David Brooks is the regular alternative voice discussing politics and public affairs for the government-supported Public Broadcasting Service’s News Hour. He is a regular columnist for the New York Times, a former editor for the Weekly Standard (from its inception), and…
Civilization means that officials and authorities, whether uniformed or not, whether armed or not, are made to realize that they are servants and not masters. Thus wrote Winston Churchill in a 1936 article published in Collier’s, a then-popular American magazine….
In last week’s European Parliamentary elections, citizens in country after country rejected left-wing policies. Predictably, left-leaning major media outlets across the globe — the Associated Press, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Vox, Politico, the Guardian — decried…
Nate Fischer touched a nerve yesterday by pointing out the self-evident fact that the regime governing America today has “almost no relationship to the form of government established by the [C]onstitution.” “If you will not accept the reality that this…
Sometimes, the spirit of the nation suddenly changes. What had suited it before, what it had thought before, is over. The people turn a corner. In his tribute of love to his people and the gifts they brought the world,…
Politics is tough on principled people, just as it was on former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, who passed away Wednesday at 82 years old. The rough and tumble of Athenian democracy bred the idea that whatever you can persuade people…
On June 1, 2020, Heriberto Carbajal-Flores, a migrant illegally living in the United States, was found in unlawful possession of a firearm in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The charge falls under Title 18 of the United States…
February 2024 was not a good month for President Joe Biden. It began with special counsel Robert Hur’s mortifying report and ended with assessments like that of Danielle Pletka, who echoed various congressional comments about the president’s disconcerting mental abilities: “[They tell]…
On Monday the Supreme Court saved the Constitution. The Democrats and the ultra-Left attempted to demolish the Constitution by saying that American citizens had no say in choosing the president, that only prosecutors and grand juries had that power. They…
