The day of the Biden inaugural, President Trump’s splendid 1776 Commission, a robust response to infantile progressivism’s juvenile 1619 Project, was ditched by the new White House. It was hauled away with the bust of Winston Churchill.  If that wasn’t…

So Joe Biden is now president. With the stock markets hitting new highs and mortgage rates new lows every other day, what could possibly go wrong? Multiple trillions in additional government spending to “stimulate” the economy should eliminate any remaining doubts…

If you look at the U.S. today, you might believe that we are all socialists now. Republicans no less than Democrats spend wildly. There is little that Uncle Sam does not fund or subsidize. Bernie Sanders was a serious candidate…

In the media’s burbling about Joe Biden’s emerging administration, we hear such astonishing descriptions as “not political,” “experienced,” and “lifelong public servants.” These are the gauzy phrases of a press corps that equates liberalism with “competence.” In fact, most of…

Since the start of the Bernie revolution in 2016, a factional divide has intensified in Washington between the old Democratic guard and a growing class of far-left populist candidates inspired, and in most cases directly mentored, by Bernie Sanders himself….

Many conservatives have moved their social-media accounts to the more freewheeling Parler, and often have slammed the supposedly monopolistic Facebook and Twitter as they’ve decamped from those sites. I have chuckled at some of their overheated parting rhetoric — especially…

The Wall Street Journal recently ran two pieces, one atop the other, covering how neighbors and loved ones span the gulf of divergent political beliefs. Needless to say, it’s a topic of particular relevance during this, or any, election season….

Benjamin Franklin is usually credited for observing that nothing in this world is certain but death and taxes. As it happens, he didn’t originate the aphorism, and there is at least one certainty missing from the list — that the…

In 2016, the Vatican was pulling for Hillary Clinton. Just days before the presidential election, Pope Francis renewed his criticism of politicians who speak about erecting “walls.” This led Slate and other publications to run such headlines as “It Sure…

The man was a walking political disaster. He was “a minority of a minority” who “has been taking some extreme positions.” His positions were “so extreme that they would alter our country’s very economic and social structure and our place…