What to do when you only have modest wine on hand for a decorous guest
So, I’ve have been rooting around in Horace’s Epistles, which are full of amusing things. They really are not “epistles” in…
Is America a republic in name only?
Is the United States a one-party state? Surely not. Just look at the ballots the next time you vote. There…
A disastrous DeSantis 2024 ‘launch’ on Twitter Spaces
Free tickets to Disney World: maybe that’s what Ron the aspiring Don should give to the clever staffer who thought of…
John Durham exposes the whole anti-Trump caper
Well, well, well. That is to say, I told you so. Finally, at last, it was about time, scary-looking special counsel John…
Is it too late to save America?
Regular readers may recall how fond I am of a mot from the British diplomat, author and art collector Edgar Vincent, the…
Could the Blinken revelations lead to Biden’s impeachment?
What’s that flapping sound? Could it be the sound of chickens coming home to roost? Or maybe it’s just the grating…
The Democrats will come to rue this Trump indictment
So, everyone was even more right than they thought: Alvin Bragg’s breathlessly awaited arraignment of former president Donald Trump really…
A history lesson for Joe Biden
Some moderately clever people, reflecting on the confusing morass of current events, knowingly quote George Santayana’s most famous observation: that…
Even Biden knows Kamala is useless
As the song in “Li’l Abner” said, “The Country’s in the Very Best of Hands.” I wonder if Joe Biden…
How to wine and dine
If you dare to host a dinner party, said Brillat-Savarin, you must be prepared to be responsible for your guests’…
The unraveling of Joe Biden: a retrospective
Looking back on the classified docudrama that brought down the Biden administration, it is still not easy to identify the exact…
How will the GOP survive without Paul Ryan?!
Psychologists and self-help gurus agree: it’s the little things that bring a smile to one’s lips and impart savor to…
Stepping out into freedom
Given the fire-hose disgorgement of revelations about the behavior of the FBI, the CIA and their infiltration of the mainstream media,…
It’s different when Biden gets caught with classified docs
So where are the FBI SWAT teams? Will they be raiding Joe Biden’s private office at the Penn Biden Center…
Why globalism is the enemy of freedom
I was recently asked to say a few words about “Globalism and Freedom” at a conference sponsored by Hillsdale College in…
The Deep State vs Donald Trump saga is not over
As I have said before, I hope that the new Congress, which begins its session in just a couple of…
The Republican march on Rome
Perhaps the greatest defeat the Roman Republic ever suffered was at the hands of Hannibal at the Battle of Cannae…
How did I get the midterms so wrong?
How wrong can you be? About as wrong as I was about the character of the midterm elections. I thought…
The FBI will face a reckoning after the midterms
It is said that towards the end his life as he sank into dementia, Maurice Ravel was tormented by the…
How the midterm polls became Democratic fan fiction
Psephologists of the world unite: you have nothing to lose but your fibs! I write toward the end of September,…
A history lesson for Donald Trump
I take a page from history. On Thursday, the Committee (you know which one) voted 9-0 to subpoena the former…
Biden declares war on half the country
Joe Biden’s speech at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall on Thursday was one of the most remarkable in living memory. By “remarkable,” I…
Liz Cheney: the self-appointed moral center of the GOP
I was hoping that I wouldn’t have to write about Liz Cheney again. After she was crushed by the Trump-endorsed Harriet…
The real motivation for the FBI raid
I write a day after the FBI, without warning, raided Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s home in Palm Beach. According to Trump, agents…
Donald Trump has enemies everywhere
I think that Michael Anton is correct that “the people who really run the United States of America have made it clear…