The belief that if you work, you will be able to succeed has fallen in recent years, but a strong 70% majority still believes it is true. Democrats have always been less likely to believe the American dream exists, with just 60% believing the above statement is true today compared to 88% of Republicans. Just […]
Maybe the progressives can bend the arc of history. Maybe feminists can change the rules of the game. But try as they might, the self-appointed agents of change cannot change human nature. Specifically, women and men will always be different, and their divergent tastes and desires don’t always match the script of modern, enlightened, egalitarianism. […]
After 15 years of Republican railing against the Affordable Care Act, GOP lawmakers have it on the ropes. But four House Republicans are trying to help prop it up. The Republican quartet joined Democrats Dec. 17 to force a House vote on a straight three-year extension of the enhanced Obamacare tax credits, which will expire […]
Having been part of the conservative movement for over 35 years, I’ve met a lot of the people who make the movement work. Unfortunately, given this long association, I find myself knowing more and more of the departed conservatives each year. This year was a particularly tough one, as I personally knew 10 of the […]
The new psychological thriller starring Sydney Sweeney, The Housemaid, is one of those movies that is more interesting to talk around than about. In the film, Millie (Sweeney) is hired on as a live-in housemaid for a wealthy Long Island family, boarding in their #cottagecore aesthetic attic. The danger of being so young and blonde […]
Meir Dagan died in 2016, six years after his tenure as director of the Mossad, Israel’s vaunted intelligence agency, ended. But some of the fruits of his efforts were apparent this past summer, during the so-called Iran-Israel war, when the latter country carried out a series of daring and ultimately successful operations against the Iranian […]
Despite whatever misgivings I have about the current president, and I confess to having many, he’s right about pencils. “How many pencils does a person need?” He famously asked recently. You only need “one or two,” he insisted. And when I read those words, I looked up from my newspaper to the three jars on […]
In 2005, my Army unit searched an Afghan village for an enemy weapons cache. Our convoy consisted of a lead Humvee with a .50 caliber machine gun, a center civilian pickup, and my team’s trail Humvee, in which I manned the Mk 19 grenade-launching machine gun. It was a pretty average day. Then our convoy […]
Seven states seceded from the Union before James Buchanan left office in 1861, and within months of Lincoln’s inauguration, the forces of slavocracy directly threatened the capital with the Confederate victory at Bull Run. Whatever one thinks of American democracy in 2025, it is not under any more dire threat than the one contained in […]
Timothy Cardinal Dolan, a tireless advocate of religious liberty, Catholic education, the unborn and the poor, has become the steady and strong yet ever-beaming...
