Historical outliers like the discriminatory Black Codes cannot be used to justify a state government violating explicit provisions of the Bill of Rights.
Rep. Steny H. Hoyer is endorsing his former campaign manager to succeed him after he leaves Congress, where he is currently the longest-serving Democrat.
Some brands become so dominant in their function that their names eclipse generic terms. We ask for a Kleenex instead of a tissue or Google a topic instead of searching the internet. When the word “Pinkertons” is uttered, we conjure the same image: a private detective, or at least hired muscle. That name, Pinkerton, has […]
Let me concede it right at the start. We do apply a double standard to Israel. No Western country imposes sanctions on the Jewish state over its illegal nuclear weapons program. No one has suggested that we bomb its facilities or assassinate its technicians. The reason for our double standard should be obvious. Israel is […]
Summer is just dawning, but America’s pastime is already in full swing — not baseball itself, but the long-standing tradition of lamenting its death at the hands of ruthless corporate modernity. This week’s inciting incident was the Boston Red Sox trading homegrown slugger and World Series champion Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants, something […]
Is there a book more widely loved than Paradise Lost by an author more universally disliked than John Milton? Catholics dislike Milton for his anti-Catholicism, Anglicans dislike him for his nonconformity, monarchs dislike him for his republicanism, republicans dislike him for his religiosity, and feminists dislike him for his supposed misogyny. Samuel Johnson captured the […]
According to isolationists on the Left and Right, Israel’s recent attack on Iran is an escalation or the opening salvo in a “new” war between the nations. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) posted on June 16, “Netanyahu started this war by attacking Iran.” President Donald Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon said the same thing, claiming on […]
“You are welcome in Egypt!” Shouted nearly everyone to me when I was there last week. I was in the country for about 10 days, traveling around with my godson. He’s a tall, sandy-haired American guy — all smiles and radiating a warm openness — so maybe that’s what inspired the welcome greetings. Either way, […]
The ideological overcorrection after the failures of Iraq mean that non-interventionists, both left and right, simply can't fathom that exertion of American power could...
If writers should be judged by their words, then Tom Arnold-Foster’s comprehensive and engaging “intellectual biography” of the legendary journalist Walter Lippmann renders a complete, balanced, and mostly justified verdict. A history fellow at the University of Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute, Arnold-Foster trains a critical eye on the varied and voluminous scribblings of Lippmann, whose […]
For committed woke activists burrowed into countless corporations, the power to push identity politics on everyone around them with DEI policies is proving hard...
