Opinion

Is the artificial intelligence boom over before it really began? The question sounds absurd — and yet it’s precisely the kind of headline that’s begun creeping back into public discourse. However, talk of an “AI winter” is premature, and perhaps even a categorical error.   This is a classic instance of the so-called Amara Law, which states […]

Zohran Mamdani is apparently ready to apologize to New York Police Department officers for calling them racist. It is his latest insincere attempt to smooth over his outlandish left-wing rhetoric. Mamdani on Thursday said that he intends to apologize for calling the NYPD “racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety” in 2020. Mamdani claims that […]

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here. Jeffrey Goldberg promises that former Vice President Kamala Harris’s forthcoming book […]

The tragic murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk revealed some of the radicals who influence young Americans, including the radicalized beta boy who carried out the assassination. Thankfully, some of those indoctrinating “educators” will no longer be allowed to have power over the country’s children.  “Educators” across the country found it to be their last […]

The clock to protect families is ticking, Council Member of Frederick County, Maryland, Mason Carter, told the Washington Examiner, adding that blue states must adopt a “stronger presence” of federal law enforcement and stop the downplay of crime.  “[Complying with the Department of Homeland Security] is a great idea. It is appalling. It is in our […]

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 […]