President Donald Trump has dismissed the matter of “affordability” as a hoax, but voters consistently name the cost of living as the matter most likely to affect their votes next year, even as inflation has slowed since Trump took office. Unfortunately for those voters, the Democratic Party contrasts itself to Trump only with policies that […]
Turkish police on Thursday said they arrested 115 ISIS suspects allegedly tied to plots related to Christmas and New Year celebrations. The Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office said the "ISIS Armed Terrorist Organization was planning to carry out actions targeting our country, especially non-Muslim individuals, within the scope of the upcoming Christmas and New Year events,” according...
Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pope, offered his first Christmas sermon as pontiff on Thursday, praying for peace from wars and freedom from economic distress. A crowd of 26,000 gathered to hear the words of the pontiff during the annual “Urbi et Orbi” address from the Central Loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica. “If he...
Hawaii occupies a strange place in the consciousness of most Americans. For most of us, it’s a vacation spot. A tropical island paradise with idyllic beaches, majestic waves, and towering volcanoes. But Hawaii’s history is also one that is completely different from the 49 mainland states. It is one of only two states that, as […]
If you were born in the late 1930s, the chances of you declaring yourself to be what we call “transgender” or “nonbinary” as an adult were almost zero. For the next 60 years, that number hovered around 0.4%, despite dramatic changes in sexual equality and sexual morality. This number rose suddenly after 2008, when the cohort born […]
“My name is Ernie. I am here as a representative of a small town called Charleroi, PA, which you may have heard about here on the news recently,” truck driver Ernie Merritt told a Trump campaign rally in western Pennsylvania, last September. “Over half of our town is now filled with Haitian immigrants and illegal […]
There has never been a better time to be a filthy rich automotive enthusiast. From the $3 million Gordon Murray T.50, perhaps the most pedigreed and purist-oriented hypercar in human history, to the astounding new $5.5 million Bugatti Tourbillon with its purely mechanical instrument cluster and 276-mph top speed, the diversity and sheer opulence of […]
First published in France in 1973, Jean Raspail’s novel The Camp of the Saints is one of those books many talk about but very few appear to have actually read. After a long period out of print, rumored to be for political reasons, the book has circulated for years in the form of PDFs and […]
A friend asked me to come to his birthday dinner next week. “That is,” he added, “if they’ll let you out.” “Let me out?” I asked. I have been a student at the Princeton Theological Seminary for more than a year. I’m about mid-way through the Master’s in Divinity program, on my way — God […]
In the mid-1990s, the late Sen. Joseph Lieberman, then an Orthodox Jewish Connecticut Democrat, and Sen. Daniel Coats, an evangelical Indiana Republican, founded the Center for Judeo-Christian Values in America to promote “the value of human life; the sanctity of the traditional family; the value of hard work, responsibility, honesty, loyalty, compassion and tolerance; and […]
People sometimes don’t realize how much of the training soldiers get is about saving lives, not taking them. Throughout my enlistment, we were often stuck reviewing medical stuff. As a combat engineer, I understood the importance of soldiers being prepared to treat wounded comrades, but I hated medical training. Evaluate a casualty: “Calmly ask in […]
In modern America, most people would agree that the job of the White House press secretary is to lie to the press. That was not always the case. Certainly, all members of a president’s administration would be partial to their boss’s side of things, but the job was created to inform, not to obfuscate. That […]
Luca Guadagnino’s new MeToo-era drama After the Hunt begins with a credit sequence that meticulously recreates those that have adorned Woody Allen’s movies for the past 50 years: the names appear in a slender Windsor typeface on black. Guadagnino goes so far as to list the cast in alphabetical order, as is Allen’s wont, along […]
