And here comes the “No Labels” crowd. Over there in the Wall Street Journal comes this from former Reagan Secretary of the Navy John Lehman. The headline: Reagan Would Never Vote for Trump He also didn’t care much for Biden. Like me,…
Thurston Howell III went off on Gilligan now and then. In one episode the fictional tycoon got so mad he referred to the sailor as “probably not even a Republican.” That was when many pre-literate boomers got their first inkling…
It is not hard to detect almost a sigh of relief amidst the left-wing panic over the supposed attempt by so-called “Christian nationalists” to return American to a more religious time. At just the moment when progressivism is experiencing a…
The “Big Three” — Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis — have had a tough go of things lately. The recently concluded strikes by their employees were perhaps the most visible indication that all is not roses in U.S. Autoland, but…
In the midst of the assault on former President Donald Trump by a corrupt political and legal establishment, the Wall Street Journal, not a Trump fan, headlined this opinion commentary from Philip Hamburger: The First Amendment Threat in the Trump…
“These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognize the years of one’s prime, always remember that.” – Jean Brodie, a girls’ school teacher, in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark…
The headline at Fox News was big news. Rupert Murdoch announces transition to new role of Chairman Emeritus of Fox Corporation and News Corp. ‘For my entire professional life, I have been engaged daily with news and ideas, and that…
The disastrous teaching model of Zoom school is being revived in the post-COVID era — with a twist. Rural or poor school districts struggling to attract talent are hiring teachers to appear virtually in front of a physical classroom of…
This week in the Wall Street Journal, William A. Galston reached back to David Ben Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, to put Israel’s current struggle over judicial reform in perspective. Galston notes Ben Gurion’s rejection of the Madisonian idea of…
