Most people are aware that there is often a generational pendulum when it comes to politics. Not so long ago, the youth of the age were getting tattoos and piercings, experimenting with sexual freedom at music concerts, and donning awkward-looking…
Americans don’t like an open southern border. Both that and the fear of terrorism (one thinks those two items are not unrelated) rank as two of the most important issues to American voters in the coming election cycle, according to…
It has been 109 years since 1.5 million Armenians were deported, starved, or massacred by the Ottoman Empire in a genocide that took the world decades to recognize. They haven’t forgotten. Last week, thousands of the country’s citizens flooded the…
States matter again because Democrats’ radicalism has invigorated federalism. States have long been incubators of government innovation, and COVID was a watershed when state responses — especially lockdowns and school closures — accentuated differing governing approaches: Democrats responded to their…
Last night, during the eclipse, I was having a few drinks. That’s not the news. The news is that I was having drinks with a retired paratrooper who put his life on the line during various special operations in the…
I was born and raised in New York City and lived there until my early forties. I loved the city of my birth, although from time to time, like many others (even in those last days of the twentieth century,…
Happiness is an odd thing to measure. To begin with, it’s incredibly subjective. For instance, let’s suppose you’re a Gallup pollster and you ask me, “Were you happy last year?” while I’m listening to Pachelbel’s organ fugues on the Magnificat…
When most people think of Kansas they think of corn, and justifiably so: Just over 10 percent of the state was planted in corn last year. But that’s not how Americans thought of the territory during the first half of…
What do foreign policy realists hope for? Not global democracy. Not the emergence of greater global governance. Not a unipolar world led by the United States or China. Not an end to all international conflict. Realists understand that some of…
