Is it inevitable that Donald Trump will be the second person in history — Richard Nixon was the first — to win the Republican Party’s nomination for president three times? Many thoughtful observers, and others […]
The 2020s are starting to look like the 1930s, as I wrote last week in the wake of Hamas’ unprecedentedly vicious attack on Israel. Nations that embody, imperfectly but creditably in any historical perspective, representative […]
“The World Turned Upside Down.” That’s the song, or so longstanding legend would have it, that the British army band played after surrendering to American and French forces at Yorktown, 242 years ago. You can […]
Net zero is in trouble. In utterly predictable trouble, in the king’s-wearing-no-clothes trouble The signs are all around. Governments from coastal America to Communist China and businesses from automakers to toymakers have promised that they […]
“Populist politicians and parties,” writes the Ethics and Public Policy Center’s Henry Olsen in The Spectator, are “rapidly gaining strength and power across the developed world.” They’re doing so despite the opposition and angry scorn […]
Are non-white voters really moving away from the Democratic Party? To partisan Democrats confronting this question on Twitter (sorry, X), it seems preposterous that the party of former President Donald Trump, whom they routinely call […]
You could blame Victor Hugo. In 1846, the French novelist observed a young man being arrested for holding a loaf of bread he stole. Deeply touched, he fashioned his novel “Les Miserables,” published in 1862, […]
No one knows whether last weekend’s Wagner Group uprising means the end of President Vladimir Putin’s control of Russia, just as no one knew before the last few weeks of 1999 that Putin would replace […]
Gov. Chris Sununu (R-N.H.) is not running for president. In his state’s first-in-the-nation primary, “I can be more effective for the Republican Party in ways few other leaders can,” he wrote in the Washington Post. […]
The Wollman Rink episode, or, rather, the unduly optimistic conclusion I drew from it, explains a lot about Donald Trump’s presidency and why he may not do as well against Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) in […]
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