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Jul 13, 2026
Regular readers may note that I am rather deeply haunted by a paragraph written almost exactly a decade ago by the late, great Angelo Codevilla. It was, perhaps, his most important...
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Jun 29, 2026
A couple of weeks ago, at the dedication ceremony for his presidential library, Barack Obama made a speech in which he addressed the Founding Fathers. “In forming our union,” he...
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Jun 8, 2026
Fans of outlaw country music will recall an old song called “Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues,” which appeared on Waylon Jennings’s 1973 album Lonesome, On’ry, and Mean....
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May 18, 2026
In this world, there are many, many things I don’t know. I don’t know New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, for example. Beyond the limited knowledge that he is a...
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May 4, 2026
In the week-plus since the latest attempt on President Trump’s life, many on the Right and in the political Center are, at long last, waking up to the possibility that the...
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Feb 23, 2026
Over the past week or so, many on the political Right have understandably enjoyed a laugh or two at the expense of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, N.Y.). AOC went to the...
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Feb 9, 2026
If you take a close look at some of the major news stories that have captured our collective attention over the last few weeks, you may notice a peculiar pattern. We’ll start in...
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Feb 2, 2026
[French Finance Minister Jacques] Necker, you remember, asked the people to come and help him against the aristocracy. The people came fast enough at his bidding, but, somehow or...
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Jan 26, 2026
I will spare you a discussion of the hows and whys of my discovery of it, but a little more than a decade ago, I discovered one of the most interesting and informative little books I...
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Jan 19, 2026
For the better part of the last half-century, the word “liberal” has largely been a pejorative in American political discourse. Just this past week, for example, The New...
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Jan 12, 2026
I don’t mean to sound like a conspiracy nut, but we’re being manipulated. By “we,” I mean all of us—you, me, anybody who is exposed to any media at all,...
Jul 13, 2026Regular readers may note that I am rather deeply haunted by a paragraph written almost exactly a decade ago by the late, great Angelo Codevilla. It was, perhaps, his most important...
Jun 29, 2026A couple of weeks ago, at the dedication ceremony for his presidential library, Barack Obama made a speech in which he addressed the Founding Fathers. “In forming our union,” he...
Jun 8, 2026Fans of outlaw country music will recall an old song called “Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues,” which appeared on Waylon Jennings’s 1973 album Lonesome, On’ry, and Mean....
May 18, 2026In this world, there are many, many things I don’t know. I don’t know New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, for example. Beyond the limited knowledge that he is a...
May 4, 2026In the week-plus since the latest attempt on President Trump’s life, many on the Right and in the political Center are, at long last, waking up to the possibility that the...
Feb 23, 2026Over the past week or so, many on the political Right have understandably enjoyed a laugh or two at the expense of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, N.Y.). AOC went to the...
Feb 9, 2026If you take a close look at some of the major news stories that have captured our collective attention over the last few weeks, you may notice a peculiar pattern. We’ll start in...
Feb 2, 2026[French Finance Minister Jacques] Necker, you remember, asked the people to come and help him against the aristocracy. The people came fast enough at his bidding, but, somehow or...
Jan 26, 2026I will spare you a discussion of the hows and whys of my discovery of it, but a little more than a decade ago, I discovered one of the most interesting and informative little books I...
Jan 19, 2026For the better part of the last half-century, the word “liberal” has largely been a pejorative in American political discourse. Just this past week, for example, The New...
Jan 12, 2026I don’t mean to sound like a conspiracy nut, but we’re being manipulated. By “we,” I mean all of us—you, me, anybody who is exposed to any media at all,...