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.
Author: Daniel McCarthy (Daniel McCarthy)
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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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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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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.
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Pope Leo Needs Trump to Take on A.I.
Instead of going out of his way to offend the Church’s natural allies in the fight for sensible AI regulation, Pope Leo ought to learn to speak their language.
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Democrats Face Midterm Disappointment
The Republican Party is in better shape for the midterms than many suppose.
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Virginia Democrats Reveal a Radical Design
Democrats oppose the principles of republican government that limit their short-term majorities from exercising absolute power.
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The Silenced Generation
An American-style social credit system of pervasive technology combining with woke ideology to enforce submission is rampant on campus.
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Whose Creed? Whose Country?
We should consider the implications and limits of creedal nationalism as we approach the 250th anniversary of our separation from Britain.
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Colleges Are Making Political Violence Worse
Young men like Cole Allen shouldn’t emerge from years of “liberal” education more ready to accept, or commit, political violence.
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Immigration Amnesty by Any Other Name
For the GOP, this bill means death with indignity at the polls.
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Pope vs. President Is a Fight Everyone Loses
When a pope and a president work together for peace, without compromising with evil, they can achieve what’s otherwise impossible.
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Virginia: A New Extreme in Gerrymandering
Democrats’ campaign for the amendment giving them 10 of Virginia’s 11 congressional districts has been a master class in deceit and manipulation.
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When Birthright Citizenship Goes Wrong
Birthright citizenship, as liberals understand it—and as they hope the Supreme Court will uphold it—leads to absurdities, and worse.
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ICE Saves Lives—and Air Travel
Democrats failed to foresee that Trump would repair their sabotage of America’s transportation security by using the very agency they’ve been trying to destroy.
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Why Are Senate Democrats Making Air Travel Worse?
Ending this partial shutdown doesn’t have to wait on passing any new laws: Schumer can end it today.
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Cuba Should Accept Trump’s ‘Friendly Takeover’
Trump is poised to succeed where earlier presidents failed because he’s trying to do neither too much nor too little.
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Immigration Enforcement Saves Lives
Do Democrats like Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill, who claim to be moderates, take the lives of American citizens seriously?
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How a Party Offends Its Voters
Between Gavin Newsom’s insults to black voters and the struggles of both parties to retain Jewish voters, the 2028 election is still very much in play.
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Why Are Anti-ICE Activists Building Borders?
The anti-ICE activists who are checking IDs and setting up roadblocks in Minneapolis are not harmless citizen activists. They are insurrectionists.
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A Japanese Lesson for Troubled Britain
Whereas Japan's Sanae Takachi has an overwhelming mandate for her agenda, the UK's Keir Starmer is hugely unpopular and is afraid to call an election.
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The Trump Coalition Wins But the GOP Brand Doesn’t
With or without Trump on the ballot, the GOP’s survival now depends on the coalition he pioneered.
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Canada Should Warm to Trump’s Arctic Plans
Canada cannot expect Americans to be complacent about waters it claims but cannot secure when Russia and China are eager to step in.
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From Rock to Tech, Talent Flees Taxes
Blue states and cities like California are wrecking the very prosperity that makes their extensive social services and government benefits possible.
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Renee Good Endangered Her Life—and Yours
Activism that abets law-breaking is the moral equivalent of racketeering, and it might meet the legal definition, too.
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Tim Walz Personifies Democrats’ Decline
Until Democratic populism can match Republican populism on immigration and cultural norms, the decline will continue for that party.
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Harvard Says Yes to Discrimination, No to Western Civ
Scholars and students of real academic distinction are now fleeing institutions like Harvard for freer and fairer settings.
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JD Vance Gets America’s Creed and Heritage Right
The Americans who built this country bequeathed us not only a Constitution but a culture, which is more than a litany of abstract propositions.
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Trump’s Inflation Trap
Americans voted for Trump; if they wind up with Biden’s economy anyway, there’s going to be hell to pay at the ballot box.
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Biden’s Immigration Debacle Is the Media’s, Too
The media’s sudden interest in Joe Biden’s immigration failure is too little, too late.
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‘Iryna’s Law’ and the Bad Judges Who Make It Necessary
Where judges egregiously endanger the public with their leniency toward criminals, they should be impeached and removed from office.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Exit Is a Warning to Republicans
No matter how unruly the closely divided House might be, it’s time the president tried governing with his party in Congress.
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Trump Hasn’t Lost Hispanics (Yet)
MAGA is more compelling to Hispanics than the halfhearted compromises Republicans served up before Trump. But there is no room for tone-deafness.
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Trump Can Do Better Than Tariff ‘Dividends’ and 50-Year Mortgages
Americans don’t want token stimulus and a half-century of debt slavery, but an end to the crushing burden of inflation and high energy prices.
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Trump’s Tariffs on Trial
Only the president can act toward the world with a singular vision when it comes to global contests.
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MAGA Makes Allies Great Again
There's no contradiction in nationalists from different nations working in parallel to make their own countries stronger individually and more secure collectively.
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Columbus Day Celebrates Our Civilization
The rejection of Columbus Day by the modern left is a really a rejection of Western civilization.
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Why Sharpies Are Made in America Again
Putting a little faith (and money) behind American factories and workers will sometimes defy the laws of globalization.
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Assata Shakur and Other Parents of Political Violence
The left-wing extremists of the 1960s and ‘70s didn't pay a very high reputational price—nor, in many cases, a legal price—for their violent politics. We need to do better now.
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The Left’s Triple Threat to Free Speech
Liberals have spent the days since Charlie Kirk's murder insisting that the real danger to free speech comes not from left-wing killers' bullets but from Republican officials.
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Britain’s Populist Moment
As Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government totters under the weight of scandal and incompetence, the British right shows renewed vigor.
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Who’s Accountable for Autopen Pardons?
Joe Biden’s autopen commuted the sentences of more than 4,000 federally incarcerated offenders—including many with a history of violence.
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Keep Children Safe from Transgender Politics
Protecting children should include keeping them away from adults who seek to affirm their doubts about identity.
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Trump’s Re-Creation of the Old ‘New Right’
The three-legged stool of conservatism was created to stop a nationalistic Trump-like figure from filling the void left by Reagan’s exit.
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Trump’s Industrial Policy Is Realism, Not Socialism
America has a long history of government getting involved in owning companies and it is the national interest to build a sovereign wealth fund.
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Is Gavin Newsom the Democrats’ Answer to Trump?
California’s Democratic governor is trying too hard to be as tough as Trump and bumping into the consequences of his own policies while doing it.
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Just Say No to More Marijuana
The president should ignore the well-funded cannabis lobby and focus on what more marijuana use means for ordinary Americans.
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Will the GOP Make Liberals Generous Again?
Are wealthy liberals willing to put their money where their mouths are?
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Trump’s Trade Lesson for Economists (and the World)
Trump and America are winning this trade war and demonstrating the shortcomings of the economists in the Ivory Tower.
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Whose Politics Canceled Stephen Colbert?
Donald Trump didn’t get Stephen Colbert canceled; everything Democrats like about him did.