When I was in fifth grade, I aced the Presidential Fitness Test. Not because I was some athletic prodigy — I was a large child who’d later become a big man — but because we had a pull-up bar at home. My parents had installed it in a doorway, and like my 5-year-old daughter today, […]
King of the Hill aired the final episode of its original run on Sept. 13, 2009, when then-President Barack Obama still enjoyed a double-digit net approval rating, the BlackBerry was still the premier smart device, and Donald Trump seemed to be fading permanently from public life as The Apprentice‘s schtick wore thin. At the risk […]
President Trump on Thursday evening nominated Assistant U.S. Attorney Rebecca Taibleson to serve as a judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, making her the sixth federal appeals court nominee of his second term. "It is my Great Honor to nominate Rebecca Taibleson to serve as a Judge on the United States Court of...
President Trump said on Thursday that he would like to see foreign journalists granted access to the Gaza Strip by Israel. "I'd like to see that happen, sure," the president told reporters at the White House. "I would be very fine with journalists going. And it's a very dangerous position to be in, as you...
A Minnesota man accused of killing State House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, Vance Boelter, was indicted on Thursday by a grand jury on eight charges, including two counts of first-degree murder. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced that Boelter, who was also accused of injuring another Democratic Party state lawmaker and his...
This all started 5,000 years ago. That’s when, give or take a millennium or two, the journey began, which ended with me writing and you reading these words in English. Retracing every last twist in the path from there to here, no doubt, would make for a gripping book. However, that is not the book […]
Near the beginning of F1, veteran racer Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) is forced to endure a brief meet-and-greet with Peter Banning, a cardboard-stereotype corporate villain played with relish by English stage veteran Tobias Menzies. “I’ve caught up on all the Drive To Survive episodes,” Banning says, and the audience is meant to understand that he […]
As a grandchild of Whittaker Chambers who has studied the historiography of the famous events around my grandfather, I’m always eager for the next book on the Hiss-Chambers Case of 1948-1950. After all, in my family, family lore is a matter of public dispute. When my grandfather included Alger Hiss in 1948 congressional testimony about […]
KITTANNING — In April 1775, William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in the Continental Army of a rifle battalion in the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment. The men who served with him were German, Irish, and Scottish settlers. They were fiercely independent frontiersmen, farmers, and artisans […]
This Fourth of July, consider the fireworks a reminder that freedom isn't granted by government, it's something that must be protected from government.
The madcap exhibition team has made America’s pastime even more American, tapping into the antic spirit of minor-league baseball and the showmanship of the...
The online literary wars rage on, with faulty arguments and inconsistent narratives. In an age dominated by short-form “BookTok” content, the New York Times, in a recent article, suggested that the “literary man” is on the way to extinction. Liberal media call this a grave concern, but it’s only posturing. Any man who does read […]
Gavin Newsom hasn’t exactly hidden his presidential ambitions over the past half decade, but only now has the California governor finally conceded that his state has become a political punchline rather than a model, demonstrating the consequences of progressive governance. In a de facto admission of policy failure, Newsom signed two rare bipartisan bills dramatically […]
As the fight over the “big, beautiful bill” comes to an end, President Donald Trump maintains political momentum that can push the GOP into a favorable position for 2026, so long as Trump doesn’t get reckless. Since taking office, around 50% of voters say the country is on the wrong track under Trump, while around […]
In recent years, state governments have regulated pornography according to a notion of absolute freedom of speech. In a 6-3 decision on Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton, the Supreme Court ruled against this misunderstanding. Namely, the court upheld Texas House Bill 1181, requiring that websites with sexually explicit content verify their visitors’ ages. The […]
