Today’s great political divide is not over the ballooning federal debt or health care or any of the things that we used to argue about. Rather, it’s about when and how we should reopen the economy as the fear of…
The secularist prejudices of the Left remain on open display during the coronavirus crisis. They continue to produce bizarre policies: closed churches, banned funerals and weddings, even as abortion mills keep grinding and jails spring prisoners. Protecting the First Amendment,…
What the government protected as rights in March it prosecuted as crimes in April. May presents an opportunity to return to a constitutional republic from the doctor-dictatorship fixated on health to the exclusion of all other concerns. But politicians made…
Back in the ’50s and early ’60s, when the Right was exercised about communists and Soviet agents in our midst, were insisting on things like loyalty oaths, and wanted folks to rat on their neighbors if they thought them commies,…
As late as March 11, Mayor Bill de Blasio was still telling New York City residents to carry on life as normal: “If you’re not sick, you should be going about your life.” Two days earlier, Italy had announced a…
COVID-19: The Reality Show has taken cable TV by storm. The plot is nominally about a war against an invisible Chinese invader that has already killed over 1,200 Americans. But on another level, it is a family sitcom, a successor…
In New York City, where Bill de Blasio has nothing else to worry about, the controversy is now into its second day over comments that Rudy Giuliani made the other day in an interview with New York magazine, in which…
Americans, a compassionate people, have elected presidents crippled from polio (Franklin Roosevelt), diagnosed with Addison’s disease (John Kennedy), and suffering from Tourette syndrome (Donald Trump). But some maladies ask too much from voters, including RBF, which explains why Kamala Harris…
It’s hard to imagine candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination can sink lower than they already have. But they have. In the wake of President Trump going after the mess in rat- and crime-infested Baltimore — saying exactly the kind…
