Gavin Newsom claims to have balanced the budget for the first time in five years, but the revised proposal he presented this week gives little hope to an improved...
“We’re not a king. We’re not a king,” said President Donald Trump, speaking to news reporters at the White House on June 12. It was his best line of the day. If it was intentional, it was a more subtle piece of media trolling than we are used to from the president. For Trump was […]
The Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents may have to get used to meetings where accountability is expected. At this week’s much-anticipated one, members yielded to President Donald Trump’s demand for an audit of politicized content. Alas, they also circled the wagons around Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch. The Wall Street Journal reports that, according to a […]
It’s no secret former President Joe Biden and the Democrats left the United States in a mess. In just four years, Democrats managed to spend our country into a crisis and explode inflation by more than 20%. People were left with less buying power to put food on the table and higher interest rates, while our […]
If the United States will not keep its word even to its closest allies, what is its friendship worth? In reviewing the AUKUS deal — a $240 billion multidecade agreement with the United Kingdom and Australia to share nuclear submarine technology — the Trump administration is vindicating every anti-American agitator who claims that Uncle Sam […]
If you thought your niece’s high school graduation ran a little long last weekend, if you had to show up 30 minutes early to get three seats together at your son’s graduation, or if you had to park three blocks away, there’s good news for you: Future graduations will be less crowded — statistically speaking. This […]
Three thousand miles away from the riots in Los Angeles, President Donald Trump’s deportation policies are disrupting life on the quaint little resort island of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, too. According to the Washington Post, work has been halted on the construction of multimillion-dollar vacation homes, the pools at luxury resorts are going without maintenance, and […]
When all else fails, blame fiscal irresponsibility. California Democrats know it better than anyone. During violent riots in Los Angeles over Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, President Donald Trump deployed National Guard members and Marines to aid officers. The cost associated with doing so is reported to be $134 million. Naturally, the Democrats have latched […]
Simone Biles is an Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics, but she may also be a gold medalist in mental gymnastics. That or, perhaps, she is just a bit of a hypocrite. On a random Friday, Biles decided to jump into the debate on transgender athletes in response to a post from former University of Kentucky […]
Since the start of President Donald Trump‘s second term, the weight of the world, or at least of global markets, international trade, and geopolitical relations, has fallen on the shoulders of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, whose portfolio spans everything from China tariffs to bond auctions. But Bessent’s toughest negotiating partner is probably not Chinese President […]
When Donald Trump won his second term in the White House last fall, a whole host of other politicos and organizations won with him. This includes his campaign staff now working in the administration, Republican backers now serving in the Cabinet, and a loose collection of intellectuals that dubs itself the New Right. Among the […]
Back in 1989, amid the first flush of what was then known as “political correctness,” a troupe of ardent feminists had famously infiltrated the roof of Columbia University’s Butler Library the night of commencement to hang a homespun painted banner of more diverse and ostensibly relevant female writers above the maler, staler, and slightly paler […]
The wonderful thing about dying young, rich, and famous is that you’re spared the cruelties of time. Wrinkles don’t line your eyes. The amber glow of nostalgia blurs over your scandals. You don’t have time to make an off-color joke or political faux pas, let alone hawk overpriced branded jam. Your worst moments are forgotten, […]
George Orwell defined a “good bad book” as “the kind of book that has no literary pretensions but which remains readable when more serious productions have perished.” His supreme example was Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Orwell thought it “unintentionally ludicrous” and full of “preposterous melodramatic incidents,” but he also found it “deeply moving and essentially true.” It […]
