Matt Purple

The Donald Trump Show’s biggest plot twist yet

30 June 2022 3:19 am

Since it debuted in 2016, The Donald Trump Show — the televised meta-commentary from hell we’ve all been living in…

A pro-life revolution

25 June 2022 2:26 am

Set aside your opinions about abortion for a moment. Throw down the fluttering placards about “THE PRO-LIFE GENERATION” and “KEEP…

Mike Pence and the clash of the GOP titans

22 June 2022 12:42 pm

Mike Pence began his political career as “Rush Limbaugh on decaf,” a calmer and more collegial kind of conservative radio…

Joe Biden’s greatest hits tour

10 June 2022 12:33 pm

Joe Biden would never be in a hair band; a hair plugs band, maybe. Yet the president does seem to…

Welcome to the age of post-Covid nihilism

8 June 2022 8:59 pm

Washington, DC Amid the recent orgy of violence across America, it was the carjackings that finally got me. Lost amid all…

It’s only a culture war when the right does it

19 May 2022 12:23 pm

Having recently botched South African history, the New York Times is now turning its sights to Australia. Our friends Down…

What’s so ‘progressive’ about abortion?

10 May 2022 12:23 pm

From the UK Spectator this week comes a pair of essays by Douglas Murray and Melanie McDonagh praising the American abortion…

The Real Housecucks of Ohio

4 May 2022 11:42 pm

After eight months that felt like eighty years, the Ohio Republican Senate primary has at last come to a close.…

Pelosi fights, McCarthy flails

25 April 2022 11:57 am

Recently, money was extracted from the taxpayers at gunpoint to create a PBS puff piece about Nancy Pelosi. Called “Pelosi’s…

One nation under the CDC

22 April 2022 12:55 pm

For a brief moment, America was the cheering mission control room in every action movie. You know the one: the…

Elon Musk and tweeting on a volcano

19 April 2022 12:29 pm

Of all the hilarious freakouts over Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter, my personal favorite comes from journalism professor and…

It’s still Obama’s White House

7 April 2022 12:38 pm

Barack Obama returned to the White House this week, and his presence was a straight up blast from the past.…

Biden’s war: does he know what he’s doing?

2 April 2022 9:00 am

Is Biden’s approach to the war more calculating than it seems?

Old man yells at gas prices

23 March 2022 1:15 pm

President Joe Biden has lashed out at fossil fuel companies, accusing them of using high gas prices to “pad their…

When the establishment cries treason

16 March 2022 2:08 pm

Last week, former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard released a video calling for a ceasefire in areas around American-funded biolabs in…

Ukraine couldn’t save Biden’s State of the Union

2 March 2022 5:30 pm

‘We oppose authoritarianism!’ our pundits all cry, before tuning in to watch the American president thunder like a god in…

Man flu is real

21 February 2022 7:28 am

Over New Year’s, I came down with the Omicron. Or as I put it to my wife, civilization as I…

The left’s Nicene Creed

15 February 2022 3:02 pm

I live in a blue city in a blue state, meaning I can’t so much as walk to the CVS…

A working-class liberty movement

10 February 2022 2:47 pm

We begin today in the Canadian Parliament, which has its own version of prime minister’s questions. And while it isn’t…

Glenn Youngkin’s brass-knuckled conservatism

7 February 2022 2:06 pm

How is the mood in Virginia these days? It appears to be a bit litigious. Last month, seven school boards…

Get ready for a brutal Supreme Court fight

27 January 2022 5:42 am

During the recent Supreme Court arguments in the school choice case Carson v. Makin (full disclosure: my wife does paralegal work…

Joe Biden daydreams about civil rights

19 January 2022 2:34 pm

What a civil rights legend is Joseph R. Biden. You can almost picture it if you daydream hard enough: the…

The meritocrat and the aristocrat

14 January 2022 2:48 pm

What a pair are Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew — like peanut butter and petroleum jelly, like pepper and road…

The coming war with…um…Canada?

12 January 2022 12:58 am

We begin today by heading north, past Vermont, over Winterfell, above the Arctic Circle, beyond the part of the map…

Biden’s coming year of paralysis

4 January 2022 2:50 pm

The first workday of 2022 and already Washington, DC has been paralyzed by snow. That isn’t saying much, given that…