The lawfare deployed against France’s Marine Le Pen is a shot across the bow of Europe’s populist right and all who oppose Europe’s ruling class.
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Columbia’s Clown Show Continues
The high-stakes drama and academic charade at this supposedly venerated institution of higher education continues apace—threatening funding, public respect, and sanity.
The Signal Story Distracted the Media While Trump Gutted Federal Unions
The left-wing legacy media’s obsession with the Signal leak story distracted them from real events that will weaken the Democrats’ power base.
America’s Reliance on Foreign Doctors Puts Countless Lives at Risk
Inconsistent and unequal standards in medical training abroad raise questions about our priorities in addressing America’s physician shortage.
Lawfare Isn’t Beaten—In France or America
Trump is right to pressure law firms to avoid falling into the trap of lawfare.
Edna O’Brien’s Real Feminine Mystique
A new film about the famous Irish writer captures her feminine energy and brilliance and, perhaps unintentionally, shows how such qualities are missed by modern feminism.
Trump Is Right to Ignore ‘Signalgate’
There is nothing to be gained in capitulating to critics who feign outrage over counterfactuals. Trump is right to fight on.
Waiting for the Golden Age
The AI revolution may not lay the golden egg we’ve been led to believe is coming.
Master of the Locked-Room Mystery
The novelist John Dickson Carr was a master mystery writer and a product of a now-lost age in which reading was an unsurpassed pleasure.
Occam’s Razor in an Era of Declining Public Trust
The simplest explanation in “Signalgate” is that a staffer messed up—badly.
Out-of-Control Judge Tries to Silence Trump on Russiagate
A judge who ordered the president not to discuss a law firm involved in the Russiagate hoax is getting very little pushback from the Justice Department.
Religious Freedom Does Not Trump Immigration Law
Groups seeking to shield illegal immigrants from deportation by suggesting that churches can serve as a refuge are playing a game with the law.
Gavin Newsom Gaslights on His Podcast
On subjects such as the use of the ‘Latinx,’ California’s budget, and his minimum wage hike, Newsom retreats but his record speaks for itself.
Trump Puts the System on Trial
Judges will rule on procedure and technicalities, but the people will evaluate the legitimacy of our institutions and credibility of our leaders.
Columbia and Other Universities Need Their Feet Held to the Fire
Reforms are only going to be as lasting as the threat of real punishment.
Spring Cleaning at Harvard
A year after Claudine Gay’s resignation as president of Harvard, wokeness is still entrenched in university faculties and administrations. It needs to go.
Stop the Litigation-Industrial Complex’s War Against Trump
Democracy is at stake, but the threat is from the courts.
South African Ambassador Gets Expelled After Trying to Take America to School
Ebrahim Rasool found out that the Trump administration does not welcome fanatics who lecture Americans about the supposed moral superiority of third-world nations.
The Deep State Protects Their Bureaucracy Over American Security
David Sullivan’s experience exposing the treachery of a KGB spy inside the CIA, John Arthur Paisley, shows how the deep state is more interested in protecting itself than in national security.
Will Trump Turn Nationalism Against America?
The more America acts like an imperial power, the more nationalist movements in other countries will treat us like one.
Graydon Carter and the ‘Golden Age of Magazines’
The era of original, tough-minded, and seriously cultivated magazine journalism is over, replaced by an age of random digital ephemera.
Defying Judge Boasberg Is a Smart Move
Trump’s defiance in the face of the federal court judge’s special pleading on behalf of Venezuelan gang members and terrorists is a political winner.
The Time Is Ripe for a Serious Adaptation of ‘Starship Troopers’
The 1997 film adaptation was enjoyable but failed to take the source material seriously for political reasons. A new adaptation has the chance to correct that.
Much Ado About Nothing in Kennedy Center ‘Booing’ Incident
The ungrateful audience members who booed JD Vance are not likely to disrupt Trump’s plans to improve D.C.’s premier arts center.
John Roberts Is Responsible for the High Court’s Self-Delegitimization
Roberts has a history of prioritizing—in ham-handed and self-aggrandizing fashion—what he believes to be the judiciary’s integrity.
