Today’s slackers come in roughly three varieties. The most obvious suspects are those millennials and Gen Zers who never returned to work after the COVID shutdown. Mom’s basement, a bag of Cheetos, and an iPhone or Xbox are all they…
Tuesday at the American Thinker, Steve McCann — one of the regulars at that site — put forth the proposition that Donald Trump should hang up his cleats rather than run in the 2024 presidential race. McCann, mind you, is…
There’s an email going around that suggests a refocusing away from the famous “three-legged stool” of anticommunism, social conservatism, and economic libertarianism, which served as the basis of modern conservatism from its founding in 1955 through to the rolling disaster…
I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me? – Beck, “Loser,” 1994 Bite my lip and close my eyes Take me away to paradise I’m so damn bored, I’m going blind And loneliness has to suffice – Green…
This month, I am marking 30 years of leading an organization that provides opportunities for college students to intern and study in Washington, D.C., and internationally. My time at The Fund for American Studies (TFAS) has provided perspective on how students…
A few days ago, a friend at a dinner party posed a question to the crowded table: “Be honest,” he said. “Have any of you ever felt real generational animosity?” It didn’t take much thought to respond in the negative….
The United States Constitution vests authority over the purse — the power to create, collect taxes, and borrow money — to Congress. According to the Congressional Budget Office, revenue for the 2020 fiscal year is anticipated to be at $3.643…
So amid the crashing and burning of the Weinstein empire in such spectacular fashion that it reminds of a Hollywood Hindenburg, we learn two things. (OK, many more than two, but two will suffice for now.) First, here is Harvey…
Nursing home residents trapped in wheelchairs with floodwaters rising to their waists — the photo of Hurricane Harvey everyone’s seen. But even where the weather’s fine, nursing home residents are in peril. An alert issued Monday by the Inspector General for the…
Washington I was wondering when it would happen. For over thirty years I have been anxiously awaiting the backlash. Alas, for years it never arrived. What backlash have I been awaiting, you ask? Why, the backlash to the most self-important,…