Rome, Brussels and Ventotene
Writing in Britain’s Catholic Herald, Ed West reports on the attitude taken by the Vatican to Brexit. I touched on this last week in a discussion on the award to the Pope of the Charlemagne prize, the...
View ArticleTrump’s Taxes
Last week America was introduced to Anthony Senecal, that curious octogenarian who lives in Trump’s house in Florida and writes bilious Facebook posts about his view that the president should be...
View ArticleTaking the Temperature of American Pop
I think American popular music has been a genuine wonder of the world, one of the most consequential cultural phenomena of the past century. You hear it on local radios from Lusaka to Seoul to Rio de...
View ArticleIt Ain't Over 'til the Alien Wins
“Immigration cases — like old soldiers — seem never to die.”That’s the opening line of the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in a recent case that exemplifies the relentless war on America’s...
View ArticleNow, We Shouldn't Eat Fish!
The New York Times obsessively publishes columns in its opinion section and the Magazine trying to convince us that humans are not unique, and moreover, that we shouldn’t eat meat, that plants are the...
View ArticleWhen Restating the Law Can Become Empowering The Sex Police
Few people who aren’t lawyers have ever heard of the American Law Institute, the most important organization in the country that seeks to clarify and modernize the nation’s laws. Its annual meeting...
View ArticleMonday links
Ten Inventions Predicted By The Simpsons.How consumption (aka tuberculosis) came to influence fashion and beauty of the Victorian era.Father Builds Robotic Pancreas for His Diabetic Son.This is What...
View ArticleAgainst the Grievance Culture
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas delivered the commencement address at Hillsdale College on Saturday. Here’s what he said. Clarence Thomas
View ArticleAre Republican Voters Interested in What Republican Lawmakers Are Doing?
From the first Morning Jolt of the week:Are Republican Voters Interested in What Republican Lawmakers Are Doing?“Those Republicans in Washington never do anything!”Actually, the House of...
View ArticleTrump and Women
It’s not exactly breaking news that Trump is a boor, but the Times did an extensive story on his interactions with women over the weekend that, given how a central figure (no pun intended) says she was...
View ArticleDoings in Nebraska
The Nebraska GOP reprimanded Ben Sasse over the weekend for his renegade views — I guess he’s a renegade goy? — on Donald Trump. It is at least a little curious that the sponsor of the resolution is...
View ArticleTemporary Protected Status Means Never Having to Go Home
Congress in 1990 created something called Temporary Protected Status in an attempt to hem in unilateral executive actions on immigration. The law created a framework for presidents to let illegal...
View ArticleToo Ghastly
I can give only a qualified recommendation of Nicholas Casey’s New York Times report on the state of Venezuela’s hospitals. Click on the link if you don’t mind having your sleep disturbed: The text is...
View ArticleA Standpont to Consider
A few weeks ago, Andy McCarthy, in a post on the election of Sadiq Khan as mayor of London, quoted from an incisive essay by Daniel Johnson in Standpoint. To my chagrin, I only recently became aware of...
View ArticleLet Things Take Their Course
There’s an old thought experiment in ethics known as the “Trolley Problem.” There’s an out-of-control trolley car speeding toward a collision in which dozens of people would die. There’s also a spur...
View ArticleGame of Thrones Recap: Reunions Aplenty (SPOILERS)
*** The following contains spoilers from Sunday night’s Game of Thrones episode, “Book of Stranger.” ***David French pointed out two weeks ago that Game of Thrones— venturing for the first time beyond...
View ArticleThe Little Sisters of the Poor Just Beat the Obama Administration at the...
While the consensus view seems to be that the Supreme Court “punted” today by sending the Little Sisters of the Poor case back to the lower courts, I must respectfully dissent. Although the Court...
View ArticleLee Amendment Can Stop AFFH
Congress once again has a very real chance to stop President Obama’s wildly overreaching Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation. Senator Mike Lee has proposed an amendment to defund...
View ArticleCold War in 10 Minutes?
Everything you wanted to know about the Cold War in 10 minutes? Not quite, but my new 10-minute Bookmonger podcast is with Elizabeth Spalding Edwards, co-author of A Brief History of the Cold War. Reagan
View ArticleWhy Announce Your Debate Lines of Attack Now?
Is the best possible debate strategy for Donald Trump?Donald J. Trump plans to throw Bill Clinton’s infidelities in Hillary Clinton’s face on live television during the presidential debates this fall,...
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