-
Recent Posts
Meta
Calendar
National Review
Quillette
- Trump and the DEI Counter-Revolution February 8, 2025Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it.Thomas F. Powers
- Podcast #271: The Canadian Episode—Trump’s Tariffs and Trudeau’s Travails February 8, 2025Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with The Line editor Jen Gerson about how US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats have affected Canada’s already fractured political landscape.Quillette
- Gaz-a-Largo February 8, 2025So far, Donald Trump is the only political leader to have publicly pinpointed the basic problem with Gaza.Benny Morris
- Trump and the DEI Counter-Revolution February 8, 2025
Jay Nordlinger
- Men of Letters, Etc. February 6, 2025Reader mail on Sir Walter Scott, Professor Edward Tayler, et al.Jay Nordlinger
- Dreams of Gaza, &c. February 6, 2025On a proposed new adventure; Orwell in Syria; indecency in the State Department; the late basso Paul Plishka; and more.Jay Nordlinger
- ‘It’s Just Evil’ February 4, 2025Notes on the assault by Putin’s Russia on Ukrainian civilians.Jay Nordlinger
- Men of Letters, Etc. February 6, 2025
Categories
Recent Comments
- rich on Donald Trump—Loser
- rich on It isn’t Over Until the Fat Lady Sings
- rich on The Coming November Slaughter
- rich on Will the Real Bernie Sanders Please Stand Up?
- rich on Amy Palin Klobuchar on Mexico
Archives
- December 2024
- October 2024
- September 2024
- August 2024
- July 2024
- June 2024
- May 2024
- April 2024
- February 2024
- January 2024
- December 2023
- November 2023
- October 2023
- July 2023
- March 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- November 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- May 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- January 2016
Monthly Archives: May 2024
Flagged
A lot of liberals are up-in-arms (figuratively speaking) about Justice Sam Alito (yet again). They cite 2 related reasons as proximate causes for their angst. (1) Three years ago, Justice Alito’s wife hung an upside down flag in front of … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Comments Off on Flagged
Is Donald J. Trump a Conservative?
At the moment former President and current Republican presidential nominee Donald J Trump is the defendant in a books-and-records criminal trial in lower Manhattan. Serious people doubt that the books-and-records charges should ever have been brought, much less blown up … Continue reading
Are Liberalism and Progressivism Compatible?
Robert Frost , the American poet, once observed that “A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel”. Which brings up an interesting question. Can American liberals differentiate their traditional brand of liberalism from … Continue reading
Posted in Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Politics
Comments Off on Are Liberalism and Progressivism Compatible?
Problem Solving 2024 Style
If the proverbial Martian were to land on planet earth and peruse the news he would quickly discover that the United States currently has several severe, possibly existential problems with which it has to deal. According to the news, the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Comments Off on Problem Solving 2024 Style
Presidential Immunity? No Thanks.
Q: Where in the Constitution is any form of immunity specified. A: Nowhere So how is it that the Supreme Court is embroiled in a case in which apparently serious people argue that former President Trump is immunized against … Continue reading