A recently published paper from the Institute for Family Studies and the Wheatley Institution concludes that people who hold conservative political beliefs, especially those connected to religion and personal responsibility, are significantly happier than people on the political left. In…
Since President Joe Biden took office, the media have made it a policy to ignore his failing mental health. That may be changing very gradually because some in the media who fear a Republican victory next year want to see…
Yay for the Fourth of July! It now simultaneously marks a second kind of “Independence Day”: When July has just begun, that means we are finished with the annual infernal June “Pride Month” from Hell. We are free again —…
Although graduation season is coming to a close for the class of 2023, it seems few Gen Z graduates see employment as the next step. According to recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, workforce participation rates have…
“The homeless are just like you and me.” That’s a politically correct assertion that doesn’t quite recognize the reality on the ground, such as the link between self-destructive behavior — most notably, substance abuse — and living on the street…
The kids aren’t alright, and it’s starting to show. Last week, the New York Post published a front-page story that heralded “The New Great Depression,” tracking the twin rise of social media and juvenile depression. Since 1991, the University of…
Joe Biden, like Forrest Gump, is not a smart man. His latest Ron Burgundy moment comes as Exhibit 1,322b. On Monday, he quoted a woman calling high-speed internet “the best thing that has happened to rural America since the Rural…
Is there anyone in the U.S. who doesn’t think America is in serious cultural decline? Trumpists, Never Trumpists, conservatives, progressives, the far Left, and the radical Right all define it differently, but all are unhappy, even our serene centrists. New…
A friend tells me, slightly ashamed, that he has just started taking anxiolytics. I order a beer, point my finger at it, and, grinning, tell him that I have too. He gets angry and tells me that it’s a very…
