If you’ll forgive the reference to the Elvis Costello classic of yesteryear, “Oliver’s Army” has grown up out of the hustings, and our elites simply refuse to reckon with it. The same thing keeps manifesting again and again in America,…
The summer of 2023 is witness to the next chapter in the history of the American conservative movement. The “Freedom Conservative” project came to be on July 13, 2023, as a response to growing authoritarianism on the left and the…
Central planning, never out of fashion on the left, is now more popular than ever on the right thanks to the GOP’s populist takeover. This is why a recurring effort to intervene in the credit-card processing market is finding more…
I wouldn’t call it a fascinating article that Alexander Bolton wrote at the Hill, the newspaper probably best identified with the out-of-touch Washington ruling elite, but it certainly was a clarifying piece of journalism. Bolton tells us that some of…
Harry Truman didn’t like pretension. Competence and honesty coupled with dedication to duty — these he respected. George Marshall, who served him both as Secretary of State and then as Secretary of Defense, commanded his complete respect. He called him…
It is good news that two-thirds of Chile’s voters have rejected the new constitution proposed by a convention made up mostly of loonies. That result seems to have given hope to some who had begun to write off Latin America,…
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…
There were two headlines from the last week that speak the same truth. Both are from Fox. The first is this: Trump easily wins Texas CPAC 2024 GOP presidential nomination straw poll; DeSantis second Trump captured 69.1% of ballots cast,…
The result of the first round of the presidential election has confronted France with the prospect of power in the hands of Marine Le Pen, the far-right populist leader. She is only two to four points behind President Emmanuel Macron…