October 19, 2024

News Flash: Trump Is Uncle Sam!

To understand what’s unfolding in this election year, we need to view Trump not only as a candidate, and not merely as a man, but as a symbol — as if he were the personification of Uncle Sam, brought to life in an attempt to save America ...

January 14, 2024

Blaming the Jews: An International Pastime

Ironically, Hamas’s gruesome attack on Israeli civilians on October 7, instead of unleashing a flood of criticism of jihadist Muslims, has turned up the fire under the apparently ever-simmering cauldron of anti-Semitism. Everyone seems focus...

April 2, 2020

Coronavirus: America's March of Madness

One of my favorite rituals takes place on Sunday mornings in my tranquil little suburb of Menlo Park here in California.  We have a lovely once-a-week outdoor farmers' market abounding with stalls filled with fresh vegetables, fruit, an...

November 14, 2019

How the college bribery scandal might revitalize America

If I ask my students to write about aphorisms like "crime doesn't pay" or "cheaters never prosper," they find it difficult, since they know from their own observations that cheaters do indeed often prosper.  Yet that...

October 24, 2019

Trump Derangement Syndrome: A Misdiagnosis

Listen to Fox News, and you'll hear phrases such as "Trump derangement syndrome" and "liberal heads are exploding" on a daily basis.  Conservative newscasts are peppered with comments like these: "They're delu...

February 5, 2019

Should William Barr Be Barred from Confirmation?

We're about to see justice in America once more. At least that's the picture we get from watching Fox News, as media pundits assure us that William Barr, President Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general, is a consummate profession...

March 4, 2018

America's Got Felons

President Trump's State of the Union address was extraordinary not only for the good news the president highlighted about our economy and more, but also for the polarized reactions of Congress on display during this nationally televised event. ...

November 4, 2017

All the news that's fit to overthrow the Republic

James O'Keefe of Project Veritas did a fine job of exposing the culture of anti-Trump bias behind the scenes at the New York Times, but the paper of record just...well, trumped him. How? On November 1, the Times ran a full-page incendiary a...

October 13, 2017

A Tale of Two Speakers

Americans are divided on what we want: the sovereign Republic bequeathed to us, along with liberty and our constitutional form of representative government, or an open-borders one-world socialist "utopia."  Thanks to the radical left...

May 12, 2017

How Ivanka Trump Can Save the Republic

If Ivanka Trump listens to the Americans who elected her father in one of the greatest upsets in American electoral history, she will discover her clear path to saving our Republic. It is a measure of the unprecedented nature of the period of hist...