To win the next match more decisively, critics would do better to focus on strengthening that hand by solving America’s domestic weaknesses.
Year: 2026
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The Radical Left AAUP Beclowns Itself
The AAUP’s recent activity makes it clear that the group has nothing to do with defending academic freedom and everything to do with advancing a radical left-wing political agenda through our universities.
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Trump Ramps Up War on the Birth Tourism Industry
It is high time for Americans to value American citizenship at least as much as those who try to get it by exploiting legal loopholes.
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Dave Rubin and the Collapse of Conservative Inc.
As the assumptions and algorithms of a generation of conservative media figures dissolves, a failure to address the concerns of a new generation promises collapse.
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Trump’s Iran War and Neoconservative Discontent
President Trump is wise to wrap things up in Iran—even, or especially, if it makes Iran hawks unhappy.
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The Media’s Mission in Anthony Case is to Increase Racial Animosity
Facile comparisons between the Karmelo Anthony and Kyle Rittenhouse cases are designed for no other purpose than to feed racial animosity and make a mockery of justice.
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Democrats Act Like Cheaters
If the Democratic Party isn’t cheating in our elections, then why is their behavior consistent with the behavior of cheaters?
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Replace Awful Late-Night Shows with Arts TV
It’s time to return to a time when America’s cultural gatekeepers promoted things that elevate rather than degrade our souls.
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A Nation and a Saint
Advance celebrations for July 4, recalling a nation and an actress who stood against the enemies of freedom.
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University Professors Against Academic Freedom
The only way to protect civic centers, viewpoint diversity, and academic freedom is to continue the efforts the Trump administration has begun to hold higher ed to account.
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Oh, The Humanities: Yet Another Worthless Report on Higher Education
A new report meant to critique the state of the humanities at American universities falls flat, as the report’s authors lack the courage of their convictions.
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Modern Socialism is Anti-Social
Building communities will necessarily be underwhelming if one cannot agree on pronouns.
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Hollywood Elites Get Their Comeuppance from YouTubeWood
A pair of independent Gen Z directors is giving out-of-touch Hollywood elites a run for their money.
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Elite Overproduction and Higher Education
Recent outbursts of derision at American commencement ceremonies at the mention of AI are a reaction to the failure of our society to prepare young people for new realities.
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Chinafornia Dreamin’
How Jerry Brown transformed California into China’s vassal state, and Democrat plans to descend the climate curtain across the country.
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Ellroy Now, More Than Ever
Although the new James Ellroy novel, Red Sheet, is set in the past, it is perhaps timelier than ever, given the nature of the cold war with China.
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Red Herrings of the Official Neocon History of the U.S.
The idea that everyone to the right of Commentary’s current positions on social and moral issues is somehow an “America-hater” is an absurd and novel view—even for Commentary.
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Vance is Right to Call Out the West’s Self-Hatred
After Henry Nowak’s murder, can Britain break free of its crippling white guilt?
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Four Reasons the Public Doesn’t Trust Elections in California
California’s elections are untrustworthy due to real vulnerabilities in its byzantine systems.
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Spoiler: Movie Critic Devoured by Trump Derangement Syndrome
A film critic’s descent into the madness of insisting audiences cannot tell fantasy from reality ends up being a confession of his own weakness.
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Pope Leo Courts the Global Left
Pope Leo is badly misjudging this moment, in American politics and the world’s.
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Former Colleagues Slam U of Florida’s DEI-Touting Choice for President
Stuart Bell, despite his unanimous endorsement by the University of Florida’s search committee and Governor Ron DeSantis, has a terrible record of promoting DEI and other woke programs.
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Former White House Official Examines ‘What Really Matters’
A new book by Timothy S. Goeglein finds the source of our greatest societal woes in the degradation of faith and family.
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Louisiana GOP Senate Race: Fleming’s Conservatism vs. Letlow’s DEI Shilling
Julia Letlow’s support for DEI ought to disqualify her in the eyes of Louisiana Republicans who have a better option for the Senate.
