Obama Disavows Diversity Hiring (Sort Of)
President Obama spoke at the University of Chicago law school last week about his nomination of Merrick Garland — a white male — to the Supreme Court. At one point, he was asked about “diversity” in...
View ArticleObama's Defense of Hillary Clinton's E-mail Server Was Irrelevant
On yesterday’s Fox News Sunday, President Obama defended Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server and downplayed the suggestion that she had played fast and loose with classified information. Among...
View ArticleOh, Let's Cut Ivanka Trump Some Slack
The easy joke at this moment is that if Donald Trump can’t organize his children to register as Republicans in New York State, how’s he going to out-manuver Ted Cruz or another candidate in a delegate...
View ArticleGlobalism and Free Trade: Apples and Oranges
Support for free international trade does not entail support for political globalization. Importing bananas from a country that has a comparative advantage in banana production is in the economic...
View ArticleDear John Kasich, Robust Religious Liberty Protections Help Americans 'Chill...
Yesterday, speaking on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” John Kasich indicated that he wouldn’t sign a religious liberty bill and instead oh-so-helpfully urged people to “chill out.” Here are his remarks:First,...
View ArticleTrump’s Shameful 9/11 Politicking
This past weekend, Donald Trump finally visited the 9/11 memorial in lower Manhattan with his wife, Melania. Per Maggie Haberman of the New York Times, members of media were confined to a van while...
View ArticleFormer CIA Counsel: The Agency Would Refuse Unlawful Actions Proposed By Trump
On Sunday, CIA Director John Brennan said in an interview with NBC News that he would not allow enhanced interrogation tactics, including waterboarding, even if a future president ordered it.Today...
View ArticleWebathoners Speak!
Friends, Romans, and countrymen, we’ve got the Spring 2016 NR Webathon underway, and we’re hoping you’ll consider Jay Nordlinger’s wise and cheerful explanation as to why you should contribute — which...
View ArticleA Writer, a Radio Host, a Theologian & a Marriage Innovator on the Joy of Love
Over the weekend, I sent some experts and observers a few general questions about that new apostolic exhortation from Pope Francis on love. (I shared some other insights earlier today here.)Here’s what...
View ArticleThe Remarkable Thing About Obama's 'Worst Mistake'
In an interview Sunday with Chris Wallace, President Obama said that failing to plan for a post-Qaddafi Libya was his worst mistake. While I think his worst mistake was abandoning Iraq in 2011, this is...
View ArticleInto Every Life . . .
I have become over the years a connoisseur of the bureaucratic mind. I love to watch it operate, its inexorable and sometimes magnificent progress toward ends that range from trivial to malevolent. It...
View ArticleVote for Ralph Nader
For the 30-member Harvard Board of Overseers, that is.Together with legal journalist Stuart Taylor, physicist Stephen Hsu, software developer Ron Unz, and Asian-American Legal Foundation co-founder Lee...
View ArticleAmericans Continue to Buy Firearms at a Record Pace
CNN reports:FBI background checks for gun purchases have surged by more than a third this year, compared to the first quarter of 2015.This puts 2016 is on track to surpass last year’s record of 23...
View ArticleNo Surprise: White House Puts Out Misleading Infographic on Corporate Inversions
The White House has released a misleading infographic on inversions titled, “You Don’t Get to Pick Your Tax Rate. Neither Should Corporations.”This is both a terrible title and a terrible pitch to...
View ArticleTwelve Things that Caught My Eye Today (April 11, 2016)
1. New York’s Cardinal Dolan in Iraq tells Christians and Yazidisthey are not forgotten.He tells seminarians there they will convert the world.2. La Stampa: King Abdullah II of Jordan funds Holy...
View ArticleRyan 2016
Another problem with the Ryan-at-a-convention scenario is that he appears genuinely uninterested (not surprisingly, since 1) he has very good judgment; 2) has a big task already in managing the House)....
View ArticleHillary Is Attempting to Have It Both Ways with Bill
Part of Hillary Clinton’s appeal is that she is supposedly the most experienced person running for the White House in 2016, and that part of this experience includes her time spent as first lady of the...
View ArticleTy Cobb the Great
Everything you thought you knew about Ty Cobb is wrong, according to Charles Leerhsen, author of Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty. In a 10-minute conversation with The Bookmonger, Leerhsen describes why so...
View ArticleA Conservative Alternative to Equal Pay Day
Each year, a conglomeration of feminist groups declares a day in April “Equal Pay Day,” supposedly the day when working women have finally earned enough income to make up for last year’s wage gap....
View ArticleA New York Perspective on Trump and 9/11
I just saw yesterday’s Corner post by Stephen Miller quoting Donald Trump on the World Trade Center, a week after its destruction: “To be blunt, they were not ‘great’ buildings . . . . They only became...
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