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Fast-Changing Events Making, or Remaking, History Jun. 20, 2025
Events are moving fast. Seven days ago, as I write, Israel had not yet launched its first attacks on... Read More
Moving Away From the Template of 'Oppressor vs. Oppressed' May. 10, 2024
The violent campus takeover by protesters — some of them students, many not — has had th... Read More
Biden Open-Door Policy: Some Facts and Historical Context Feb. 23, 2024
What's been missing these past couple of months from the coverage of and debate over the failed immi... Read More
America's Dysfunctional Overclass Feb. 16, 2024
What does America's overclass think of the rest of us? The short answer is "not much." They think or... Read More
Toward a Demotic Republican Party Feb. 09, 2024
What happens when a political party becomes demotic? Before answering the question, note that the wo... Read More
Systemic Lying Corrodes Once-great Institutions Feb. 02, 2024
The last six or seven months have been a couple of tough seasons for public policies based on lies. ... Read More
DeSantis Withdrawal Paved the Way for Likely Trump-Biden Rematch Jan. 26, 2024
What went wrong with Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign? You can list many arguable mistakes, as yo... Read More
No Gary Hart Bounce for DeSantis or Haley Jan. 19, 2024
Forty years ago, when Walter Mondale won 49% in Iowa's Democratic caucuses, far ahead of Gary Hart's... Read More
Democracy Not at Risk, but Not Operating Optimally Jan. 12, 2024
Is democracy at risk this election year? Yup, is the answer given by President Joe Biden in his spee... Read More
Our Inevitably Negative Politics Jan. 05, 2024
To explain the latest young generation's pessimism, Washington Post opinion writer Taylor Lorenz too... Read More
Startling Surprises in Latest Census Numbers Dec. 29, 2023
How's America doing? Government statisticians provide mounds of data that provide useful clues, and ... Read More
The Politics of Incumbent Rejection Dec. 22, 2023
At a time when voters have rejected the party of the incumbent president in the last two elections, ... Read More
The Intellectual Elite's Institutional Rot Dec. 15, 2023
Institutional rot. That's the verdict recorded in recent days on the performance of leading institut... Read More
For True Evil, Look Not to Israel or America but to Communism Dec. 08, 2023
For those dismayed at how many college and university students and faculty, even, or especially, at ... Read More
Orwell and Monroe Got It Right Dec. 01, 2023
George Orwell, call your office. That's my initial and slightly out-of-date response to news stories... Read More
Give Thanks to the Founders Nov. 22, 2023
There's plenty to be thankful for this Thanksgiving season — at least if you take your eyes of... Read More
Memo to Hamas: Settler Societies Aren't Evil Nov. 17, 2023
In the nauseating demonstrations celebrating Hamas' slaughter of Israelis, one hears repeated, again... Read More
Young Voters Spring (Contradictory) Political Surprises Nov. 10, 2023
What's with young voters? It's a question prompted by two surprising and perhaps contradictory devel... Read More
Is a Trump Renomination Really Inevitable? Nov. 03, 2023
Is it inevitable that Donald Trump will be the second person in history — Richard Nixon was th... Read More
Can a New Speaker Reinstate an Old Norm? Oct. 27, 2023
After a little more than three weeks, House Republicans have finally elected a speaker. He's Mike Jo... Read More
