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…

Recently, Wyoming “Republican” Rep. Liz Cheney published a piece in the Wall Street Journal with this amusing headline: The Jan. 6 Committee Won’t Be Intimidated We are focused on facts, not rhetoric, and will present them no matter what our…

On January 13, 2021, one week before his term of office expired, President Donald Trump was impeached for a second time. All Democratic and ten Republican members of the House of Representatives adopted a single article of impeachment charging him…

This was the CNN headline as written by Jake Tapper: Former Trump administration officials hold call to strategize against former boss’ efforts in 2022 and 2024 This was the headline from London’s Daily Mail: More than 30 former Trump officials hold…

George Will’s fears of another Trump presidency were again on display in a recent Washington Post column in which he advised aides to Joe Biden to avoid putting the president “in situations that require skills that he — always garrulous,…