In the Current Crisis, Postal Preservation Must Come Before Postal Reform
America is – and for some time will be — a long way from what any of us would describe as normal. The COVID-19 pandemic, which has us living in…
I Went to a Socialism Conference Last Year. Consider Me Scared.
Key point: There wasn’t a wide gap between what was being discussed at Socialism 2019 and the ideas emerging from a growing segment of the American left. While you were enjoying…
Why Bernie Sanders’s Praise of Fidel Castro Matters
Did you know that infamous Nazi Hermann Göring was a great lover of animals, a protector of birds, and head of the forestry service in Germany? Unless you’re a history buff, probably not.…
IT’S TIME TO MAKE GEORGE WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY A NATIONAL HOLIDAY AGAIN | OPINION
Now especially, America needs its heroes. The nation is badly divided along ideological lines without any unifying figures to bring us together. We are losing, or may have already lost,…
The Era of Limbaugh
Florida governor Ron DeSantis spoke to Rush Limbaugh last fall at a gala dinner for the National Review Institute. The radio host was there to receive the William F. Buckley…
Them the People
Iain Murray grew up reading and writing by candlelight, not because he lived in premodern times but because he lived under democratic socialism. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and other…
The Democratic Establishment Still Fears An Open Socialist Winning The Nomination
On Sunday evening, NBC News reported that former Secretary of State John Kerry, while stumping for former Vice President Joe Biden in Iowa, was overheard in a Des Moines hotel describing the…
Trump Admin Says Israel Has Accepted Plan for Palestinian State
Israeli leaders have agreed to a framework for a Palestinian state that would see the new country more than double in size with its capital located in Eastern Jerusalem, according…
Iran’s Cat And Mouse Game: A Final Outcome in the Making
Historically, efforts to prevent dead set regimes from acquiring nuclear weapons have been marked mostly by embarrassing diplomatic fiascos. The chronology of every state-sponsored nuclear program began with developing the…
Wages Soar Fastest among Those with the Least
It’s an article of liberal faith: Thanks to President Donald Trump’s $1.5 trillion Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the prosecco is popping on Wall Street, while the unsold Pepsi gathers…
The Philadelphia City Council Moves Further Left; What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
It is arguable that foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia is already so messed up that it can’t be made much worse, but some new City Councilmen are going to…
Good economic news this holiday season
How good is the U.S. economy? So good that even CNN, the monomanically anti-Trump television network, was forced to admit it last week. “As 2019 comes to a close, the US…
No protests as Democrats whitewash their presidential debate
It’s official. Black Lives really don’t Matter. At least not inside the Democratic Party. For a party so thoroughly obsessed with race, it is amazing just how white they are.…
How Trump Won 2019
President Trump ends 2019 in a better position than when he started. The year began with the swearing in of Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the House. The Mueller probe…