Bishop Butler once observed that probability is “the very guide of life.” This is true. It follows that possibility is cheap,…

Elon Musk has often commented that “if Trump is NOT elected, this will be the last election.” He often adds that, “far…

Who has better lawyers: Donald Trump or the Syndicate? The fate of the election, and hence the fate of the country, may well come down to the answer to that question. By “the Syndicate” (what I sometimes call “the Committee”),…

No one with an open mind — you can even scratch the adjective — no sentient sapiens period can have…

When you look back on the 2024 presidential election and try to understand why it was that Kamala Harris lost,…

One of the entertainments that every election season brings revolves around polling. Every season seems to bring more and more…

What happens when you continually demonize someone as “Hitler,” insist that he is “a dictator” and “a threat to democracy?”…

Sydney Smith (1771-1845), the great English wit and Anglican divine, once said that he never read a book before reviewing…

Regular readers will recall my fondness for Lord Falkland’s observation that “when it is not necessary to change, it is…

The main takeaway from the ABC News ambus— er, presidential debate last night? That someone should sue the network for…

Unless you are drinking from the cistern that Bill Kristol and his herd top off daily, you will have been…

I write at the end of July, just on the threshold of the “silly season,” “the months of August and…

OK, it’s August 6, the anniversary of the detonation of Little Boy over the city of Hiroshima in 1945. That marked…

The question going into Joe Biden’s address to the national from the Oval Office tonight was: will he, having announced…

The events of the last few days have made incontrovertible something that candid observers have known for some time now:…

It’s odd how things that have been widely predicted and even widely anticipated can nevertheless occur with an emotional thunderclap. I…

Dr. Johnson once remarked that the prospect of hanging in a fortnight concentrates the mind. So, apparently, does being shot. At…

There are some cramped, unimaginative people who — I have been told — maintain that writing about wine is a…

If you squint, I reckon you could see two bloody corpses that the Secret Service turned over on that roof…

Last week at a fundraiser, Joe Biden said that it was time to get beyond his poor performance at his…

In 1927, Sigmund Freud published a book about religion called Die Zukunft einer Illusion (The Future of an Illusion). As a contribution to…

Yesterday, reviewing last week’s Supreme Court decisions, I noted that the court would probably issue its final opinion of the season, on…

All is unfolding as I have foreseen. Yesterday, reviewing last week’s Supreme Court decisions and indulging in a little well-earned Schadenfreude…

Some of my long-time readers will know that for many years past I have spent a few days most summers…

“What happens now?” The question flooded my inbox and what used to be called the Twittersphere. Why? Because shortly after…