Trump May Have to Save the Constitution from the Courts
A showdown between the White House and courts over “impoundment” will determine the fate of the republic.
The Grey Lady Admits It Was ‘Misled’ on COVID’s Origins
The Times’s own willingness to be misled, and to mislead the public, calls into question whether the paper can be trusted to “follow the science.”
How Can the Left Ignore Freeman Dyson and Elon Musk?
One-time heroes of science and technology become pariahs to the left when their observations become politically inconvenient.
When Canada Expanded
Canada is critical of talk of U.S. expansion, but its own history involves coercing Newfoundland into union and away from U.S. influence.
Tate Who?
The world that made Andrew Tate a phenomenon has moved on without him.
The Deep State’s Attempt To Make Ukraine a Three-Front War
Is the deep state trying to push the Trump administration to become actively hostile to Ukraine?
Is The GOP Weird?
Only if we’re using weird in the sense of being too timid to take on the weirdos of the left in any kind of meaningful way.
The Democrats’ Civil War
While the Democratic Party base demands strong opposition to Trump. their clever and unprincipled leaders know that it is smarter to be more like him.
Journalism’s ‘Year of Confessions’ Needs a Deeper Confessional
Former Washington Post editor Marty Baron’s acknowledgment that George Stephanopoulos’s journalistic mea culpa was necessary rings hollow.
Musk Is Right: The UN Is a Corrupt, Anti-American Scam
It’s time for the U.S. to cut ties with the UN for good.
New College of Florida’s Disastrous Stanley Fish Indulgence
Stanley Fish’s promotion of Judith Butler shows how well-meaning but muddled liberals end up protecting our captured institutions from democratic discourse and accountability, often in the name of “defending democracy.”
The Vienna Philharmonic’s Excellence Proves Europe Is Doing Something Right
Contrary to the wishes of some American critics, the orchestra still chooses its performers through blind auditions, testing only for musical excellence and scorning DEI considerations.
Mahmoud Khalil and the Red-Green Assault on American Sovereignty
The drama over Khalil’s arrest and detention is not really about Khalil but about sovereignty of the United States over its borders.
Good News, Illegals: There’s an App for Self-Deportation Now
The Trump administration is redesigning the Biden administration’s infamous CBP One phone app that facilitated illegal immigration into an instrument for self-deportation.
Immoral Cultural Arbiters
America’s culture is damaged not so much by the low standards of the entertainment industry as it is by the calculated strategy of anointing these vandals as moral authorities.
Bhattacharya’s Confirmation Hearing Shows Why the NIH Needs Reform
If America is serious about reversing the chronic disease epidemic and restoring public trust in science, confirming Jay Bhattacharya as NIH director is not just the right move—it’s essential.
The Wannabe Revolutionary Is No Great Man of History
Luigi Mangione has become a cultlike figure to certain segments of both the revolutionary left and right. But even by the standards of these deluded people, he is a fraud.
Elon Musk’s Bleak House-Cleaning
Elon Musk and his band of DOGErs have exposed those in government who are not working in the interest of the American people but have their attentions turned elsewhere.
The Spirited Right Must Unite Around Consent
It will not do for the right to make lazy appeals to tradition when the American tradition now includes a long history of support for the administrative state.
Divide and Con
Some thoughts on Justin Trudeau, Pierre Trudeau, and the USA-Canada alliance.
Dealmaker, Peacemaker, President
President Trump understands that American foreign policy is rooted in interests before values.
Can Donald Trump Win a Trade War?
Good economic policy calls for a cool head, and Wall Street fears the president is letting his passions set the nation on a dangerous course.
What Kash Patel Will Find in the Kavanaugh FBI File
Many of the same characters involved in lawfare against President Trump are implicated in the untruthful ambush of me and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Steve Bannon Wants America to Ditch China—That Won’t Happen
The U.S. is not in a position to do what Bannon asks, but we can negotiate better terms and regain control of our trade and manufacturing policy.
The Censorious American Right
The trick of identifying those on the uncooperative right as being “woke right” or leftists in disguise is deployed for no other reason than to keep us out of the conversation.