The Irish-American party bosses of Tammany Hall are no longer kingmakers on the Potomac, but, still, there remain enough voters from Boston to Baltimore who count themselves Sons of Erin to justify inviting the Taoiseach (our prime minister) to the…
Can it be a coincidence that Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump are in trouble with the law at the same time? There is a warrant out for the Russian vozhd, issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague….
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz recently remarked that only Russian President Vladimir Putin can bring peace to Europe by withdrawing his troops from Ukraine and seeking out peace talks. This sort of thinking isn’t just a fanciful departure from what we can…
Another week without World War III kicking off in full makes this a pretty good week. Forget about the bank failures, the collapsing American prestige as China plays peacemaker in the Persian Gulf, the southern border chaos escalating, and the…
Kudos to Mark Levin for posting on Twitter a fascinating piece by Professor Alexander Motyl on a new revelation about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plan to partition Ukraine way back in 2010. That was long before Volodymyr Zelensky was elected…
The work of human thought should withstand the test of brutal, naked reality. If it cannot, it is worthless. Probably only those things are worthwhile which can preserve their validity in the eyes of a man threatened with instant death….
In a 1940 speech, President Franklin Roosevelt labeled Detroit the “arsenal of democracy.” During World War II, Detroit alone built tens of thousands of tanks and other ground vehicles, aircraft, bombs, and guns. Much of the rest of our economy…
What are we watching in Ukraine? Is the Russian invasion a blundering failure by a desperate tyrant? Or is it possible that Vladimir Putin was correct in his estimate that Western democracies have become weak, decadent, and cowardly, so that…
“All across my country, in big cities and small towns, Ukrainian flags fly from American homes,” President Joe Biden told a crowd in Warsaw, Poland, last Tuesday. The remark is irksome because, as a progressive, Biden represents the political wing of…