After Pew’s review of the 2024 election, the GOP can never again claim that immigration restriction and winning minority voters are mutually exclusive.
Year: 2025
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A Progressive Bonfire of the Vanities, ‘Mad-Mani’ Style
In New York City, a new coalition of sanity needs to be built and built quickly.
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Epstein Wide Shut
We are not equipped to understand the perverse depths of elite power. Morbid speculation on the unknowable will only lead to self-defeat.
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The UK’s Free Speech Proxy War
The United Kingdom serves as a cautionary tale for the United States when it comes to free speech—the crackdown there could soon be copied here.
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What Trump Knows About Superman
Donald Trump understands America and Superman better than the Hollywood director who tries to pull a fast one in this new adaptation.
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DeMaurice Smith Fumbles in His Turf War
The former head of the NFL Players Association extrapolates personal grievance into an indictment of an entire industry and of America itself.
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‘Toxic Masculinity’ Strikes Again in Texas Floods
In saving the lives of so many during the Texas floods, the name Scott Ruskan has inspired deserved accolades. Why didn’t Daniel Penny?
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FBIntrigue
Evidence is accumulating about how the agency looked the other way when confronted with China’s 2020 election interference, and a whole lot more.
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A Courageous and Painful Reckoning
Conservative economist and public intellectual Glenn Loury recounts his own struggle for political and personal responsibility in a new autobiography.
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The Krakening of Bondi and Patel
The lesson to be learned from the Jeffrey Epstein files saga is that the attorney general and the director of the FBI should not be commenting on evidence they have not personally reviewed.
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Surviving the Left’s Shame Storm
The feeling of intense shame is a difficult thing to navigate—which is precisely why the left has weaponized it.
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Ex-Dem Rep: The N-Word Causes Cancer
The never-ending quest to describe blacks as helpless victims of oppression has discovered a new frontier.
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A Model Neocon
While the broader conservative movement at least pretends to hear the people’s call for an end to forever wars, National Review’s Noah Rothman remains a stalwart defender of the neocon orthodoxy.
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It’s Time for the Feds To Take Over Columbia University
If Columbia University’s acting president, Claire Shipman, fails to end the harassment of students and destruction of property from far-left and pro-Hamas activists on campus, the feds should step in.
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CIAmerica
America’s real secret government was exposed by the work of the late Angelo Codevilla. His advice to prosecute the evildoers in the American intelligence community should be heeded.
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Vulnerable Power
In this liminal shift between the old and the new, pop star Sabrina Carpenter seems to embrace something closer to the vulnerability that represents true feminine power.
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A Big Beautiful Test of GOP Principles and Discipline
If there were serious divisions in the Republican Party, Trump would have lost this fight.
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Exposing the Palo Alto-Deep State Cabal
When Congress grills former White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients about who was running the government in the Biden years, they should have him explain his connections to the Kavanaugh hit, too.
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The 1783 Project
Without the Treaty of Paris in 1783, declaring our independence would have been a hollow exercise. True freedom must be won.
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Living in the Knowledge of Dying
Danny Boyle’s film ‘28 Years Later’ delivers exactly the subversive message a dying Western civilization needs to hear.
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Why America Needs Baseball
From cornfields to street corners, generations of American young men have pursued their dreams on the diamond.
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Litigation Remains a Vital Tool in Taking Back Our Universities
Colleges and universities forced to pay for punishing those who dare to question left-wing narratives will learn to respect the First Amendment again.
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Study Blames Americans for Stressing Out Immigrants
Researchers discover that immigration to the U.S. is harmful to immigrants, but only because we’re so terrible that we ask them to assimilate.
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Other Presidents Complained, But Trump Made NATO Step Up
Trump has accomplished what other presidents only dreamed about regarding NATO commitments.
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Mamdani Speaks to the AI Generation’s Casualties
Conservatives should not be surprised to see the rise of left-wing populists like Zohran Mamdani when the economic insecurity of voters goes unaddressed.
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America Needs ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
America has suffered the consequences of false compassion for illegal immigrants for too long.
