Recreational and medical marijuana are legal in 38 states. Several more states will likely vote on legalization in 2024. Political pressure to approve legalization is high, fueled by public polling and lobbying from cannabis growers, distributors, and users. Unfortunately, much…

“Cultures are held together by the stories they tell about themselves, and America is struggling to find a new national story, one that can acknowledge past injustices without becoming defined by them.  The old all-or-nothing morality tale of Good America…

Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince, which was first published in 1532 and still remains in print, is known for its unsentimental and amoral advice to leaders and would-be leaders about attaining and using power. Machiavelli wrote the book to gain favor…

For some reason, a lot of conservatives have a knee-jerk negative reaction to lab-created meat. I checked the writings of the likes of Edmund Burke and John Locke and found nothing on this. Likewise with P.J. O’Rourke — though doubtless,…

Well, good for Rudy Giuliani. In an interview with Newsmax’s Greg Kelly (and full disclosure, I am a Newsmax contributor), the former New York mayor said this after he was ordered to pay $148 million to election workers: “How can…

George Kennan and Henry Kissinger had much in common. They served their country as diplomats and policy formulators — Kennan as a foreign service officer and director of the State Department’s policy planning staff; Kissinger as national security adviser and…

The 50th Anniversary of the Saturday Night Massacre passed last month, with C-SPAN’s American History TV hosting a panel featuring prominent figures from that era, all happily reminiscing how the event “set off a chain of political and legal events…

The Founding Father of this fount of worldly wisdom, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., has written a delightful new memoir (How Do We Get Out of Here?: Half a Century of Laughter and Mayhem at The American Spectator―From Bobby Kennedy to…

In a now-infamous recent podcast recording on the Israel–Hamas war in Gaza, former President Barack Obama lectured: “You have to admit that nobody’s hands are clean, that all of us are complicit to some degree.” Ironically for such a narcissist,…

“Don’t bite the hand that feeds you,” the saying goes. But what if that same hand — Joe Biden — feeds the slavering beast slaying your children — and pats you condescendingly on the head? Soon after his inauguration in…