In the dog days of summer, as President Joe Biden’s average approval rating plummeted to historic lows amid an intense flurry of national setbacks, policy blunders and rhetorical “gaffes” (otherwise known as palpable senility), most in the punditry class began…
Election Day! A great day, and often a brutal one. What can we do about it? Libby commented on my last column: “Any suggestions for how to avoid all media on election night? The temptation is too great at home…
Some of my articles are longer. Some mid-sized models. Few are bite-sized. Even when not mixing metaphors. There’s really nothing more to say. One candidate: – Promised to build a wall and built 400 miles of it with every penny…
How are you dealing with pre-election nerves? Pianist Adam Golka is celebrating Beethoven’s 250th birthday with a concert series called 32@32, in which the 32-year-old musician will play all 32 Beethoven sonatas. Saint Thomas Church in New York City is…
Washington Two weeks from today we shall know who is to be our next president. Or perhaps we will not know who is to be our next president two weeks from today. It might take three or four weeks. It…
Donald Trump wins reelection because his supporters enjoy but one means of political expression: the ballot box. Donald Trump loses reelection because his supporters enjoy but one means of political expression: the ballot box. We do not know who claims…
What we can all say with resonant voice and unflinching confidence about the Nov. 6 elections is that… is that… that most things aren’t going to be very different on or after Nov. 6 with respect to life and social…
This one is different. No embedded hyperlinks, and I am preaching only to the choir this morning: Get out and vote. I write for a university-educated conservative readership — the kinds of people that the pollsters say are too educated to…
Let’s talk sense about the election. Nothing is to be gained by refusing to face the hard facts. What are those facts? First of all, neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump has the qualifications, the track record or the personal…
In yet one last sign of the times in this unpredictable election, Michigan appears to be in play as Americans head to the polls. For weeks, RCP has penciled Michigan in for Hillary Clinton. Most electoral map projections in the…