Brexit Will Be Okay
From my most recent NRO article, about the aftermath of Britain’s vote: “Now Britain is back to the starting gate, but its position is enviable: Europe will make some concessions to keep Britain, as...
View ArticleAre You Ready for the #DangeroustoBelieve Conversation? 10 Highlights.
http://www.heritage.org/events/2016/06/dangerous-to-believeToday at noon EST, the National Review Institute co-hosts an event discussing religious liberty, surrounding Mary Eberstadt’s new book, It’s...
View ArticleTen Things that Caught My Eye Today (June 28, 2016)
1. New York Times: Elaborate Suicide Attack Hits Christian Village in Lebanon2. Public Discourse: Luma Simms on Mary Eberstadt’s new book, It’s Dangerous to Believe.3. Pre-tweeting today’s event from...
View ArticleExplaining the Primaries
I was nodding along, as usual, with Dan McLaughlin’s article today until the very end. He’s right that Trump’s support was multifaceted, right again that the complaint that an excess of partisanship...
View ArticleThe Lion Roars
I’m not going to resist the temptation to comment on the Brexit vote. The campaign was fascinating, and I imagine that most observers of politics followed it closely. From the beginning, I leaned...
View ArticleBrexit and the Counter-Cosmopolitans
For Americans contemplating our peculiar political moment, the lessons of last week’s British vote to exit the EU may have less to do with the outcome than with the nature of the referendum and of the...
View ArticlePretty Much Every Anti-Brexit Facebook Post in Britain
That ubiquitous anti-Brexit Facebook post, in archetypal form:I am just appalled by what is happening in Britain. I want to live in a country in which people of all viewpoints and backgrounds can live...
View ArticleSidney Blumenthal and Media Matters
Sidney Blumenthal is one of those oddly permanent figures in American politics. Starting in the mid-1990s, the journalist has been an enduring presence around the Clinton family, and he is thought to...
View ArticleShould Federal Judges Be Impeached for Publicly Repudiating the Constitution?
Over at Slate, Judge Richard A. Posner of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, recently had this to say:I see absolutely no value to a judge of spending decades, years, months, weeks, day, hours, minutes,...
View ArticleWhite House Says There Is Declining Demand for Low-Skill Workers, Then Calls...
A new White House report on why low-skill men have been dropping out of the labor force received favorable coverage last week in the Washington Post, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. Each media...
View ArticleA Desire for Change Won't Be Enough for Trump to Win
Stephen Moore recently expressed a theory about the election, one I’ve found to be commonly held by Trump supporters who are optimistic about his chances, with the economy that Twitter forces on its...
View ArticleSnead on the Abortion Case
Whether in a spurt of open-mindedness or by some glorious oversight, CNN asked Notre Dame law professor Carter Snead (a leading intellectual light of the pro-life movement) to offer his views about...
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Pro-life Optimism after Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt
Pro-lifers have every reason to be disappointed with the Supreme Court’s ruling in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. In the wake of the Kermit Gosnell trial, Texas took the lead in enacting...
View ArticleDissent over the Democratic Platform
Forced to grapple with dissent, the Democratic party continues to splinter.In St. Louis, key Democrats appointed by Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz gathered to create a...
View ArticleThanks to SCOTUS, Vicious Anti-Christian State Action Is Legal in the Ninth...
Today the Supreme Court declined to hear one of the most extraordinary and plainly vicious anti-Christian cases I’ve ever seen. My friends and colleagues at the Alliance Defending Freedom represent the...
View ArticleAl Qaeda: Kill White People So the Left Doesn't Screw Up the Narrative
This would be hilarious if it didn’t signify how twisted our world has become:Lone wolf jihadists should target white Americans so no one mistakes their terror attacks for hate crimes unrelated to the...
View ArticleTrade and Paul Ryan
The latest issue of NR includes an article of mine on the politics of trade, an article that has now been put on our homepage. While writing it I came across a largely like-minded article by Daniel...
View ArticleNew RNC Proposal: No Rules Changes in Cleveland
What’s the surest way to prevent Donald Trump’s opponents from re-writing the GOP’s rules to deny him the nomination at next month’s convention? According to a new proposal from Republican National...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: 'Destabilized' Turkey 'Feels Surrounded and Isolated'
Charles Krauthammer observes that Turkey, in the wake of a terror attack in Istanbul, is destabilized:Well, I think it’s most likely ISIS. It could be the Kurds, who’ve carried out a lot of terror...
View ArticleZero, Zilch, Nada
This is the most extraordinary break-down of swing-state ad spending you’ll ever see, from First Read (numbers are from June): Colorado: Team Clinton $2.9 million, Team Trump $0 Florida: Team Clinton...
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