They didn’t like the way Donald Trump talked. They objected to his “character.” Trump’s tweets annoyed them. He lacked intellectual sophistication. Trump didn’t play by their Washington rules. He wasn’t “presidential” enough. Trump had the temerity to criticize their promotion…
For the first time in a very long time, the Republican Party has a path forward to victory. Yet some in the party insist we continue to lose. X was set ablaze this week with posts from popular conservative pundits…
After Biden’s disastrous debate, do anti-Trumpers still see him as a viable vehicle? This is a valid question because it hinges on who these voters see running the country should Biden win. It is also an important question because anti-Trumpers…
Apparently advocating U.S. extended involvement in lengthy wars that turned out to be disastrous costly quagmires is not a humbling experience for what is left of the American neoconservative movement. Today’s neoconservatives are a far cry from the Irving Kristols…
Former U.S. Sens. John Danforth of Missouri, William Cohen of Maine, and Alan Simpson of Wyoming — Republicans one and all — have taken to the op-ed pages of the Washington Post to headline: Between Trump and Biden, what should real…
If you are a novelist, you may abandon inconvenient reality for richly imagined fiction. Consider Evelyn Waugh, who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1930. Rather than embrace the low-born majority of his new fellow congregants, he wove the richly tragic…
In a departure from his usual amusing — if not particularly insightful — posts, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk recently retweeted the surprising results of a poll conducted at his Turning Point Action Conference. Of the young conservatives surveyed,…
The showdown looms on Aug. 23, the date of the 2022 New York congressional primary election. In New York’s 2nd District out there on Long Island, incumbent Republican RINO Rep. Andrew Garbarino is facing a challenge from the Trump-supporting retired…
For the record, contra Neal B. Freeman’s assertion, I did not make, and to the best of my recollection have never made, “belittling remarks” about William F. Buckley, Jr. As it happens, two of my teachers — Harry V. Jaffa and…
