When did mass murder become a Rorschach test? In Buffalo, an 18-year-old murdered African Americans with a gun featuring the n-word painted on its barrel and left behind a manifesto describing blacks as “a different subspecies of human.” The motive…
I have spent the morning in one of those children’s hospitals where hundreds of doctors go out of their way to save the lives of little ones, superheroes battling cancer, premature babies, minors who have suffered serious accidents, or children…
The Columbia University Center for Justice titled the obituary of its cofounder “Kathy Boudin: A Great Life and a Great Loss.” Not until paragraph three does the reader, after first learning of “her lifelong work as an activist, organizer, teacher,…
The leaked Supreme Court majority opinion draft that would overturn Roe v. Wade has been too much for abortion lovers to handle. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, for one, melted down over the news that the power to outlaw abortion will likely…
In March of 2021, the Canadian Parliament passed the world’s most liberal euthanasia law. The law scrapped the previous requirement that a person’s death be foreseeable. No longer would assisted suicide hurry death along. Now, it would prescribe death to…
A particularly thoughtful student of mine expressed her concerns about the situation with Russia and Ukraine. She’s alarmed by Putin’s blatant aggression, with no doubt that he’s the bad guy. But she’s uneasy about being on the side of the…
“China’s Hazmat Suit Terror,” editorial cartoon by Shaomin Li for The American Spectator, April 18, 2022.
Nations, like people, have psychologies that make their behavior more predictable than they would otherwise be. Russia has since at least the late 17th century been an imperialist state willing to subjugate its neighbors by force of arms or by…
“It was well known that Russian soldiers raped girls anywhere from five to 80 years of age.” So said Joan Clark, wife of Bill Clark, Ronald Reagan’s closest adviser and the man who, more than any Reagan official, helped defeat…
