The Pence Announcement
It seemed like Trump was doing everything he could to signal his lack of enthusiasm about his own pick–he rambled on during the introduction, only occasionally coming back to Pence and his record in...
View ArticleBrexit: Yes Or No Was What It Had To Be
Working out why Brits voted the way they did in the EU referendum (beyond the answers they themselves gave in polls immediately after the event) will, doubtless, occupy analysts of all descriptions for...
View ArticleThree Things about Turkey
I’m no Turkey-ologist, but I will pass along some observations from a Turkish-American businessman with extensive experience in the region.First, neither the success nor the failure of the coup...
View ArticleTrump Voter Derangement Syndrome
Bernie Goldberg has been a hard critic of Donald Trump, but he’s a harsher critic of deep-end lefty journalists. In the crosshairs in his new column is Esquire essayist/blogger Charles Pierce, whose...
View ArticleSingling Out the Speaker: A Few Thoughts
In our latest Need to Know, Mona Charen and I discuss many things, including, of course, Trump — and his endorsers. I express particular regret about Paul Ryan. And I’ll tell you why.Paul Ryan knows....
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Three Modest Propositions
In future presidential editorialization about the shooting deaths of police officers, perhaps the president himself might first offer a few “words matter” gestures that would reassure law enforcement,...
View ArticleMea Culpa
Buzzfeed’s excellent reporter McKay Coppins has a fascinating piece on what inspired Trump to run. In short, “the haters” had something to do with it. Apparently I deserve some of the blame:As the date...
View ArticleThe 60 Minutes Interview
It wasn’t a high point for Mike Pence. Despite all his efforts to ingratiate himself, Trump interrupted him and established his dominance in every possible way. It was sort of a friendly-fire version...
View ArticleBREAKING: Three Police Officers Killed in Baton Rouge, Three Wounded
4:53 PM: NBC News’s Pete Williams has reported that the shooter is Gavin Long, 29, of Kansas City, Mo. Police suspect officers were lured to the scene by a 911 call.NBC News’ Pete Williams: Shooter is...
View Article‘Law and Order’ Sounds Really Appealing Right Now
The first two sections of the Monday Morning Jolt, kicking off GOP Convention week!‘Law and Order’ Sounds Really Appealing Right NowUrgh. The awful news piles up like snow in a blizzard: Orlando,...
View ArticleFateful Journey
Earlier, Jonah had a post about McKay Coppins’s fascinating piece about Donald Trump: the anxieties and resentments that drive him. Reading Coppins’s piece, especially about Trump’s early years, I...
View ArticleTrump Talk
One of the great complaints of Trump supporters is that no one listens to them — a complaint with some merit, I think. Well, I have listened to them. “I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.”...
View ArticleMake Honduran T-Shirts Great Again!
Political t-shirts are a staple of the airport gift shops and newsstands in Washington. This year, the Trump shirts feature the candidate’s smiling face and the words, “Believe me! It’s going to be...
View ArticleA Conversation with Deirdre McCloskey
I sat down recently with the eminent economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey on the occasion of the publication of Bourgeois Equality, the third volume of her trilogy celebrating the bourgeois...
View ArticleObama’s Selfish Response to the Baton Rouge Police Murders
It must be that he just can’t help himself. It must be that he assumes that anything he chooses to say is precisely what is called for. It must be that there isn’t a single person in his employ who...
View ArticleMy Error: The Timing of Hillary Clinton’s Statement about Islam
I made a sloppy factual error in my weekend column, which was about our national refusal to grasp the fact that radical Islam and jihadist terror are catalyzed by an ideology that is rooted in Islamic...
View ArticleCoburn vs. Trump?! Why, Who, and How
At my own little web site yesterday, I broke the news that Dr. Tom Coburn, the solidly conservative and almost universally liked (even by Dems and the media) former U.S. senator from Oklahoma, would...
View ArticleThe New Yorker Talks to Trump's Ghostwriter
Jane Mayer has a profile of Donald Trump in The New Yorker. For conservatives who have been consuming news for any period of time, that combination should set off alarm bells that this is an unfair hit...
View ArticleHow Republican Campaign Consultants Have Failed the Party
A major part of the story of 2015–16 on the right has been the loss of faith by Republican and conservative voters with “the Establishment” in the GOP, a loss of faith that in different ways fueled the...
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Let's Talk About Race and Violence
In these years of black men getting shot on a daily basis, the national conversation on race has ranged far and wide. Amazingly, however, the conversation seldom touches on the root of the problem: The...
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