We all know how Cole Tomas Allen was radicalized
This column is about the relation between rhetoric and reality, with special reference to political violence and security. Everyone reading…
Shots fired at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Donald and Melania Trump entered the hall at 8:16 to cheers and applause. “Hail to the Chief” was followed by…
Sorry, but America still holds all the cards
“Negotiations.” Are you heartened or dismayed by that word? Those who remember or who have read up on the seemingly…
Ignore the propaganda war
Prediction: by the time you read this, the joint US-Israeli operation in Iran will be all but over. In fact,…
Trump touts the successes of his war for peace
“Ceasefire!” Some people worried that President Trump was taking to the air waves tonight in order to declare a ceasefire with Iran. That, clearly,…
Trump has given America back its heroes
This weekend, two statues were installed on the White House grounds. On the north side of the Eisenhower Executive Office…
Can Trump defeat Senate Republicans over the SAVE Act?
I know that the world is focused on Iran but here’s what President Trump wrote on Truth Social Sunday about…
When will Kash Patel unleash epic fury on the FBI?
As I write, the Washington Post is carrying an obituary about the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – or maybe it is about Santa…
Trump’s State of the Union address was pure theater
Watching Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address tonight, I thought of two homely things. One was something that a…
Trumponomics is working
Remember the old quip about economists? “That’s all very in practice,” they say, “but how does it work out in…
Is this the denouement of the 2020 election?
Where is it that the chickens go to roost? If you said “home,” you don’t quite get it. The correct…
Why can’t Democrats speak frankly about Iran?
The manicured grounds of Harvard University are tranquil. Ditto the expensive quads of Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Stanford. All across the fruited…
America’s Somalis and the ‘learing’ explosion
I suspect that Somalis around the country – especially, but not exclusively, in Minneapolis – wish about now that they…
The case for annexing Greenland
What do you think: is it manifest destiny that the United States acquire or at least exercise control over Greenland?…
Beware Mamdani’s ‘warmth of collectivism’
One of the things I admire about Zohran Mamdani is his candor. You know where you stand with him. Mamdani, who was…
The Somali fraud scandal is a turning point
I suspect that Somalis around the country – especially, but not exclusively, in Minneapolis – wish about now that they…
Trump reels off 2025 achievements in White House address
As a mighty US armada bobs in the Caribbean off the shores of Venezuela, President Trump just addressed the nation…
America’s free-speech war on the EU
If I were a bookie, I would be making odds now about when the European Union will finally unravel and…
The attack on the Heritage Foundation is an attack on MAGA
It’s Thursday morning as I write. Has The Wall Street Journal weighed in with another attack on Kevin Roberts yet, the besieged president of the Heritage Foundation? No?…
What doesn’t kill Egly-Ouriet makes it stronger
In recent columns, we have visited some lesser known spots in Burgundy – Saint-Romain, Maranges, Ladoix – where the wines…
Trump inherited a weaponized justice system
Has Donald Trump “weaponized” the justice system to go after his political enemies? The answer is no. “What about former…
Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk have exposed the media’s depravity
“Clarifying.” It seems almost obscene to say that the murders of Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk were “clarifying.” But the…
The bloodthirstiness of the left is not new
The savage assassination of Charlie Kirk at a Turning Point rally at Utah Valley University yesterday prompts me to wonder, as I…
Poland’s Nawrocki heralds a more mature populism
Yesterday, September 3, President Trump welcomed Karol Nawrocki, the newly inaugurated president of Poland to the White House. It was a…
Trump is liberating the Smithsonians from ‘Woke’
Back in March, Donald Trump issued an executive order called “Restoring Truth And Sanity To American History.” Its aim was…
