In praise of Kayleigh McEnany
Is Kayleigh McEnany the best Press Secretary in history? I think she may be. True, it’s early days. She was…
Let’s blame China
This article is in The Spectator’s June 2020 US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. Is Cui Tiankai, the Chinese ambassador to…
Bill Barr and the single standard of justice
You have to hand it to the New York Times. They certainly know how to spin a story. Yesterday, Attorney General William…
Cuomo’s COVID carnage
Have we reached peak Cuomo? I think that the climacteric came when the media was aflutter with rumors that the…
Flynnocent: why the general has a long way to go before justice is served
Just moments ago, the news came in that Department of, um, Justice has dropped its — ‘um’ again — Gen.…
The shameful smearing of Michael Flynn
Among other things, the case of Gen. Michael Flynn reminds us of the old adage that things are always worse…
The fatality rate of our CCP virus overreaction
This article is in The Spectator’s May 2020 US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. I think it was Sir Charles Dilke…
Will the coronavirus succeed where Russiagate and Ukrainegate failed?
Back on March 12, I noted in this space that one of the most potent effects of our latest Chinese…
Barack Obama’s endorsement of Joe Biden is comedy gold
Anyone who doubts that Barack Obama has a sense of humor should take a look of his endorsement of Joe Biden…
The case for reopening the country now
More and more people, I suspect, are padding about muttering lines from Psalm 13: ‘How long, O Lord,…How long must I…
The Democrats just made a huge mistake
‘Never let a good crisis go to waste.’ When Rahm Emanuel said that during the economic meltdown of 2008-2009, his…
Panic among the pigeons
Life is a risky business. Danger is everywhere. In New York, even the pigeons are a threat. A friend recalled…
COVID-19 is terrifying — as a weapon of political propaganda
The president delivered an address last night about the Wuhan flu, aka novel coronavirus, aka (if you want to sound…
Time to scrap the Goldwater Rule
This article is in The Spectator’s April 2020 US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. There are few ironclad rules in…
Super Tuesday’s real winner was Donald Trump
Was I wrong, or only early? After Joe Biden’s win in the South Carolina primary, I wrote that his victory…
Biden wins the South Carolina puppy bowl
The way our politics has shaped up (up? has it shaped up?), the South Carolina primary is a bit like the puppy…
Donald Trump vs corona hysteria
I like to keep a couple of books within easy reach of my desk to remind myself what sort of…
Pete Buttigieg isn’t going to win
I see that various pundits are competing to write the political epitaph for Joe ‘son-of-a-bitch‘ Biden. That’s entirely understandable. It’s been…
Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address was nothing less than magnificent
One of the many things that F. Scott Fitzgerald said that sound good but aren’t true is this: ‘There are…
The impeachment ‘sea change’ shows Trump can beat anyone in 2020
I address you, Dear Reader, from some 36,000 feet above the fruited plain. But since, before embarking, news that Sen.…
Donald at Davos: Trump teaches a lesson to the crybabies back home
It’s actually sort of cute, at least from a distance. There the Democrats are, playing on their hobbyhorses with all…
Impeachment is now just another bludgeon in the armory of political warfare
A couple of days ago, members of the United States House of Representatives processed with all their accustomed pomp and dignity…
Eliminating Qasem Soleimani was Donald Trump’s Middle East farewell letter
In July 55 BC, in the midst of his campaigns to civilize Gaul, Julius Caesar was troubled by the Germans.…
Polls apart
This article is in The Spectator’s January 2020 US edition. Subscribe here. Galileo famously said that the book of nature is written…
The ‘impeachment’ of Donald Trump
Did we just witness an historic event, the impeachment of only the third president in the entire history of the…
