In the aftermath of an ISIS-inspired attack in New York City, it wasn’t just CNN that became the target of widespread scorn. As CNN’s report of the would-be terrorist bombing focused on the weather and the alleged perpetrators, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was also lambasted for beginning his address by focusing on Islamophobia. […]
Our nation’s capital is one of the most expensive places in the country to live, especially for entry-level workers. A legislative staffer or policy analyst in their late 20s earns roughly $58,000 a year, yet median rents in the district routinely exceed $2,300 per month — nearly half their income. Add in the rising cost of groceries, tens […]
The efficiency and destructiveness of the United States’s military so far in the Iran campaign have been historic, and the bravery and professionalism of the people at the tip of the spear are awe-inspiring. However, it’s also worth remembering that the shaft of that spear is long and comprised of thousands of essential workers, not all of them in […]
Technology is disrupting the U.S. banking industry. Cryptocurrency firms are trying to compete directly with America’s largest banks in pursuit of the financial assets of the country’s households and businesses. But the crypto firms that want to collect customer deposits do not want to be subject to the capital requirements and banking regulations that govern America’s biggest banks. […]
Wars used to announce themselves with troop movements, air-raid sirens, and closed skies. Today, the opening move is often invisible. By the time physical conflict begins, the digital battlefield has already been shaped. Modern warfare often begins when adversaries quietly penetrate digital systems such as traffic cameras, mobile phones, logistics networks, and data platforms. As […]
Charlie Kirk became one of the most powerful figures in politics because he did something extraordinary in today’s world. He went to college campuses...
This week, Charlie Kirk — husband, father, and one of the foremost conservative voices of his generation as founder of Turning Point USA — was assassinated on a Utah college campus. In broad daylight, during a debate with students, Charlie Kirk was murdered. In the United States of America in the 21st century, he was […]
Originally published in 1996, Andrey Kurkov’s novel Death and the Penguin, which follows a humble obituarist and his pet penguin in post-communist Ukraine, finds tenderness and comedy in bleak circumstances. Lies are endemic, and murder is commonplace, but there is enough warmth and humour for one to feel the power of evil in the knowledge […]
William F. Buckley called him “Mission Control.” National Review publisher Bill Rusher referred to him as “the Master.” From Australia, Professor Hiram Caton described him as “the central nervous system of the body conservative, the only man who was in constant touch with what all of us in the remote regions were thinking.” REVIEW OF ‘BUCKLEY: THE […]
Something profoundly important may, one hopes, have happened to America’s understanding of itself when a sniper murdered Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10. This is despite our becoming sadly familiar with political violence, not least because of two assassination attempts against President Donald Trump last year. Back then, Trump got up quickly from the ground after […]
Democrats are pitching a familiar playbook to rally Americans to their side. They claim Republican policymakers are only out to help their “billionaire buddies” at the expense of working families. Those tired, false slogans should ring hollow as Americans begin to reap the benefits of President Donald Trump’s signature legislative achievement: the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. […]
In the fall of 2024, a Jewish teacher in the San Francisco Unified School District opened an email from his teachers union to find a flyer promoting an “International Day of Action” with the statement, “One year of genocide, one year of resistance.” Disgusted, he reached out to leadership and demanded his dues be returned. […]
Rolling blackouts were a familiar experience for Californians just a few years ago, as Democrats’ reckless climate policies weakened the state’s electric grid. Now they are back, as the state has failed to keep its forest fires under control. Rural Californians are now being forced to go without power for days at a time as […]
It’s not every day that you can claim without reservation that someone is almost entirely responsible for a cultural achievement. But you can absolutely make that claim about Charles James Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, which is, without question, the most successful grassroots youth political organization in the conservative movement in history. It […]
When Walt Disney first opened his theme parks in California and Florida, he had every intention of making them available “to as many families as possible,” according to management consultant Daniel Currell. “Everyone is a VIP,” was the official company motto at the time, and an employee handbook from the 1950s quoted Disney as saying, […]
What do you get when the party of feminism joins up with the party of the upper-middle-class strivers? You get today’s Democratic Party, where career achievement and material success become all-consuming goals in life. NBC News asked nearly 3,000 Gen Zers for their top priorities in life. Specifically, it asked, “Which of the following is […]
Part of being a student — even an old one, like me — is spending time in the library. As I write this, I am sitting in the Firestone Library at Princeton University, looking up at a wall festooned with names of honored, illustrious alumni and super-rich donors, two categories that do not always, or […]
I am always on the lookout for historians who can fashion well-worn stories from the past into sparkling new dramas filled with cliffhangers and near-catastrophes that keep me turning pages in taut expectation of an outcome decided centuries ago. Author Scott Ellsworth provides just that in Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the […]
Godzilla has terrorized the Land of the Rising Sun for decades. Known as a kaiju (monster) in Japan, and King of the Monsters in the United States, Godzilla’s fearsome roar and atomic breath is a child’s nightmare come to life. It’s fought with and against other gigantic creatures. It’s struck fear in the hearts of […]
