'Terrorist Minds' illustrates a consistent blind spot on the part of terrorism scholars—left-wing terrorism.
Year: 2024
The Foundations of Faith
Nicholas Orme has had the original idea of treating England's great cathedrals as a single class of cultural architecture, encapsulating the English religious imagination at its most expansive.
Can’t Keep A Great Man Down
John Ganz focuses on American cultural and political wars during the 1990s, when two maverick candidates, Patrick J. Buchanan and H. Ross Perot, rocked the world of staid mainstream conservatism.
Books in Brief: October 2024
Short reviews of Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen, and Adam and Eve after the Pill by Mary Eberstadt.
Can’t We All Just Make Better Movies?
The sheer incongruity of the deceased Ray Liotta appearing in a new release added a hint of fascination to "1992," an otherwise formulaic heist picture produced by rap artist Snoop Dogg.
How the Medical Industry’s Consensus on Sex Changes Fell Apart
High-ranking officials in the Biden administration worked with a transgender NGO to promote mutilating sex-change procedures for minors, according to a recent court-ordered document release.
Kamala Harris Has No Business in Politics
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown knew what he was doing when he dumped Kamala Harris. She’s not up to snuff.
Will Ireland Remain Irish?
Mass third-world immigration threatens Irish identity and stretches social services to the breaking point. It remains to be seen whether Ireland will remain Irish.
The West’s Fraudulent Democracies
Western elites consider transgenderist ideology and mass immigration foundational to democracy, while in truth they are destructive of all things democratic.
Anarcho-Tyranny in Aurora
As Venezuelan gang members harass and pillage tenants in one Colorado city, the local authorities blame landlords. Anarcho-tyranny has come to Colorado.
From the Devil to the Deep Blue Sea
Has Uncle Sam indeed signed a Faustian bargain with the Israelis? If so, who is Mephistopheles in the tale?
Iran Targets America’s Elections—and Trump
Liberals accuse Trump of being cozy with dictators, but the dictators of Iran's cruel and corrupt regime find comfort only with Trump's Democratic opponents.
Trump’s Public Opinion Coup on Immigration
Kamala Harris’s contrived photo-op visit to the border demonstrates how Trump’s immigration nationalism has become the norm.
More Adults Need to Learn From This North Carolina Teenager’s Courage
A 15-year-old North Carolina high school student spoke more truth to power at a recent school board meeting than many adults can muster. We all need to stand up to the perversion in our schools.
Seeking Silence
Our constant and artificial encounters with devices are keeping us from the more meaningful encounters with God and other human beings.
New Reagan Biopic Falls Short
The film does very little to resolve Ronald Reagan’s disputed legacy and may, unwittingly, reinforce many of the left’s false caricatures.
The Amy Wax Inflection Point for ‘Elite’ Higher Education
The Amy Wax struggle session shows that the process is the real punishment. And the indignity is the whole point.
In Defense of Amy Wax
Professor Amy Wax is being punished for being an effective apostate.
The University of Pennsylvania Strikes a Blow Against Free Speech
The university’s decision to suspend law professor Amy Wax for politically incorrect statements should concern all Americans who care about free expression.
Bezos Gets It Backwards: He Should Run Amazon Like the Post and the Post Like Amazon
Jeff Bezos has an employee retention problem at both of his companies: Amazon can’t keep them, and The Washington Post can’t get rid of them.
Hezbollah Degraded
Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to switch the focus from Gaza in the south to Hezbollah in the north was an operational success of the highest order and a political masterpiece.
A Harris Presidency Will Give Sanctuary to Gang Members, Victimize Law-Abiding People
If Kamala wins, so do the gangs.
‘Smurfing’ Is Corrupting American Elections
A widespread illegal campaign finance practice called “smurfing” steals the identities of small-dollar donors and uses them to mask repeat campaign contributions by the wealthy.
A Grimdark Videogame Masterpiece
The newly released Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 shows the ways that video games can be authentic art and drive the politically correct busybodies in media crazy.
Trump’s Would-Be Assassin’s Explanation
If Democrats don’t weigh their words more carefully, more violence will follow from the likes of Ryan Routh.
