Opinion

Summer is here. It’s time for a break, especially from politics. Why waste time thinking about Hunter Biden’s convictions and President Joe Biden’s lack of them when we could, like Donald Trump, be enjoying our freedom while we can? Let’s take a vacation in Europe. They have politics there, too, but a change is as […]

San Francisco is opening a market where people can take food and walk out without having to pay for it. This time, they are doing it on purpose. San Francisco has opened what is being called a “free food market.” It is essentially a food pantry where approved residents in the neighborhood who fill a […]

One of the best jokes in Whit Stillman‘s 1994 comedy Barcelona could apply to much academic writing of the past half-century. Fred, a naval officer who is a new arrival in Europe, asks his expatriate cousin Ted about something he noticed in the books he has been reading while waiting for the fleet to arrive. […]

Before the advent of photography, motion pictures, and TV, it was artists and illustrators who provided a visual perspective of the world. Artistic renditions were the only means of seeing countries fight on land and sea. They depicted scenes of victorious generals and fallen heroes on the battlefield. They provided propaganda to promote historical achievement, […]

On paper, the National Environmental Policy Act sounds like a good idea. Passed in 1970, the same year Earth Day was created, NEPA requires all federal agencies to conduct an “Environmental Impact Statement” for every action taken that might affect the environment. So if the Department of Transportation wants to build a highway, it has […]

For years, Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) has vowed to bring school choice to Texas families. Thanks to a runoff election that went in his favor this year, he’s now claiming he’s certain he’ll be able to make good on that promise. Will Texans have education options in the next year or could there still be […]

Next month, NATO’s most senior officials and prominent practitioners will convene in Washington, D.C. The timing is critical. The alliance has been around for 75 years, and the threats to it have gone through major changes. During the last three years, especially, Russia and China have been increasingly aggressive in their efforts to undermine U.S. […]

During the annual Congressional Baseball Game, in which Republicans humbled Democrats in a 31-11 win, left-wing activists reminded everyone that woke ideology only breeds chaos.  Anti-Israel protesters disrupted the national anthem and climate change activists leaped over the stands to storm the field, failing to get very far.   The climate activists, representing Climate Defiance, a […]

The Black Lives Matter movement does not have many legislative accomplishments. But the passage of Proposition 47 in California in the wake of Michael Brown’s death in 2014 is one of them. It has been a complete and predicted disaster, and California voters are now trying to repeal it with another ballot proposition this year. […]

Sometimes, there’s a stupid sort of contest among soldiers. I’ll call it the “Hardcore Olympics.” Soldiers and veterans will tease each other or argue about who had the toughest job or roughest deployment. At its worst, the Hardcore Olympics will have infantry guys proclaiming, “If you ain’t infantry, you ain’t nothing.” I wish those guys […]

No one is likely to accuse Netflix’s new limited series Eric of a lack of ambition. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and created by British playwright and TV veteran Abi Morgan (River, The Split), it fairly crackles with aspirational energy. The problem is the series’s utter inability to find a coherent tone. Imagine Mrs. Doubtfire embroiled in […]

A concerned citizen made a 911 call on a balmy Wednesday evening in Spokane, Washington, at the beginning of June. Youths were committing a hateful act of vandalism, one for which they would shortly be arrested. The company whose product the young people used to commit the act of vandalism even released a statement, saying […]