If ever there were a snapshot of serious political message being sent, it would be that coming from the estimated 100,000 Americans who gathered this past Saturday in Wildwood, New Jersey, to hear and cheer on former President Donald Trump….
George Friedrich Hegel once remarked, “We learn from history that we do not learn from history.” A paradox no doubt, but the modern liberal illustrates this truth. Don’t let the opening line of this piece fool you. It is not…
I hope you never have to see someone you love frog-marched off to jail. It’s not something I ever expected to experience. But last August, that’s exactly what happened as two U.S. Marshalls flanked my 69-year-old godfather and whisked him…
Every April 15th Major League Baseball commemorates one of the greatest to ever play the sport, Jackie Robinson. This Monday every player in the MLB will wear the number 42 to honor what Jackie struggled through during his life and…
“Political language,” wrote George Orwell, “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” Nowhere is this more evident today than in the phrase “liberal democratic values,” which is…
Monday was a holiday dedicated to the memory of the greatest American civil rights leader of the 20th century: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But while the airwaves were covered with shallow tributes to the man, in 2024 it’s clear…
“Cultures are held together by the stories they tell about themselves, and America is struggling to find a new national story, one that can acknowledge past injustices without becoming defined by them. The old all-or-nothing morality tale of Good America…
This spring, when the Biden administration unveiled its long-delayed national strategy to counter anti-Semitism, there was — for a brief moment — cause for hope. Jewish leaders praised the plan. So, too, did prominent voices in the Black community. The…
Political polarization in politics is a feature of our political system today, but it wasn’t always this way. Conservatives began to dominate the GOP in 1964, and in 1968 the historic Democratic establishment began to be discredited and undermined. These…
