays by congressional Democrats during President Donald Trump’s joint address. From Rep. Al Green’s (D-TX) outburst to the performative political theatrics and hyperbolic hysteria, Democrats were widely criticized for their actions on Tuesday night. However, the most egregious display of their vitriolic hatred was when the majority of Democrats […]
Meghan Markle’s new Netflix show, With Love, Meghan, dropped earlier this week, and despite its release, it hasn’t cracked Netflix’s top 10 shows. Why is that? As the Daily Mail points out, “When asked for his first impression of the series in an ’emergency’ episode of Palace Confidential, Richard Eden, the Daily Mail’s diary editor, said, ‘It was just […]
The Academy Awards is when Hollywood’s elite make themselves feel good about their corrupt industry and their progressive politics. It makes it all the funnier that these celebrities are running in the face of Native Americans that they stole their land. Land acknowledgments are the weirdest and most insulting form of virtue signaling among left-wing […]
Suppose you were Vladimir Putin, emperor and autocrat of all the Russias. And suppose you somehow controlled the president of the United States. What would you make him do? Withdrawing America’s support from Ukraine, switching off intelligence-sharing, and canceling even the weapons that were already in transit — that would be just the start. Ideally, […]
In his first months in office, President Donald Trump has begun to defang the diversity, equity, and inclusion industry. You know, the harmful grift that discriminates against people who happen to be white on the pretext of remedying the effects of past discrimination against people who mostly died generations ago. Under former President Joe Biden, […]
I’m departing from the norms of this column by starting with a brief discussion of a 19th-century painter. But I promise that Guillaume-Adolphe Bouguereau is relevant to today’s Washington politics. In the third quarter of the 19th century, Bouguereau’s painstakingly realistic classical works were all the rage. He was a lion of the French Academy, […]
The second Trump administration is engaged in the first real transfer of power since 1933. What is taking place is an attempt at national transformation, and that is never quiet. “Buckle up, there’s more to come,” I tell friends — not only here but especially those overseas — who express anxiety with what they see […]
At a recent screening at the AFI theatre just outside Washington, D.C., the crowd reaction to the documentary Housewife of the Year was telling. The Irish film by Ciaran Cassidy unearths footage of Housewife of the Year, a hugely popular show on Irish television from 1969 to 1995. Housewife of the Year was a competition to see which […]
We often assume that however things are going, so they will continue to go. This assumption is strongest when the dynamic in question is part of the struggle between modernity and tradition. Secularization is such a trend: presumed to be, well, secular, in the sense that it is not seen as cyclical. The secular-materialist mind […]
After months of late-night threats, offline and online backchanneling, and eleventh-hour temporary reprieves, President Donald Trump has finally enacted 25% tariffs on imports from our two top trading partners, Mexico and China. In the process, Trump has made the highest-stakes gamble on his presidency, first and second terms. Trump retroactively paused tariffs on specific auto […]
