There have been great presidents who never did any soldiering, of course, but there has never been this long a run of American commanders in chief who haven’t seen war up close. Now that the only veteran to have seriously contended for the 2024 presidency, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), is gone from the race for […]
Among all the available definitions of cinema, few are at once truer and more politically incorrect than the one offered by Jean-Luc Godard. “The history of cinema,” the director of Breathless, Contempt, and Weekend once said, “is boys photographing girls.” In its day, Godard’s remark undoubtedly inspired a thousand dissertations on the evils of the […]
BOONE COUNTY, West Virginia — Not many people in the national press were paying attention to the Democratic presidential primary results in West Virginia on May 8, 2012. Barack Obama was the incumbent president, and few outside local press noticed that Keith Russell Judd, a Texas convict sitting in a federal prison for extortion, had sent […]
Once upon a time on Comedy Central, Jon Stewart was seen as more honest than the most milquetoast anchor on cable news. The host of The Daily Show from 1999 to 2015, whose favorite pastime might have been mocking politicians, especially Republicans, was once described as “the Most Trusted Man in America” and commanded an […]
Although President Joe Biden has so far adhered to his promise to respect the independence of the Federal Reserve, fellow Democrats continue to refuse to play quite so coy, with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) overtly calling upon Chairman Jerome Powell to juice the economy in time for the president’s reelection by cutting the federal funds […]
For all the ink that has been spilled describing former President Donald Trump‘s problems with suburban college-educated voters, one would think the former president and likely Republican nominee is headed to a blowout loss in November. Given the narrative, one would presume that there is a groundswell of support for President Joe Biden, Trump’s likely […]
President Joe Biden would be wise to avoid another Afghanistan situation by pulling all American forces out of Syria before ISIS has been vanquished. On Wednesday, Charles Lister, senior fellow and director of the Middle East Institute’s Syria Program, published an article warning that the United States military was making secret preparations to evacuate the […]
