William Murchison
If Ken Starr, in the Wall Street Journal, praises his late friend Ruth Bader Ginsburg as humane, conscientious, and just plain nice, that’s good enough for me. We can talk later about who’s going to take her Supreme Court seat,…
We live in the age of assertion. Nothing requires proof — least of all a claim about racial injustice, such as “ ‘Law and order’ is just another name for an excuse to come down hard on people of color…
The impeccably credentialed National Association of Scholars (NAS), which strives for, among other things, truth in academic discourse, focused in a recent webinar on the peril that truth faces amid our present racial anxieties. The new “truth” being vetted on…
I think I’ll walk wide of heated conversations about Joe Biden’s mental acuity, given my lack of standing as a participant — or, more to the point, my overabundance of standing. When Joe emitted his first cry, back then in…
Wheee! It’s election time. Let the invective start — the execrations, the exaggerations, and the expostulations. That’s what we do in 21st-century politics; we execrate, exaggerate, expostulate. What’s the point of the whole business otherwise? Our politicians are here to…
Thank the good Lord for the pandemic. Well, sort of. Up to a point. The upside of any disaster is the schoolroom it supplies for the acquisition of knowledge and learning. Concerning, for instance, the very modern case of American…
The craziness of the craziest times many of us have ever lived through has a bit to do with the lack of an off-ramp. We don’t know how to get make it stop. We don’t know where we’re going. We…
Never, goes the ancient adage, pick a fight you’re not prepared to finish. The craziness, the certifiable lunacy, that swirls about us testifies to the inability of the Left to think through the implications of what it began, peaceably enough,…
Back in the days when I knew everything worth knowing, I practiced the newspaper trade — which was the reason I knew everything worth knowing. See, we journalists are smart. We ooze intelligence and wisdom. We know what’s what. And…
