If you are a novelist, you may abandon inconvenient reality for richly imagined fiction. Consider Evelyn Waugh, who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1930. Rather than embrace the low-born majority of his new fellow congregants, he wove the richly tragic…

Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince, which was first published in 1532 and still remains in print, is known for its unsentimental and amoral advice to leaders and would-be leaders about attaining and using power. Machiavelli wrote the book to gain favor…

Why does the Never-Trump crowd, the earnest viewers of the Republican primary debate, believe that the tactics used against Donald Trump won’t be used against their preferred candidate? Why can’t they explain how Nikki Haley wins the primary, never mind…

Last week, retired conservative federal appeals court judge Michael Luttig said that there is no Republican Party. He added that the political parties are the guardians of democracy and without them both our democracy is in great peril. Asked why…

Wednesday’s CNN presidential town hall in New Hampshire proved one thing — and proved it beyond a reasonable doubt, which is more than can be said of the countless trumped-up (no pun intended) charges brought against the event’s star. President…

As Ronald Reagan might say — there they go again. The “they” this time around is the Never Trump chorus insisting that not only can’t former President Donald Trump win the 2024 election, but he shouldn’t even be trying. Whether…

Democrats’ unstated midterm rallying cry to voters, a takeoff of their guiding mantra from an election thirty years ago, ordained, It’s not the economy, and you are stupid. Distract and deflect sum up in two words the Democratic Party’s winning strategy…

Ya can’t make it up. In this year’s midterms, the Republican leader of the United States Senate went out of his way to defeat Republican candidates for the United States Senate. Yes, you read that right. Here, for example, is…