Our readers know that Mike Johnson, the House speaker, is a longtime friend of mine. And as such, you won’t get any criticism of Johnson from me — other than to recognize that it’s a waste of time to have…
Maybe I’m not the right person to provide a review of Leave the World Behind, the Sam Esmail apocalyptic film starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, and Kevin Bacon that is topping the charts at Netflix this week. I’m…
Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It’s All Obama By Scott McKay (Calamo Press, 312 pages, $30) Upon Barack Obama’s exit from the presidential office on Jan. 20, 2017, a conservative could not be faulted for thinking to himself that America had…
Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America’s Cities By Jack Cashill (Post Hill Press, 288 pages, $21.85) Against any reasonable expectation, America’s once-proud post–World War II suburbanization and middle-class expansion has become a critical flashpoint in our…
The Democratic establishment is laying the groundwork to dump Joe Biden. When the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Axios, and the Atlantic desert a liberal president, you know the knives are out. Which raises two questions: when will they…
One supposes it’s a good, and quite fitting, thing that it was higher education that served as the medium for the Supreme Court’s ending of affirmative action in America. You’ve probably read all you needed to on that subject. If…
There’s a riveting scene in the classic World War II adventure film, The Guns of Navarone (1961), where the Allied commando leader played by Gregory Peck is devastated to learn the pretty Greek freedom fighter (Gia Scala) he has fallen…
Michelle Obama appears to be the next Democrat figurehead. In a May 14 Wall Street Journal op-ed, Douglas Schoen and Andrew Stein give voice to a fear that has been haunting those deranged by the very thought of Donald Trump:…
Barack Obama has come to Spain to dirty the air, and he has been remarkably successful at it. On Nov. 8, 2021, in Glasgow, he said that we had not done enough to combat the climate crisis. “All of us…
Bravo. In a speech this past week, former President Donald Trump vowed that if reelected he will make a point of ending the federal government’s censorship of Americans’ free speech. Said the former president: Within hours of my inauguration, I…