Opinion

The Second World War ended eight decades ago this summer. But its specter looms large today. The war ended empires, upended the global order, and changed the course of the 20th century. Eighty years later, it still has much to teach us. World War II is passing into memory. This is the last major anniversary […]

There is a chart that the Democratic Party-aligned Brookings Institution loves to put out after every presidential election. It shows the “candidates’ share” of “GDP by county” for the most recent election. Right on schedule, just days after then-candidate Donald Trump beat Democratic rival Kamala Harris in 2024, Brookings published the latest version of its […]

A year ago, when the cultural “vibe shift” was still just a subterranean tremor, a liberal writer noted that woke inanity was a much bigger problem for liberals than conservatives. For a conservative who lived in a conservative place and didn’t work for a woke corporation, the argument was that the odds were small that […]

Within just two weeks of launching a patriotism-themed join.ICE.gov website, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been flooded with over 100,000 applications to help the Trump administration enforce our nation’s immigration laws. This ICE recruitment boom is part of a larger pattern of interest in serving the nation, particularly among young men filling security, law enforcement, […]

Brace yourselves, I’m going to “kink shame.” Though it might feel good in the moment, tying your commitment-phobic boyfriend to the bed is not appropriate sexual behavior.  Such is the lesson of Oh, Hi!, an off-kilter romantic comedy that may well be the most outrageously entertaining movie of the summer. A story of desire, frustration, […]

Every year around this time, from about the age of 7 until I was 21, older people asked me the same question: “So,” they’d say with a genial chuckle, “are you ready to go back to school?”  I haven’t heard that question in about 39 years, but this week I heard it again for the […]

In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s great satire of journalism in general and foreign correspondents in particular, newspaper magnate Lord Copper sends a reporter to the African Republic of Ishmaelia to cover the crisis unfolding there. “We think it a very promising little war,” he declares. “A microcosm, as you might say, of world drama.” Phoebe Greenwood’s […]

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 […]