Two hundred fifty years ago this summer, our Founding Fathers created a new nation, as President Abraham Lincoln put it, “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” This Memorial Day, we should remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice and made its unlikely existence possible. America’s success wasn’t […]
THE IRAN TALKS: HOW THE ADMINISTRATION SEES THINGS NOW. In the last couple of days the Iran war has been going through another one of the up-and-down news cycles — in which some sort of resolution seems imminent and then not so imminent — that have become a familiar story. In this case, President Trump, who […]
Despite a career plagued by scandals and public meltdowns, Mel Gibson remains one of Hollywood’s most compelling filmmakers. Whether directing sweeping historical epics such as Braveheart and Hacksaw Ridge or dabbling in offbeat action comedies such as Fatman, Gibson rarely fails to entertain. Flight Risk, his latest project, is no exception. This stripped-down, 90-minute thriller unfolds almost entirely […]
President Donald Trump does so many big things fast that each one crowds out what was shocking only a day or hour before. It has been less than a month, for example, since he pardoned everyone who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but it seems like ancient history. To his critics, this […]
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order last month to pause a ban on TikTok for 75 days. An outbreak of posts featuring reactions from tears over the app’s ban to joyful celebrations of its return filled social media. Arguments over the ban’s constitutionality will continue, but the 12-hour freeze of TikTok highlighted a significant problem: addiction. TikTok, which merged […]
The U.S. Agency for International Development’s efforts to remake the world in the image of a woke America are coming to a screeching halt. Elections have consequences, and the 2024 cycle may have been one of the most consequential in our history. This is why Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday that he is […]
Without question, the formation of the Abraham Accords was the greatest foreign policy achievement of Donald Trump’s first term as president. The major step toward Arab-Israeli normalization was a blow to the Iranian regime’s ambitions for regional hegemony, took pressure off American resources, and provides a glimpse of what a future of peace might look […]
President Donald Trump’s return to the White House set off a slew of “hand-wringing” about the future of the global order. While commentators theorized that Trump, along with other quasi-populists such as Argentina’s Javier Milei and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, was a rejection of the so-called elite, they also proclaimed it another nail in the coffin […]
In the early morning hours of Dec. 4, 2024, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione walked along the sidewalk in front of the New York Hilton in Midtown Manhattan, raised his pistol, and shot 50-year-old Brian Thompson dead. The brazen killing, caught on CCTV, sent shock waves around the country. A father of two was killed by what […]
Akash Bobba’s Hindu parents came to New Jersey from India after his father, Jay, secured an H-1B visa. Akash wrote artificial intelligence models for Meta when he was 19 years old and interned with Palantir at 20. Luke Farritor was a senior at the University of Nebraska when he designed an AI program that made […]
In a marvelous phrase, Erich Heller credited Franz Kafka with having achieved “the most obscure lucidity in the history of literature.” Heller’s witty oxymoron could be applied with equal justice to the French writer Patrick Modiano, the author of roughly two dozen novels and novellas and winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. When […]
Over at the group therapy session that is Slate magazine’s advice column, the latest liberal to lament their financial woes whines that after finally becoming a first-time homebuyer, “the absolute worst-case scenario happened.” Did Hurricane Helene wash the home away? Did the Palisades Fire burn it to the ground? Did a career criminal repeatedly released […]
In the wake of the tragic crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 with an Army Black Hawk helicopter over Washington, D.C., and the Learjet 55 crash in Philadelphia, I’m reminded of a plane crash during my time in the Afghanistan War and how a group of soldiers with whom I served barely escaped a terrible […]
“On most Sundays,” the rector of an Episcopal church told me last summer with a smile, “most of my congregation is pretty staunchly Episcopalian. But every now and then, they’re Baptists and they don’t know it.” This is what he meant: The Anglican tradition states that during the Eucharist, there is a “real presence” of […]
What is it about the Wild West that keeps us coming back for more? Surely the popular appeal of the Western, on the page, on the stage, and on the screen, derives at least in part from prurience — the ever-present blood, guts, and sex on prominent display in an untamed land. On top of […]
