Ryan Wesley Routh tried to play Lee Harvey Oswald and Abraham Zapruder. He succeeded in neither role. The attempted assassination of Donald Trump on Sunday, the second such serious effort to murder the former president in 63 days, at Trump…
One of the more preposterous aspects of the protests roiling American college campuses is the insistence of the students that they be spared any adverse consequences for their actions. They expect no suspensions, no expulsions, and most of all no…
Fans of pseudo-historical nonsense received a dose of satisfaction this month when Politico published an article under the headline, “How Kennedy Narrowly Defeated Nixon — and Why the Alternative History Would Have Been Devastating.” (The sub-headline followed: “The 1960 election…
Monday was a holiday dedicated to the memory of the greatest American civil rights leader of the 20th century: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But while the airwaves were covered with shallow tributes to the man, in 2024 it’s clear…
In 1963, Martin Luther King delivered his “I Had a Dream” speech. At the time, racist barriers substantially impacted the life chances of blacks, the parents and grandparents of today’s black youths. Structural racism in American society was clearly evidenced…
Why do we celebrate a holiday honoring a man who was arrested and jailed twenty-nine times, and was ultimately assassinated? What lessons can we learn from this man, Martin Luther King, Jr. and from American institutions that seem to have…
“Cultures are held together by the stories they tell about themselves, and America is struggling to find a new national story, one that can acknowledge past injustices without becoming defined by them. The old all-or-nothing morality tale of Good America…
“Oh, my God! The president’s been shot!” For those of us of a certain age, the moment we first heard that President John F. Kennedy had been shot has enshrined itself among our most indelible memories. I was 13, and…
Despite its political and ideological faults, the modern Democrat Party has ironclad discipline. No matter how outrageous or unpopular the Left’s issues with voters, the party bosses regularly keep the rank-and-file in line and impose the agenda. But this is…
