Education has been a top priority for conservatives concerned about the deteriorating state of American schooling. Many on the right have championed school choice proposals as a free market model for education, helping families choose the best options available while cutting back on the government’s role in the process. Still, some conservatives think it’s too […]
When an illegal immigrant is encountered by Border Patrol near the southern border, federal immigration law mandates that all such persons, even those who express a fear of returning to their home country, “shall be detained” until they are either deported or granted asylum. In 1952, Congress created an exception to the mandatory detention of […]
Though the Founding Fathers were divided over whether a president should be able to face criminal prosecution — James Madison famously proposed explicating presidential immunities at the Constitutional Convention, his colleagues demurred — the Sixth Amendment proves they all agreed that all potential defendants, plebeians and presidents alike, deserve the right to “an impartial jury […]
President Joe Biden on May 9 will welcome his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the White House, rolling out the red carpet as part of a deal to get Erdogan to drop his veto over Sweden’s NATO membership. The invitation will not bring peace; rather, it is the equivalent of giving brass knuckles to a […]
The Senate recently confirmed Andrew N. Ferguson and Melissa Holyoak as commissioners to the Federal Trade Commission in a unanimous vote. Their appointment not only returned the agency to five members for the first since 2022 but also restored bipartisan representation. Ferguson and Holyoak are both Republican. For almost a year, the FTC had been run […]
Sometimes we miss the important thing because we are looking for something else. That’s certainly the case with an important Supreme Court action taken earlier this week. The justices responded to litigation related to Idaho’s law, passed in 2023, known as the “Vulnerable Child Protection Act.” This statute regulated medical actions taken on children to […]
The United States is most economically prosperous when politicians and policy elites fully embrace free market capitalism, which includes free trade on a level playing field. Make America Great Again, MAGA, remains the trademark slogan of former President Donald Trump as he campaigns to be elected President. But some of the economic policies proposed by […]
The NCAA women’s basketball championship game on April 7 between Iowa and South Carolina had a massive audience. This was due in no small part to Caitlin Clark, a uniquely talented player for the Hawkeyes. Clark has been a star for a while but national interest in her took off this year. According to reports, the game […]
In the late 1980s, Jesse Jackson famously led a bunch of Stanford students in a march, shouting, “Hey hey, ho ho, Western Civ has got to go!” Universities broadly complied, hollowing out core course requirements in Western Civilization. The result has been an understandable lament on the Right that our universities have no moral core […]
Iran’s decision to launch hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel last weekend offers a painful lesson for President Joe Biden. His policy of hoping to induce better behavior from the Islamic Republic through multibillion-dollar payoffs has been revealed as naive fiction. In fairness to Biden, this fatally misguided assumption that the mullahs want to be […]
The first moments of an interview with a major political figure are always surreal. The familiarity of the subject’s voice cuts against the novelty of engaging with someone for the first time. It is disorienting, to say the least. This was the case when I spoke with the late Sen. Joseph Lieberman in early March. […]
President Joe Biden‘s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is proposing a new rule that indulges three of its most ignoble habits in a single move. The rule would not merely allow but promote abortion, it would violate the religious liberty of employers, and it would make a mockery of congressional intent and of a law’s plain meaning. The rule pertains to […]
Benjamin Franklin was, as the children say these days, built different. The Pennsylvanian founding father studiously maintained a chart bearing seven columns, for each day of the week, and 13 rows, one for each of 13 central virtues: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. Each week, Franklin […]
Yes, Herman Melville sold a lot of books before he died, but it was his Typee, an account of “life among the savages,” that captured the popular imagination, not the unloved and disregarded Moby-Dick. Perhaps the most depressing part of seriously studying English literature is realizing just how little of it was actually read at any […]
