Monday marks Cinco de Mayo — not actually much of a holiday in Mexico, but an important date for Mexican food and drink-loving Americans, to be sure. This year, the probability is that Americans’ Cinco de Mayo is costing slightly…
“Tis the times’ plague, when madmen lead the blind.” William Shakespeare, King Lear Last Friday marked the 250th anniversary of the Shot Heard Round the World. This was the first musket shot of the American Revolution, fired across the old North…
editor’s note: The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg recently published an article describing how Trump administration officials somehow included him on a Signal chain of text messages that included plans to attack Houthi terrorists. But Goldberg himself mistakenly emailed the following…
In February, Vice President J.D. Vance surprised many at the Munich Security Conference by raising concerns about the erosion of democratic values among our allies. He explicitly stated, “In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.”…
By now, everyone has seen the video and heard the commentary chewing over the debacle in the Oval Office, in which a sweatshirt-clad Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, fresh out of a meeting with a host of mostly-Democrat Senators whose counsel…
In 2006, the brilliant geopolitical scholar Mark Steyn wrote a depressively prescient book about the imminent fate of the Western world, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. Steyn posited that Europe would collapse from three…
If you want to understand why last Friday’s Oval Office press conference between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky went off the rails, ignore most of what you are seeing in the corporate media. Anyone watching a video of…
On Feb. 20, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), moderator Mercedes Schlapp, during her 30-minute conversation with Vice President JD Vance, asked him: “Your faith — why is it so important to you?” To his credit, Vance gave a…
I’ve seen neighborhood meetings to decide who is the pig that throws cigarette butts into the common yard calmer than the meeting between Zelensky, Trump, and Vance. The video will go down in history. And I have mixed feelings about…
