18+ hour, 9+ min ago   (492+ words) The busybody has always played an important, eternal function. This was not a cinematic rescue as we see on Netflix these days, with no swelling music and no female superheroes. Just a concerned woman citizen getting involved. There were no…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1088+ words) Last Wednesday, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan sent FBI Director Kash Patel a letter demanding every document connected to an operation codenamed Round River. If […] Source Last Wednesday, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan sent FBI Director Kash Patel a letter…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1236+ words) The Women’s National Basketball Association has recently brought a lot of absurd troubles on itself because its own leaders are unable or unwilling to state […] Source The Women’s National Basketball Association has recently brought a lot of absurd troubles on…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (318+ words) Bukele, Milei, Kast—and now De la Espriella: The search for a post-progressive political model. First El Salvador in Central America, then Argentina and Chile in the south, now Colombia in the north of Latin America—and on the other…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (672+ words) My old friend Jeremy Black, the dazzlingly prolific English historian, has an excellent piece in this month’s edition of The Critic on the history profession’s newfound infatuation with “theory.” In some ways, as Black notes, the interest in theory is…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (711+ words) The Left has shredded the governing paradigm. Once more in these trying times, Americans are compelled to recognize and reflect upon the lessons of history. First, we are compelled to note the danger posed by the radical Left that has…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (791+ words) America is surging ahead while Canada stagnates, and that growing asymmetry—not trade alone—is driving the acrimony between two longtime allies. At first glance, the current American-Canadian trade “war” is absurd. We are neighbors with a long history of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1185+ words) The West has mastered the technology of civilization but embraced the politics of barbarism, creating a modern medieval world where progress and regression coexist. For most people, the story of the medieval world was one of cramped cities, constant violent…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (193+ words) Academia, as it is currently constituted, is incompatible with the societal need for civics and humanities “education.” The case of Syracuse University is, I think, instructive here, offering both an explanation of how the preoccupation with knowledge “discovery” is ultimately…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1283+ words) Same playbook, same coalition. The Tea Party didn’t die of old age. It was out-funded, out-litigated, and out-narrated by a coalition that had far more to lose from its success than from its failure. Fifteen years later, a strikingly similar…...