Chris Bohjalian’s The Amateur tells a story from the perspective of an adult looking back at a decades-old pivotal event she sometimes misremembers. The event and its consequences shift their shape. Sometimes the story seems to be about killing someone with a golf ball. Sometimes it is about adult men who take sexual advantage of […]
There is no legally binding international treaty that establishes abortion as a human right. Yet governments around the world are increasingly told they are violating international law if they refuse to legalize or expand abortion. How did a right that nations never negotiated become one that international institutions now claim governments are obligated to uphold? […]
Who’d a-thunk it? The Assad regime collapses in Syria after 54 years. Vladimir Putin’s hold on power seems undermined by imperial overstretch, and the mullahs of Iran have been unable to defend their skies and their leaders’ hotel rooms from Israeli attack. Leaders of the two largest nations of continental Europe have been repudiated. Germany’s […]
NCAA President Charlie Baker apparently thinks that female athletes are more of a burden to college sports than they are equal members who deserve respect from the top governing body. Baker faced a Senate hearing where he had hoped to talk about restrictions on gambling on college athletes, though anyone could have predicted that the […]
Even before his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump is either, depending on your perspective, projecting power or spreading chaos beyond America’s borders. As I write, the prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, is hanging on by a thread following the resignation of his finance minister, Chrystia Freeland. The problem? Trump’s threat of a 25% tariff on […]
A plurality of young Americans now openly support terrorism. Yes, seriously. This sounds like right-wing alarmism or hyperbole, but it’s just reality, as revealed by a disturbing new poll. For context, popular internet personalities responded to the cold-blooded murder of a healthcare CEO by celebrating and even sexualizing the alleged killer, Luigi Mangione. But observers […]
The government seems either unwilling or incapable of resolving rapidly growing public concern over the wave of aerial drone sightings that have afflicted New Jersey in recent weeks. But New Jersey is only a fraction of the full story. From Virginia to Colorado to Maryland to Oregon, credible reports of unexplained aerial drone activity keep […]
After decades of focusing exclusively on boosting female success, many on the Left are finally realizing that many young men are now significantly behind their female counterparts. Girls get better grades and are more likely to graduate from high school than boys. Women make up 60% of college students and 66% of college graduates. Men […]
One of the worst features of our modern journalist class is its love for spouting abject propaganda while hiding behind its self-assigned cloak of invincibility that protects it from consequences. With their pithy X/Twitter bios and over-credentialed LinkedIn resumes carefully crafted, legacy journalists have decided that they are uniquely qualified to decide what is best […]
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) waded into a trendy debate on X when she posted, “STOP POISONING OUR FOOD. We must BAN seed oils, high-fructose corn syrup, and other highly processed additives. MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN!” The “MAHA” movement, popularized by the nominee for Department of Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his odd, politically […]
The only time I ever agreed with MSNBC’s Joy Reid was when she declared the Left victorious in the culture wars following the hyper-woke Grammy Awards on CBS in February 2023. “Culture wars are over, and the Left won, like total defeat,” she declared on her newscast the following evening. “Despite the almost hysterical war […]
President-elect Donald Trump’s most striking characteristics today are clarity, confidence, and calm. This is extraordinary in a man renowned for chaos, confusion, and the thin-skinned hurling of demeaning insults. But it is a truth that needs to be acknowledged and accounted for to understand what we are witnessing as Trump prepares to resume the presidency. […]
It is not clear why there have been so many drone sightings at night in the Northeast during the past month. People believe they are seeing increased drone activity, and these unexplained sightings upset them, which is hardly surprising. But we can change the policy on drones. What is happening now is not inevitable and […]
