Given how spectacularly wrong they’ve been proven over the past two generations, you would think the anti-population crowd would be pretty chastened. And to be fair, it is getting quieter and more modest in its aims. Back in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, and even into the 1990s, it was chic to freak out about […]
When al Qaeda and Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praised America’s pro-Hamas students, they were applauding something larger than collegiate intramural hate teams. They were relishing the results of a multibillion-dollar scheme that began before Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel — one that will likely continue long after the last campus encampment is cleared. The […]
It’s not only the economy, stupid. Especially when the economy may already be improving. Republicans this year seem to be over-enamored of Democratic strategist James Carville’s wisdom from the 1992 presidential race, when he famously insisted that then-candidate Bill Clinton’s campaign forget left-wing wish lists and instead focus on the relatively weak economy under then-President […]
Until its final act, Karin Ainouz’s Firebrand is a phenomenal and frankly overdue retelling of how the final wife of Henry VIII barely escaped her unwanted marriage with her head intact. The real and unbelievable saga of Catherine Parr, the last of the English king’s six wives, is woefully untold, and when fictionalized, usually as […]