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The Company the ADL Keeps
The Anti-Defamation League is taking the National Education Association to task for the teachers’ union’s purported anti-Semitism. But these two groups have more in common than not.
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AstroTurf Outrage at Delaney Hall
Americans deserve an immigration policy responsive to the majority, not the megaphone of donor-driven minorities.
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The Spies Who Came in for the Gold
Recent revelations about a former CIA agent’s absconding with gold, money, and jewelry leave us wondering about the nature of the agency’s operations and the quality of its vetting process.
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Reid Hoffman and the Left’s Ongoing Operation to Control Public Opinion
The left-wing billionaire Reid Hoffman, who funded E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuits against the president, has his fingers and money in many operations designed to manipulate public opinion.
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Henry Nowak and the Price of Institutional Cowardice
The brutal killing of a young university student in the UK demonstrates the radical absurdity of hate crimes legislation and the suicidal empathy that drives it.
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Democrats Did Not Betray Jewish Voters; They Listened to Them
Jewish voters who pushed the Democratic Party further left and now feel betrayed by the party’s increasingly anti-Semitic rhetoric should own up to the role they played in this turn of events.
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Tina Peters’ Escape from Devil’s Island
To understand the case of Colorado election official, Tina Peters, we would do well to recall the infamous 19th-century Dreyfus Affair case.
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A Mass-Graves Myth Is Media Malpractice
When the narrative comes first, journalists will insist that the facts must follow. But what if they don’t?
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The Civil Rights Regime Marches On
The Supreme Court’s ruling against racial redistricting is a dent in the larger civil rights regime, which survives to further harass and pester middle America.
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How to Fill the Supreme Court with Justices Like Clarence Thomas
Courage should count when evaluating judicial nominees, especially during our present constitutional moment.
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What Makes Clarence Thomas Great
Clarence Thomas has left a profound impression on the judiciary by remaining anchored in his originalist jurisprudence.
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Remembering Bishop Fulton Sheen
Bishop Fulton Sheen understood that Catholicism and Americanism go together, that to be a good Catholic, one must be a patriot.
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What We Are Reading: June 2026
Short reviews of 'Remembering Who We Are' by M. E. Bradford, and 'History Matters' by David McCullough.
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Amy Coney Barrett and the Court of Disappointed Hopes
Justice Barrett's 'Listening to the Law' reads as though it were written by a well-intentioned jurist who fails to understand the monstrosity that the high court has become.
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Middle America’s Jurist
In ‘Alito,’ Mollie Hemingway describes the formation and explains the thought of Middle America’s voice on the high court: Justice Samuel Alito.
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Diversity Is Inequality
In 'Inevitable Differences,' John Staddon celebrates the kind of diversity that leftists cannot tolerate.
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Books in Brief: June 2026
Short reviews of 'How the United States Would Fight China' by Franz-Stefan Gady, and 'Drop Dead' by Richard E. Farley.
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From Russia With Boredom: The Wizard of the Kremlin Fizzles Out
Olivier Assayas's 'The Wizard of the Kremlin' is less 'Red Dawn' and more red yawn.
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Paleoconservatism Rising
Paleoconservatism offers young right-wingers an intellectual framework that is both traditional and radical, conservative and subversive.
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Shooting at Presidents
There’s nothing new about eccentrics trying to assassinate the president. Those who failed are almost completely forgotten.
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Hopeful Eagle, Crouching Dragon
The U.S. must view China’s actions through a realist lens if the eagle hopes to tame the dragon and avert a costly war.
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Mainstreaming Madness
Calls for “bipartisanship” from Conservatism Inc. manage only to elevate positions from the left that a healthier age would have recognized as madness.
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Our Elite Illiterati
If only the Pulitzer Board would read the books they honor, such as Brian Goldstone's 'There Is No Place for Us,' they would know the common—most obvious—causes of homelessness.
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Seeking Credentials from Pilate’s University
A century-long project of transforming institutions of American higher education into credentialing factories for the administrative state is about to be upended by artificial intelligence.
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Conservatives: Know Your Burnham
James Burnham's theory of managerialism is a foundation that conservatives should build upon while also repairing any cracks in that foundation.
