You by now surely know about this Ilhan Omar tweet… I think my family and I should have a prayer session next time I am on a plane. How do you think it will end? pic.twitter.com/5696Erwsl5 — Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN)…
My paternal grandfather was a glassblower who, in the years before World War I, left his hometown of Brody forever. Brody was in Galicia, the northernmost province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Populated mostly by ethnic Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews, it also…
There’s an email going around that suggests a refocusing away from the famous “three-legged stool” of anticommunism, social conservatism, and economic libertarianism, which served as the basis of modern conservatism from its founding in 1955 through to the rolling disaster…
Imagine you have just emerged from a 20-year coma and decide to catch up on current affairs by perusing the news stories offered by the major media. You could easily conclude that the nation’s most urgent problem is saving something…
There are many lessons to be drawn from last Saturday’s hostage crisis at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. First, reports that Malik Faisal Akram’s anti-Semitic hostage-taking had disrupted Beth Israel’s live-streamed Shabbat services proved more prescient than those reporters…
Hate them, like most intellectuals, or love them, like the majority of Dutch television viewers, everyone in the Netherlands knows or has heard of the Meiland family. They star in their own reality television show, which began in 2019. That…
Among the species that populate the American political marshland, we are paying too much attention to the youngest. Pollsters were first sighted at the end of the previous century, but this non-native kind has since proliferated. Earlier this year, when…
One of the most entertaining items to pass across the internet in some time popped out from CNN’s website over the weekend. “Exasperation and dysfunction: Inside Kamala Harris’ frustrating start as vice president” read the headline. It was written by…
Pope Francis spoke at a conference on immigration on Thursday sponsored by the Migrantes Foundation, and used the opportunity to contend that efforts must be made to help integrate migrants, who he views as a blessing. “If we do not…
