William Murchison
Who weeps, who languishes, who darts anxious glances at the clock just about the time Congress goes on vacation? The media, of course. With Congress out of town, what’s to report on, what’s to wring the hands over? As we…
In these very — I mean very — weird times of ours, few phenomena appear weirder than what I would describe as the mania for pulling down or otherwise removing memorials to dead Confederates. New Orleans has done it. My…
What do we take away, then, from the earthquake on the Senate floor last week, with wisps of smoke still rising from the ruins of Republican efforts to do something — anything! — likely to rationalize the health care mess?…
Once it became clear most Christian leaders were bored with orthodox Christianity, and had thrown in with the Social Justice game, progressives removed their talons from the flesh of a faith unwilling to tout its own premises. It got tedious…
John McCain’s blood clot, which caused Republican Senate leadership to suspend formal consideration of Obamacare replacement, isn’t by far the Grand Old Party’s gravest malady. Nothing in the diagnostic manual of political afflictions compares with the near-complete disappearance of the…
The political left really, really, really doesn’t approve of Western civilization! And if you doubt it, reference the maledictions poured out by the left on Donald Trump’s Warsaw speech last week. Wherein Trump had the effrontery to say, “The fundamental…
The word “unprecedented” keeps coming up when discussion turns to our president. He likes it that way: scandalizing the “fake press,” horrifying the high-minded among us — such as remain; giving vast swaths of political opinion, far from all of…
Nobody ever called the late Rodney King a model citizen of Los Angeles. But he gave the world what was likely the most plaintive, plangent query of our time. He wanted to know, in the aftermath of the L.A. burning,…
The world needs a common way of viewing the world. Which it won’t likely have anytime soon: on account of the world’s lack of a real and tested approach to the living of life: stemming from everyone’s enjoying — on…
By the New York Times’ account, Democrats, viewed en masse, want it all — ideological commitment without impurities of one insulting sort or another. Plus electoral victory, don’t you know? To get it, they have only to convince voters. Good…
