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Time to Stop Appeasing Terrorist Iran Oct. 20, 2023
The 2020s are starting to look like the 1930s, as I wrote last week in the wake of Hamas' unpreceden... Read More
The Gathering Storm Oct. 13, 2023
Russia has been attacking Ukraine for 20 months now. Iran, through its terrorism partner Hamas, atta... Read More
New Deal Politics Turned Upside Down Oct. 06, 2023
"The World Turned Upside Down." That's the song, or so longstanding legend would have it, that the B... Read More
The Problems With Net Zero Sep. 27, 2023
Net zero is in trouble. In utterly predictable trouble, in the king's-wearing-no-clothes trouble. Th... Read More
The Surge of Populism -- and Nationalism Sep. 22, 2023
"Populist politicians and parties," writes the Ethics and Public Policy Center's Henry Olsen in The ... Read More
People of Color Trending Republican Sep. 15, 2023
Are non-white voters really moving away from the Democratic Party? To partisan Democrats confronti... Read More
The Tom and Daisy Buchanans North of Richmond Sep. 01, 2023
"These rich men north of Richmond, Lord knows they just wanna have total control." So goes the refra... Read More
Republican Debate: Whatever Happened in the Debate, Fundamentals Could Still Matter Aug. 25, 2023
Having completed the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign cycle, it's tempting to focus on... Read More
Single Women Are the Odd Men Out, Politically Aug. 18, 2023
America's political parties are the oldest and third-oldest in the world, and they have competed for... Read More
Which States Attract Outsiders and Which Don't -- 21st Century Version Aug. 11, 2023
Let's take a time out from reports of indictments and threats of impeachment, from nostalgia for the... Read More
The Proximal Origin of a Scientific Fraud Jul. 28, 2023
"We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible." That's the key sentence... Read More
The Press's War Against Free Speech Jul. 21, 2023
Have we gotten to the point that it's politically necessary to defend the principle of free speech? ... Read More
Different Groups That 'Don't Look Like America' Together Produce Success in America Jul. 14, 2023
News stories have reported that despite the Supreme Court's decision in cases brought against Harvar... Read More
Supreme Court Rejects Liberal Arguments Based on Lies Jul. 07, 2023
"This is not a normal court." So said President Joe Biden last week as the Supreme Court was handing... Read More
The Arc of the Moral Universe Just Wobbles Around Jun. 30, 2023
No one knows whether last weekend's Wagner Group uprising means the end of President Vladimir Putin'... Read More
A Tale of Two Indictments: Politics in a Doom Loop Jun. 23, 2023
Are America's 45th and 46th presidents politically invulnerable? That's a conclusion you might come ... Read More
The Trump Indictment: Irresponsibility Squared Jun. 16, 2023
Some observations on special counsel Jack Smith's indictment of former President Donald Trump: No. 1... Read More
Sununu's Good Move and Bad Advice Jun. 09, 2023
Gov. Chris Sununu (R-N.H.) is not running for president. In his state's first-in-the-nation primary,... Read More
Only One Republican Candidate Gets Results Jun. 02, 2023
The Wollman Rink episode, or, rather, the unduly optimistic conclusion I drew from it, explains a lo... Read More
Mugged by Reality? Or Respectful of Common Sense? May. 26, 2023
A conservative, to paraphrase and slightly alter Irving Kristol's saying, is a liberal who has been ... Read More
