When you walk the Fredericksburg battlefield, especially near the stone wall at the base of Mayre’s Heights (which is just beyond the National Park’s visitor’s center), there is an eerie feeling of tragedy mixed with bewilderment and awe. The battle…
Ignatius Press has released a paperback expanded edition of Robert Reilly’s monumental book, America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding. I reviewed the first edition, most favorably, for The American Spectator this past December, opining that “Robert R. Reilly takes on…
My father-in-law, Alexander Guttmann, was an erudite Talmudic scholar. He was trained in academic critical scholarship (what that once meant before CRT and its friends came along), as well as in the more ancient Jewish version of disciplined study. From…
While militant ideologies can appear as a source of stark clarity in an often-muddled world, their excesses only serve to erode the tradition of liberty. Amid historical instability, people often sought the simple security of absolutes. Thomas Hobbes insisted that…
Washington — The Woke Folk are not finished. As I said last week, they are tearing down statues of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Frederick Douglass. It is only a matter of time before they expand their attacks on other…
With all the talk about racism, let me ask a simple question. How do you make someone a racist? Assuming that’s what you want to do. For the woke Left, that’s a no-brainer. Just be born with white skin. The…
If you open a paper this week, you will see ads for Memorial Day sales. Your inbox is probably being inundated with such ads. Along with sales, Memorial Day images include BBQs, parties, and pool openings. It’s the official beginning…
What happens now? Trump was defeated, but more than 74 million people voted for him, and Republicans won’t elect a president in 2024 if they leave the party. And yet that obviously won’t suffice. The party will need both the…
The grim, grey reality of Soviet Russia bred a special brand of humor. People talk about the day Stalin decided he would see what his people thought of him. He disguised himself and went out to a movie theater in…
