As evidenced by the friendly fire faced by former President Donald Trump for embracing the pro-life position of federalism supported by the entire movement prior to 2022, the anti-abortion movement is an intentionally vast group of varying, and often conflicting, factions. On the one hand, you have disproportionately purple state pragmatists and reformers who focus […]
A New York University professor praised the anti-Israel student encampment that has taken over his school’s campus for bringing students and faculty together in a way he’s “never seen before” over the weekend. “I spent two hours at the NYU encampment late last night. It was something I’ve never seen before at NYU: a real […]
Anyone who followed the 2017 debate over so-called “net neutrality” regulations, the rules that bind internet service providers, will remember countless dire warnings about how the Trump administration’s rollback of the rules supposedly endangered the internet as we know it. Official accounts for the Democrats tweeted out absurdities such as this: Meanwhile, elected officials such […]
In last week’s Supreme Court oral arguments regarding former President Donald Trump’s assertion of “total immunity” for acts committed as president, conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch each considered questions outside the court’s proper purview. Except perhaps at the very margins, they should not base their decisions on those questions or the […]
AS POLLS SLIP, BIDEN SEEKS MEDIA HELP. Sunday brought more bad news for President Joe Biden in the form of a new CNN poll showing former President Donald Trump leading Biden by 6 points, 49% to 43%, in a head-to-head national matchup, and by 9 points, 42% to 33%, in a race that includes Robert F. […]
President Donald Trump shocked America with his moral equivalence when, against the backdrop of a 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville and the murder of a counterprotester, he declared, there were “very fine people on both sides.” His remarks were enough for Trump’s opponents to brand him a racist. After all, even if many at […]
If there’s one thing that America will probably never be divided on, it’s that everyone cries at the end of Old Yeller. For those who may not have seen the movie, given that it is nearly 70 years old, it’s the lovable story about a family living on the frontier in the 19th century who takes […]
It is difficult to envision a time in which whole countries and civilizations were not yet aware of each other’s existence. Yet, this is the historic era in which the latest Hulu/FX series Shogun, based on James Clavell’s 1975 novel, is set. The series plunges into the mysterious and perilous world of the 17th century, in which […]
The below piece is the winning collegiate essay in the Network of Enlightened Women’s 2024 essay contest. Every human possesses an innate desire to feel heard, seen, and understood, but the unfortunate truth is that genuine community can be hard to come by. College life, in particular, presents a huge challenge to conservative young women […]
Niger and Chad are two of the poorest countries on the planet. The first is administered by a military junta that deposed the democratically elected president in July and has been keeping the former head of state and his family in confinement ever since. The latter is basically a family-run enterprise, with the current president, Mahamat Idriss […]
Iran’s leaders regularly espouse the goal of eradicating the state of Israel. Earlier this month, Iran acted on that goal, launching for the first time an attack on Israel from its own soil. Iranian leaders have threatened future responses from Iranian territory. A line has been crossed. This attack and any future escalation pose a […]
If your next-door neighbor decided to start brewing beer in his garage, and the fermenting yeast made your house smell like rotten eggs, you could sue him for nuisance, enjoin him from making beer, and seek damages to repair the damage to your house. That is a fair common law principle. But what if the […]
