People recorded Nancy Pelosi and Samuel Alito. The circumstances behind the recordings of the two most prominent Italian-Americans in U.S. public life diverge from that point. “We have responsibility, Terri,” then-Speaker Pelosi told her chief of staff on Jan. 6,…
Last week, President Joe Biden held a press conference following the conviction of his political adversary by a New York jury. Biden took the opportunity to gloat and labeled anyone who criticized the verdict as “reckless” and “irresponsible.” In today’s…
My friend Daniel Greenfield, the outstanding contributor over at FrontPage Magazine, is no Pollyanna. If you’re a religious reader of Greenfield’s work, as I am, you’ll know he’s one of the most brutally honest and savage critics of the Left…
If you believe that the weaponization of the justice system is a new phenomenon in American politics, you might need to reconsider. The American Left has been challenging the Founding Fathers’ vision of the American polity for centuries. On today’s…
The Search for Reagan By Craig Shirley (Post Hill Press, 336 pages, $29) It was 20 years ago today, June 5, 2004, that Ronald Reagan passed away. I remember where I was when I heard the news. Many of you…
Writing in this space five months ago, I argued that an anti-woke counterrevolution was starting on American campuses. While that is certainly even more true today, I am seeing increased signs of a more widespread revolt against relentless attacks on…
A hallmark of irrational ideologies is the fear of a bogeyman: some inexplicable evil hiding just out of view. For leftism, the bogeyman is and always has been the Catholic Church: an institution swarming with the evils of oppression, ritual,…
Ten days after Columbia University students decided to make national headlines by camping out on the colleges’ quad, they’ve managed to elicit hours’ worth of X debates about free speech rights and an incredibly lukewarm response from the Biden administration….
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder By Salman Rushdie (Random House, 224 pages, $28) Two summers ago, Salman Rushdie was stabbed by an Islamist radical while giving a talk at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York. The attack left…
