“In Ireland, folk music is a living tradition,” a crotchety old drunk in a Galway pub once told me. It wasn’t simply about revering the past by teaching children the songs of their forefathers, he added. Each new generation adds to that tradition by adding songs of their own.
Crime has been a major subject in local elections across the country over the past few years, and even Democratic voters are acknowledging that it isn’t just some conservative talking point.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Comission is suing Meathead Movers for "discouragement bias" because not enough old people work there. The feds are totally out...
This age of social media is also the age of the insta-celebrity. It’s an age in which in-person human connections are diminished in favor of unfulfilling cyber-relations, an era in which loneliness grows while religious faith shrinks. It is an age in which someone almost nobody had heard of in 2004 could get elected president in 2008, as former President Barack Obama once accurately mused that he served as a “blank slate” upon which people of multiple views could project their wishes.
TRUMP GETS STRONGER IN IOWA. The Iowa caucuses, the first votes of the 2024 Republican presidential race, are five weeks from today. There's a new poll out this morning from the Des Moines Register finding that former President Donald Trump has a "commanding" lead in Iowa that has expanded in the last two months, even as his legal troubles mounted, even as challenger Nikki Haley received glowing media coverage, and even as closest competitor Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) recovered his equilibrium. Through it all, Trump's lead has grown.
HOMESTEAD, Pennsylvania — Conservationist, outdoorsman, podcaster, father, avid hunter, cook, New York Times bestselling author, and master storyteller Steven Rinella is somewhere in the middle of the country as we speak, driving from Colorado to Pennsylvania as part of his MeatEater Live Tour. It's a show that takes all of the laughs, stories, harrowing adventures, and trivia of his wildly popular podcast to the cities and towns that many of his fans call home.
Saturday Night Live has not been funny in over a decade, but at least it used to try. Once upon a time, it would have found the hysteria in a murderers' row of elite university presidents unable to agree that active calls for genocide against Jews constitute a violation of codes of conduct. Alas, SNL tried and failed to make the butt of the joke not the dilettante dictators who steamrolled all other forms of free speech until the Jews were the target, but rather the powerful woman who managed to hold them to account.
Vindication for two IRS whistleblowers has come on two major fronts in the past week as the Justice Department, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and President Joe Biden all look substantially worse. Indeed, Garland looks so corrupt that he should lose his job.
I don’t want to pick on Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). On the contrary, I have a soft spot for the former college football player who, though he is my age, has the looks, energy, and enthusiasm of a 35-year-old. The only time I properly met him, I found him utterly charming. I cite the former presidential hopeful only because he articulates a view that has very suddenly become orthodox among Republicans, and a view that I think is profoundly mistaken.
The hypocrisy and moral imbecility of the three Ivy League presidents before Congress last week points to two deeper problems of university leadership today.
"Campus administrators who said they would never censor anti-Jewish speech . . . are hypocrites. They routinely, eagerly censor speech when the speech is...
The Biden administration's proposals aren’t likely to change the planet’s temperature by even one-tenth of a degree, but they might just destroy the 21st-century...
