During the pandemic, someone shared a meme of President Donald Trump in his gilded New York apartment. Near him, first lady Melania Trump draped herself over a piano, while their son, Baron Trump, sat astride a stuffed tiger. The image was accompanied by a question: “If Trump got Covid and lost his sense of taste, […]

Political violence is woven into the fabric of American history. The early republic faced uprisings like Shays’ Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion, alongside the fatal duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. Then, a period of intense civil unrest spawned the Civil War. CHARLIE KIRK AND THIS WATERSHED MOMENT FOR AMERICAN RENEWAL The Ku Klux […]

It started as a piece in May in the Washington Examiner. It’s now becoming a reality. Next year, I hope to hold an Anti-Communist Film Festival. As I wrote in May, a film festival showing great anti-communist movies is a great way to celebrate freedom and inoculate people against the evils of Marxism. It could also be […]

Somalia collapsed in 1991, its economy and state structures destroyed by dictator Siad Barre, a man with no legitimacy beyond his clan but who had for decades grifted first off Moscow and then Washington. He fled first to Kenya and then Nigeria, where he died in exile four years later. As Somalia descended into state […]

Most of the unhinged takes in the wake of the highest-profile political assassination in the United States since 1968 have come, unsurprisingly, from the Left. Conservatives mourned, prayed, and attended vigils instead of rioting and looting like their political opponents. There were no calls for retaliatory assassinations or any form of political violence as millions of leftists […]

President Donald Trump promised to protect free speech as president. His record is very mixed on that count. Still, Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, apparently doesn’t even understand basic facts about the First Amendment. Indeed, Bondi signaled her intent to violate it. During a podcast interview this week, Bondi spoke about the aftermath of the […]

Feelings are running high in the Trump administration after the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, so, understandably, officeholders such as Attorney General Pam Bondi want to do everything they can to ensure such an assassination never happens again. But her recent comments on imminent action against hate speech, threats of violence, and civil rights […]