Professorial Pre-emption: The Next Phase of Surrender
While public attention has been wrenched away from college campuses to the bloody streets of San Bernardino, the next phase in the surrender of the university to the forces of grievance is beginning....
View ArticleMissing Christopher Hitchens
Since fierce denial of the reality of Islamic radicalism has come to dominate the Democratic Party, I thought it would be useful to quote from the late Christopher Hitchens, one of the few men of the...
View ArticleFarook Family Lawyer: 'They Were Handcuffed, Lying Face Down in this Truck,...
One of two lawyers hired by Syed Farook’s family, David S. Chelsey, made some pretty outrageous claims in an interview with CNN:Chelsey: There’s a lot of disconnects and unknowns and things that, quite...
View ArticleNovember’s Stellar Jobs Report All but Guarantees a Rate Hike
Another batch of solid figures on the labor market all but seals the deal that the Federal Reserve will (finally!) start raising short-term interest rates on December 16.Payrolls increased 211,000 in...
View ArticleEx-Im Is Back in Business But Not for Big Companies. Let's Keep It That Way
Last night, Congress voted to revive the Ex-Im Bank — attaching reauthorization to an awful highway bill. Shame on them. However, there is a bit of good news. Congress’s vote in favor of cronyism...
View ArticleAn Islam of Their Very Own II – Now See How This Works?
As Jim notes below, various news outlets are now reporting that TashfeenMalik, the female jihadist involved in the San Bernardino terrorist attack on Wednesday, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State...
View ArticleWhy Are People So Riled Up About Zuckerberg's New-Fangled Philanthropy?
Jesse Eisinger, a prominent left-of-center journalist at ProPublica, has written a much admired, enthusiastically shared column attacking Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, for having...
View ArticleLast Call: NRI Seeks Applicants for 2016 Washington and New York Fellows
Did you skip the political-science courses in school, while preparing for your career in other fields? Are you right-leaning, but wish you knew more about the foundational principles of...
View ArticleNo, We Should Not Prohibit Those on the Terror Watch List from Purchasing Guns
Jonah writes:It’s rare that I take Barack Obama’s side against Charlie Cooke’s, but I’m inclined to agree with the president on the narrow merits of his new talking point about the terror watch list...
View ArticleMore on the Terror Watch List and Purchasing Guns
Charlie, I am sympathetic to most of your argument. But the law has never been that “If there’s not enough evidence to put out a warrant for somebody’s arrest, there’s not enough to take away his...
View ArticleMore on the Terror Watch List and Purchasing Guns
Charlie, I am sympathetic to most of your argument. But the law has never been that “If there’s not enough evidence to put out a warrant for somebody’s arrest, there’s not enough to take away his...
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An Insane Proposal, Allegedly Aiming to Help Jeb Bush
Let’s hope the unnamed source in this Politico story has no idea what he’s talking about:Mike Murphy, the Los Angeles-based ad man running Bush’s Right to Rise super PAC, isn’t about to leave the $75...
View ArticleAll Things Must Pass . . . and They Are Beautiful
The new movie Youth is a feast for the eyes, but it’s far more than that. It’s about two old men, a famous composer (played by Michael Caine) and a famous film director (Harvey Keitel) on summer...
View ArticleThe Most Pressing Issue in 95 Years
The Peace of Versailles, Buck v. Bell, the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor,* the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Ukrainian famine, the internment of Japanese-Americans, the Tuskegee experiments, the Holocaust,...
View ArticleWhen Power Fades, Turn Up the Volume
Last night I offered a bit of a rant about the The New York Times’ front page editorial. There’s one thought worth adding, I think. Putting the editorial on the frontpage is actually a sign of weakness...
View ArticleVery Tough Outings in the Concert Hall or Opera House
At The New Criterion, I have a funny post— funny strange and funny ha-ha (I hope). It has to do with a performance of Winterreise, the Schubert song-cycle, and one of the bleakest, most painful works...
View ArticleWhat Proof Is Obama Waiting For?
In this week’s G-File. I wrote it before the FBI finally confirmed that San Bernardino was being investigated as a “terrorist attack” and before we learned that that Tashfeen Malik had pledged...
View ArticleEuthanize Minors Say Alberta, Canada MDs
The Supreme Court of Canada imposed a radical euthanasia right–lethal injection as well as prescribed poison–on the entire country last year, and opined that the medical colleges (associations) should...
View ArticleRe: An Insane Proposal
Jim, Mike Murphy tells me that the notion they will “carpet bomb” everyone but Trump in the hopes of making it a Trump-Bush race is “dead wrong.” Although he says that they will, of course, consider...
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