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Tallying Up Biden’s Immigration Damage
After four years of Biden, the foreign-born population now makes up a higher percentage of the overall U.S. population than at any time on record.
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The Moral Error in Calling Mamdani a Commie
The temptation to label today’s leftists “socialists” or “communists” is a Cold War hangover that misunderstands today’s fight with the left: it’s about morals and culture, not economics.
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Pew’s Untrustworthy Spin of Its Social Trust Survey
Pew’s latest survey of social trust correctly measures the indicators of growing social distrust but, predictably, filters the interpretation of the data through a bogus and dated lens.
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Democrats Need Populism, But Not Zohran’s Sort
Democrats trying to point their party back to Middle America are shunned in favor of the extreme and unpatriotic populism of the far left.
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The Moviegoer: Realism, Femme Fatales, and Film Noir
Film noir presented a reality that embraced both darkness and glamour, thus getting viewers closer to confronting the truth.
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Who Are We to Say Iran Can’t Be a Nuclear Power?
Even if Iran were to possess nuclear weapons, any threat of their offensive use would trigger an American strike that would end Iran as a geopolitical entity.
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The War Against Woke Is a Legitimate Forever War
The Tech Right may not be interested in fighting the war against woke anymore, but the woke are very much interested in fighting them.
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Five Reasons the Media’s Story Downplaying the Iran Bombing Is a Hoax
The reporting on the effect of Trump’s strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities follows a familiar playbook, and it is too soon for these assessments to hold any water.
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Who Counts? Trump Poised To Try To Remove Non-citizens From Census
Eliminating the influence of non-citizens in our elections means not counting them in the census.
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A Clear Path for a GOP Mayor in NYC?
A path to victory is there for the Republican Party, if they have the guts to take it.
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Democratic Party Gets Its Left-Wing Battering Ram
Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York represents nothing new in Democratic Party politics. He is merely a new state-of-the-art version of what they’ve always been begging for.
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Unwelcome Allies
Although it made sense to support Trump’s decision to bomb Iran, the narrative surrounding it from neoconservatives, and especially their attacks of the bombing’s critics, are tired and preposterous.
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The Man Crisis and ‘Iron John’ at 35
Now more than ever, it would be wise to examine the work of the poet who knew what was eating at men’s souls in the modern world.
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Secure Borders Win Wars Like This One
Winning the wars of the future will require defending ourselves against the dark side of globalization.
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Brian Wilson Touched the Musical Heavens
Wilson’s accomplishments are for the ages now. But Americans can take pride in the pure beauty of his most inspired works.
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How Trump’s Iran Attack Looks Through MAGA Eyes
The nuclear-site bombings recall unhappy memories of past interventions and risk a wider war that would alienate the president’s supporters.
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Engaging With the Culture Must Be the Future of Conservative Media
Serious engagement with the culture is something conservative media can, and should, do—if only there were more support for it.
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Put the Nails in the USAID Coffin
If Congress doesn’t codify Trump’s cuts and changes, the agency and the progressives who have been running it will just bide their time to reemerge in another Democratic administration.
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Parade Politics
As President Trump ushered in a new age of American confidence, petulant leftists did what they do best in reminding us that they are a disloyal opposition.
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What the Pope Means To Inspire in Talking About Sports
Pope Leo XIV delivered a 21st-century message about the goodness of athletics against “the temptation to escape into virtual worlds.”
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The Ritualized Confrontation Between MAGA and the Neocons
If the necons are for it, MAGA is against it; but sometimes even our enemies can be correct, as I think the neocons are about Iran and the danger it poses.
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Can the U.S. and Israel Fully Destroy the Iranian Nuclear Program?
If we want to avoid a quagmire, bringing a battered Iran to the bargaining table is a more reasonable goal than the permanent eradication of Iran’s nuclear program.
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Governors’ Sanctuary Excuses Don’t Add Up
Testifying before a House committee, sanctuary city governors exposed their hypocrisy and false compassion.
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A Minnesota Assassin With a Big Ego, an Inflated Resume, and Unclear Motives
The alleged assassin of a Democratic legislator and her husband left behind a paper trail that shows a massive ego and an unclear political motivation.