I am writing this still a little inebriated because I have been celebrating for three days straight, so please don’t take it into account if it seems as though I’m dropping letters on the page like someone rolling dice across…
Most have grabbed on to the pithy, yet humorous, meme of Florida. Gov. Ron DeSantis being dubbed “Ron DeSaster” after his Twitter Spaces announcement crashed for the first half hour. Amidst the confusion and frustration, DeSantis presented a very scripted…
Recent studies show that the future of American religion faces two massive obstacles: most young people don’t believe in God, and only about one-fifth of Americans attends a religious service on a weekly basis. Time and again, statistics like these…
WASHINGTON — Tucker Carlson’s recent travails with the media remind me of the great M. Stanton Evans’ Solomonic judgment regarding Richard Nixon. Said Stan: “I never liked Richard Nixon … until Watergate.” Then he saw the 37th president in a…
The Republican Party finds itself amid a civil war with the 2024 general election just a year away. The fight is not between candidates but between competing philosophical visions for the GOP: Reaganism vs. Trumpism. The former is more successful…
Jordan Peterson is one of the most overexposed public intellectuals of our time; his thought is paradoxically both articulate and yet also incredibly vague, if not pedantic. And, as with many public intellectuals, he has made the mistake of assuming…
In a column for The American Spectator last week, Mary Grabar asked, “Why does Black History Month ignore the author of ‘the most talked about column in Negro America?’” That label for the late, great George Schuyler was given by…
The Tafts By George W. Liebmann (Twelve Tables Press, 432 pages, $29) Which is America’s longest-lived influential political dynasty? Author George W. Liebmann says it is the five generations of Taft Ohio Republicans, compared to only “four generations of Adamses,…
Hyrum Lewis, a history professor at Brigham Young University-Idaho, makes a thought-provoking argument in the Wall Street Journal. He contends that “conservatism” has become a “bad label” impeding “good” Republican policy. Lewis argues that American politics today is a contest…
