Between Mark Bowden’s outstanding book Black Hawk Down and director Ridley Scott’s spectacular film of the same name, most Americans have at least a passing familiarity with the “Battle of Mogadishu,” Oct. 3–4, 1993, a battle in which 18 American troops…
The year was 1998. Bill Clinton, who had been dogged by accusations of sexual misconduct ever since his first run for the presidency in 1992, was now mired in the most appalling sex scandal in White House history. After the…
Republicans are going to win handily next year. Among Fox News viewers. But what about the rest of America? Can Democrats replace Biden to keep the presidency, retain the Senate, and take back the House? Ron DeSantis is showing the…
In 1946, George Kennan, the U.S. Charge D’Affaires in Moscow, sent an 8,000 word telegram to the State Department warning of Joseph Stalin’s aggressive foreign policy. The following year, writing under the pseudonym “Mister X,” he reiterated his warning in…
Periodically in the Trump era, as with President Ronald Reagan, some Establishment Republican elite will pop up to lecture Donald Trump or, before that, Reagan supporters. Preferably in the New York Times or some other far-left publication. Their point is…
Dear Readers: For your edification, we are reprinting a prescient dispatch from our editor in chief, the venerable R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., from September 7, 2021. In a column titled “Joe Biden, From Comedy to Tragedy,” Tyrrell had concluded that…
Really, I am a very happy, positive person. I thank G-d every day for the sun, for the moon, for air, for gravity, for fruits and vegetables and meat, for all His creation, and for the life He has extended…
The indictment of former President Donald Trump is a disgusting disgrace. A massive abuse of power. But OK. Message received. A politician accused of corruption — even a former president — must be indicted, arrested, and arraigned, with a trial…
America has been drifting toward a level of corruption incompatible with a free society and a free-market economy. Political and economic freedom depend on the presence of a level of honesty that makes it possible for people to interact with…
“I am the eggman! I am the eggman!” So crooned the weird John Lennon in The Beatles’ iconic 1967 piece “I Am the Walrus.” The song spouted lots of gibberish, including about (and I quote) “yellow matter custard dripping from…