National Review- Quillette
- Misadventures of a Stalinist Stooge April 25, 2024Benn Steil’s engrossing new biography of Henry A. Wallace is a timely cautionary tale and a masterpiece of 20th-century American history.Ronald Radosh
- DEI Was Supposed to Help People Like Me. It Didn’t April 24, 2024My bosses wanted my Caribbean face at diversity training sessions. What they didn’t want were my actual viewpoints.Raquel Rosario Sánchez
- The Lonely Death of an Ojibway Boy April 23, 2024Charlie Wenjack has come to symbolise the deadly horrors of Canada’s Residential Schools. Unfortunately, many details of his tragic story have been misrepresented in the process.Robert MacBain
- Misadventures of a Stalinist Stooge April 25, 2024
- Jay Nordlinger
- Tale of the Tip, Etc. April 26, 2024Reader mail on the anxiety of tipping and more.
- Hotbeds, &c. April 26, 2024On student activism; the Republican Party; democratic Portugal; shoulders of giants; and more.
- Duos, Etc. April 24, 2024Reader mail on Lerner & Loewe, ‘The Master and Margarita,’ the Confederacy, and more.
- Tale of the Tip, Etc. April 26, 2024
Monthly Archives: December 2020
The Moderate Mr. Biden and Other Fantasies
During the recent presidential primary and election campaigns the underlying question concerning Joe Biden was, given his druthers, how would a President Biden govern? One of the more interesting fantasies marketed by the Biden campaign was (and remains) that President-elect … Continue reading
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Tagged Administrative State, Equality act, First amendment, Joe Biden, religious freedom
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A Supposed Return to “Normalcy”
President-elect Joe Biden won the race by running a determined campaign that focused exclusively on an indisputable fact. Joe Biden is not Donald Trump. To which the voters responded by giving Trump the heave-ho while cutting into the Democratic majority … Continue reading
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Tagged Christine Blasey Ford, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Maxine Waters, Xavier Becarra
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Too Much Democracy?
As the 116th Congress draws to a close, we must confront the fact that a large majority—64%—of the Republican Congressional caucus signed on to an amicus brief siding with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton seeking to bar Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania … Continue reading
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Sore Loser
On Friday evening the Supreme Court refused to hear the case brought by Texas’s Attorney General and joined by 18 additional Attorney’s General, all of whom are Republicans. The plaintiffs in the case sought to have the Court throw out … Continue reading
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Tagged Alito, Donald Trump, election 2020, Ken Paxton, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Texas, Thomas
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Mainstream Madness
A little over 50 years ago James Burnham authored a book titled “Suicide of the West”. It was his thesis that the West had lost faith in its institutions and culture. As a result, the West, especially its intellectuals and … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, Douglas Murray, Hoover Institution, Peter Robinson, politics
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