False Narratives Driving America’s Immigration Policies
Before any serious work can be done to correct America’s border policy failures, we must dispel the false narratives about immigration that too many Americans still accept as fact.
Schadenfreude for National Review’s ‘Canceled’ Editor-in-Chief
It is difficult to summon sympathy for Rich Lowry, who has engaged in exactly the kind of willful canceling of others as is happening to him now.
Whistleblower Claims ABC News Colluded with Democrats in Debate Prep
Very little is known about the woman who could be elected president in November. ABC News appears to have colluded with Kamala Harris’s campaign to keep it that way.
‘Exemplum’s’ Paul Roland on Faith and Movie Making
An interview with the young Catholic filmmaker who made a movie with just $10,000 and got a 100 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Why Are the Nutjobs Trying to Kill Political Opponents All Left-Wingers?
The Left has had a violent streak going back at least as far as Karl Marx's calls for a global revolution of the proletariat—and the French Revolution even before that.
The Self-Sabotage of Abortion ‘Rights’ Absolutists
Abortion rights absolutists don’t realize how unsafe and unsavory abortion can be when the civilization that values female safety and health is destroyed.
College Sports Are Essential
Despite the resentful envy most academics have for athletes, sports are critical to a balanced education.
Joe Biden, 20 Years Ago, Blocked the Potential First Black Female on the Supreme Court
Joe Biden repeatedly blocked the path of Janice Rogers Brown when she was being considered for the Court.
The Harris-Walz Cosplay Campaign: A Theater of the Absurd
Best get your tickets to the Harris-Walz cosplay campaign’s theater of the absurd. Their show closes in November.
RFK Jr.’s Masterpiece of Political Oratory
The former Democrat demonstrated what it takes to deliver a convincing and rousing political speech. The old and nearly lost art is due for a revival.
Reparations: Unconstitutional and Divisive
Is Kamala Harris backing these giveaways?
Who or What Now Governs America?
Clues from three key players suggest a cabal of commie aficionados beginning with the president who never left D.C.
When Character Assassination Becomes the Real Thing
Routh took both literally and seriously Democrats and progressives who say Trump is a threat to America's institutions and the rule of law itself.
Yard Sign Disunity and Cognitive Dissonance
The Harris campaign of “joy and unity” might want to have a few words with its enthusiastic yard-sign-posting supporters.
The Racial Hatred Behind Anti-Trump Extremism
After a second assassination attempt, ordinary Americans are beginning to see that those who hate Trump hate them, too.
‘They Want Government to Be God’
The latest God’s Not Dead is the bravest movie of the fall season, Mark Judge writes. Read his interview with the film's cast.
Abortion Is Not Really the Issue
There is something completely irrational about the United States’ perpetually aggrieved female voters. Trying to appease this demographic is an exercise in futility.
Trump Keeps It Real at ABC’s Rigged Debate
Harris got under Trump’s skin, but she did nothing to alter the perception that she belongs to the status quo. She did not articulate a vision for the future, lay out an economic plan, or clarify how her hard-left views have changed.
White Guys and 9/11
Whiteness and maleness lately have been under constant attack. It’s worth remembering that 23 years ago our culture celebrated four white male heroes who stopped a terrorist attack in the skies above Pennsylvania.
Dick Cheney’s Faustian Final Gesture
A former Cheney staffer looks back with sadness at a man who refused to admit his errors and who is ending his career as a Republican politician with a spite-motivated endorsement of the opposition.
Kamala Harris Runs Like a Republican—and Misleads on Tariffs
Kamala Harris—the incumbent Democrat Vice President—frames herself as Republican challenger. This messaging is misleading, but some free-market wonks are playing along.
Germany’s AfD Derangement Syndrome
The leftist hysteria that frames its opposition as Nazis has finally subsided in the U.S., but in Germany it’s just getting started.
This Is America’s Last Chance
Once freedom is lost it won’t come back.
California’s September Surprise
Politiqueros Pelosi and Newsom ramp up bribes for America’s imported electorate.
Harris Avoids Interviews Because She Can
Welcome to modern journalism. Water is wet. Sky is blue. Trump is a fascist.