Increased belief in conspiracy theories often coincides with societal crises; there are cycles, periods in which conspiracism waxes and wanes against the backdrop of uncertainty and tumult.
Justice, Not Revenge
After four years of lawfare against Trump and his advisors, Democrats are squealing now that the shoe is on the other foot. It's time to teach them a lesson.
The Time to Stop Mamdani Was 30 Years Ago
In the wake of 9/11 America should have tightened its borders instead of cracking down on its own citizens and launching pointless wars.
‘Peanuts’ at 75
Peanuts creator, Charles M. Schulz, may have been one of the 20th century’s greatest evangelists.
Yes, President Trump Can Blow Up Drug Boats
The president has both the constitutional and the statutory authority to carry out operations aimed at designated terrorist groups engaged in drug trafficking.
Shutdown Reveals Illegal SNAP Scam
SNAP funds were designed to assist struggling American families, not to serve as a global buffet for illegal aliens.
Tribalism: A Cross We Have to Bear
Our modern impulse to root out rather than moderate the tribal instinct is leading to destruction and madness.
Celebrating Halloween
The extremes driving the ongoing debate about how and whether to celebrate Halloween are not rooted in the true purpose of the holiday.
How the Cayman Islands Are Propping Up U.S. Debt
The entire federal government appears to be dependent on a group of shadowy hedge funds in the Cayman Islands buying treasuries and propping up U.S. debt.
Culture Is a Formidable Force
Like Mao before them, today’s progressive left understands that overturning a political system requires a revolution in culture, first.
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.
Modi’s India Is Not the Ally America Needs
The Indian prime minister’s actions betray the Beltway’s wishful thinking.
Return of a Race Hustler
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ thoughts on Charlie Kirk say much more about him than they do about the work of the late conservative activist.
On Columbus: The Professors vs. the People
Elitist historians like Heather Cox Richardson and Howard Zinn pretend to speak for “the people” but their understanding of the people is about as dismal as their understanding of history.
God the Son: Prince of Peace Because Also Man of War
Western and American Christians too often echo a first-century heresy when they forget that Jesus Christ is a loving God precisely because he is severely just.
Washington, D.C. Now Boasts Abundant Patriotism—Just Not at No Kings
The contrast between the crowds and the programming at last weekend’s No Kings rally in D.C. and events at the Kennedy Center could not have been starker or more telling.
Pastors Now Have a Path to Support Earle-Sears in Virginia
Now that the Johnson Amendment is defanged, pastors can speak up to their congregations about elections where Christian morality is on the line.
They Wokeified ‘Damn Yankees’
The unnecessary insertion of racial politics into this classic musical cuts deep because the original was based on my grandfather’s life.
Welcome to the Poastocracy
Increasingly, public opinion and political action are no longer shaped by the old institutions but are influenced by citizens talking directly to each other through new forms of media.
How Trump Changed Conservatism
Trump understood something the conservative movement didn’t: Ideas are worthless if you no longer live in a world where they can be realized.
NYC Should Take the Plunge Sooner Rather Than Later
The sooner New York City is made to suffer the consequences of its electoral imprudence the better.
Brazen Theft of the French Crown Jewels Is Nothing Next to Macron’s Heist
The French president is bleeding support as he’s crushed French citizens under public debt, galloping inflation, and the threat of wealth confiscation.
Americans Are Right to Say ‘No’ to Subsidizing Foreigners
The fight over subsidies to Medicaid for foreigners raises important questions about who belongs to America’s political community.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Who’s the Next Sinner We Blackball?
The attempt to purge Vermont State Senator Samuel Douglass over his involvement in the leaked Young Republican group chats looks an orchestrated purge by the old guard GOP against the younger generation.
Desperate for Relevance, Legacy Media Is Turning on Academia
The legacy media is finally realizing that its unquestioning defense of academia’s dogmatic progressivism is a losing proposition.
The Unlearned Lesson of Samuel Paty
The anniversary of the murder of a French schoolteacher by Islamic extremist immigrants reminds us that not every group can be assimilated into Western societies.
Bull Connor’s Spirit Lives On in Chicago
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s defiance of federal immigration enforcement echoes previous attempts to deny the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause.
Well-intentioned Health Care Subsidies Are Destroying the Country
The government’s continued borrowing to subsidize health insurance increases inflation and hurts everyone.
True Legacies and Fake Awards
Trump was elected to secure America’s borders and restore American greatness—not to win fake awards or advance diplomatic breakthroughs.
The Latest Rift in the Democrats’ Coalition: Big Tech vs. Environmentalists
As the use of power-hungry artificial intelligence grows, the Democratic Party will have to reckon with the growing rift between Big Tech and environmentalists.
Visual Muzak and Digital Slop
The entertainment industry has changed to cater to our increasingly fragmented attention spans.
The Anti-Communist Film Festival
America’s long history of anti-communist filmmaking is worth remembering and celebrating.
The Charade of Federal Budgetary Showdowns
The drama playing out in Washington stems from the unwillingness to confront the hard choices posed by our ever-growing mountain of debt.
Columbus Day Celebrates Our Civilization
The rejection of Columbus Day by the modern left is a really a rejection of Western civilization.
Charlie Kirk and the Rhetoric of the Saloon
The American right must come to grips with the nasty fact that it is not in a polite debate, but rather in a rhetorical bar fight.
The Real Ozzy
Ozzy Osbourne was not the literal “Prince of Darkness” his elitist critics want us to believe, but the populist voice of a generation snubbed by the smug corruption and greed of their elders.
Eric Adams’s Departure Will Not Stop Mamdani
New York City is going to have a jihadist Marxist mayor in November as the departure of the current mayor from the race appears to have done little to quell Mamdani’s momentum.
The Decline in Reading Is a Symptom of Disappearing Reality
In our digital age where silence is unbearable and patience feels like weakness, our attention spans and collective capacity to engage with reality is slipping away.
The Politics of the Shutdown, Obamacare, Crime and Deportations
The Republican approach to solving these problems is often labeled cruelty but it is rooted in an acknowledgment of reality and of doing what works.
Dr. Roberts’s Neighborhood
The preposterous tale of Ian Andre Roberts is a telling adventure in the illegal-educational-governmental complex, which threatens the rule of law and the meaning of American citizenship.
The Laughable Hypocrisy of Joyce Vance
A left-wing attorney’s new book on “our democracy” relies on vacuous clichés and shopworn slogans rather than a cogent argument.
Hush, Queen
The political left hates standards because standards are necessarily exclusionary and require judgments. No wonder their domination of the U.S. military has been a disaster.
Charlie Kirk’s Apostasy: Not Believing in Black Girl Magic
Nikole Hannah-Jones, of 1619 Project infamy, attempts to discredit Charlie Kirk but ends up displaying her own lack of brain power.
Yesterday’s Totalitarian
Stephen King’s The Long Walk is a fantastical exploration of an old moral universe where totalitarianism presents itself without complications or nuance and thus leaves us unprepared to confront evil as it actually exists.
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.
What Will It Take to Squash the Pending Insurrection?
There is no reason to believe that yet another Republican victory at the ballot box will be enough to put a stop to the insurrectionist behavior of the global left.
Cancel the Left Before It Cancels You
Magnanimity in the face of a murderous ideology is foolish. We have to reset the ground rules for civil society before we can talk seriously to our opponents about respecting their “free speech.”