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by | Aug 16, 2022

The showdown looms on Aug. 23, the date of the 2022 New York congressional primary election. In New York’s 2nd District out there on Long Island, incumbent Republican RINO Rep. Andrew Garbarino is facing a challenge from the Trump-supporting retired…

by | Aug 2, 2022

This column has talked about the highly entertaining yet thoroughly uncompetitive Senate race in Louisiana in which John Kennedy is certain to win reelection against a host of hapless contenders. But developments in that race which were 100 percent foreseeable…

by | May 21, 2022

What’s the matter with California? “It’s suffering from San Fransickness,” which is “pathological altruism,” answers Michael Shellenberger, author of the book San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities. Too many homeless people. Too little common sense. Too much magical thinking. Shellenberger…

by | May 17, 2022

Water worries have shaken the Valley of the Sun. Every day seems to bring new tremors of “end is near” fear to its 1.8 million inhabitants. The most recent temblor has to do with Superstition Vistas, a planned mini-city on…

by | Dec 21, 2021

Three years ago, Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule published “Integration from Within” — both a review of theorist Patrick Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed and a thorough condemnation of liberalism in its own right. Such post-liberal critiques are nothing new. What…

by | Dec 7, 2021

Some years ago, then-UK Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks reflected on the roiling conflict in America over abortion. When the conflict is understood as a struggle over rights, he said, it cannot be resolved. One cannot compromise on a right, or…

by | Nov 25, 2021

What’s wrong with conservatism in 2021? Nothing … and everything.  Nothing is wrong with conservatism because, applied correctly, it works. The ideals of our nation’s Founding Fathers work, and those are what conservatism seeks to conserve. No fault can be…

by | Jul 25, 2021

The Wall Street Journal recently reviewed a new book, Projections, written by Stanford neuroscientist and psychiatrist Karl Deisseroth. My undergraduate major was psychology, and my rabbinic study has for years centered on the literature of Chabad, which delves into the…

by | Jun 5, 2021

I was deeply interested in politics from childhood. I was gripped by the drama of the campaign for civil rights, and I was appalled by the shocking images of segregation and its violent supporters that I would see, beginning from…

by | Jun 1, 2021

“Matthew McConaughey Takes a Cruise,” editorial cartoon by Yogi Love for The American Spectator, June 1, 2021.

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