August 5, 2024

With Harris, the Dems Double Down on Elitism

On Saturday, July 13, a day now understandably remembered for other reasons, Bernie Sanders, the senior senator from Vermont and a Democratic Socialist, wrote the lead article in the New York Times op-ed pages making a more cogent case for President ...

July 15, 2024

Democrats Try Their Hand at Reality TV

For the (very brief) moment, Joe Biden appears to have fended off challenges to his run for a second term, but, as Jon Stewart said on Monday on The Daily Show, the four months until November is a very long time.  Events of the past few day...

July 7, 2024

A Replaceable President

In the rush to know everything about Joe Biden’s road to or away from the White House, we may be forgetting what it is we actually know, and what it likely means: the dramatic recurrence of an insider play we have seen many times before. On ...

July 5, 2024

Legal Bureaucrats Infect the Supreme Court

“You Americans, you are so naïve,” Joseph Brodsky, a Soviet dissident who was also a Nobel laureate in literature, is supposed to have said to students of his at Columbia sometime in the seventies or the eighties.  “Y...

June 30, 2024

A Biden Replacement? Obama Involved?

Conspiracy stories come out of Hollywood, and insider plays come out of Washington, D.C., but sometimes there doesn’t seem to be much difference between them. Four years ago in March, before Super Tuesday, Pete Buttigieg, seen as a plausible...

May 29, 2024

The Corruption of Supreme Court Coverage

In 1979, Renata Adler, a New Yorker staff writer and Yale Law School graduate, wrote a negative review of The Brethren, Bob Woodward’s and Scott Armstrong’s book on the inner workings of the Supreme Court, for the front page of The New Yo...

April 2, 2024

Have the Justices Been Captured by Media?

Today’s Supreme Court is seen as an outsider institution in Washington: either a bastion of limiting government in a government town or a rogue assaulter of what Washington insiders like to call “the common good.”  But this per...

November 2, 2023

How Blinken and Company Laid the Groundwork for the Hamas Attack

Banner headline events almost always flow from quieter real-life causes, and the worst attack on Israel in fifty years is not an exception.  The coordinated raids and massacres on October 7 were possible only because of more subtle interventions...

September 5, 2023

The Neocons Are Back

If the obvious impacts of America's proxy war in Ukraine are lives lost and debt accrued, a quieter impact is the neoconservatives' revival.  A few weeks ago, the Biden administration conferred the deputy secretary of state position...

August 4, 2023

Gen-Z for Change: Biden’s Astroturf Youth Group

Last Thursday, at a White House event for progressive groups hosted by Press Secretary Karine Jean- Pierre, whose presentations fail to invigorate either viewers or journalists, a young attendee broke into the scheduled speeches with a protest. When ...

July 15, 2023

SCOTUS Monks: Media Attacks on the Supreme Court Cross a Different Line

Unsteady politics breeds ugly innovations, and this year, those innovations are striking at the heart of America's constitutional order.  In the last half-week alone, three negative stories about Supreme Court justices have appeared in ...

July 8, 2023

How Leftists Are Bypassing Red-State Legislatures to Corrupt Kids

For conservatives, Democratic infiltrations of state agencies to swing coming elections represent an immediate threat.  But another infiltration accomplishes similar ends by longer-term means: creating "Trauma-Informed Schools" fo...