The unraveling of Joe Biden: a retrospective
Looking back on the classified docudrama that brought down the Biden administration, it is still not easy to identify the exact…
How will the GOP survive without Paul Ryan?!
Psychologists and self-help gurus agree: it’s the little things that bring a smile to one’s lips and impart savor to…
Stepping out into freedom
Given the fire-hose disgorgement of revelations about the behavior of the FBI, the CIA and their infiltration of the mainstream media,…
It’s different when Biden gets caught with classified docs
So where are the FBI SWAT teams? Will they be raiding Joe Biden’s private office at the Penn Biden Center…
Why globalism is the enemy of freedom
I was recently asked to say a few words about “Globalism and Freedom” at a conference sponsored by Hillsdale College in…
The Deep State vs Donald Trump saga is not over
As I have said before, I hope that the new Congress, which begins its session in just a couple of…
The Republican march on Rome
Perhaps the greatest defeat the Roman Republic ever suffered was at the hands of Hannibal at the Battle of Cannae…
How did I get the midterms so wrong?
How wrong can you be? About as wrong as I was about the character of the midterm elections. I thought…
The FBI will face a reckoning after the midterms
It is said that towards the end his life as he sank into dementia, Maurice Ravel was tormented by the…
How the midterm polls became Democratic fan fiction
Psephologists of the world unite: you have nothing to lose but your fibs! I write toward the end of September,…
A history lesson for Donald Trump
I take a page from history. On Thursday, the Committee (you know which one) voted 9-0 to subpoena the former…
Biden declares war on half the country
Joe Biden’s speech at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall on Thursday was one of the most remarkable in living memory. By “remarkable,” I…
Liz Cheney: the self-appointed moral center of the GOP
I was hoping that I wouldn’t have to write about Liz Cheney again. After she was crushed by the Trump-endorsed Harriet…
The real motivation for the FBI raid
I write a day after the FBI, without warning, raided Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s home in Palm Beach. According to Trump, agents…
Donald Trump has enemies everywhere
I think that Michael Anton is correct that “the people who really run the United States of America have made it clear…
The great White House replacement
I like it when I can endorse the other side. It makes me feel like I’m part of the big…
We must stand up for private rights
By disposition, conservatives distrust government. They are for “limited government” and worry about the coercive power of the state intruding…
Why not Trump in 2024?
I see that my National Review friends are writing their letters to Santa a bit early. Some, like Rich Lowry’s…
Kamala Harris laughs at a war
It’s nice to be prescient. On Thursday, in a column titled “Kamala Invades Poland,” I introduced the world to “cackle…
Kamala invades Poland
You can tell that the Biden administration is getting serious. They have unleashed their ultimate weapon, cackle diplomacy. The warhead is…
Ted Cruz’s glorious about-face on January 6
Despite the best efforts of the media, the Democrats, and Liz Cheney, the Capitol protests of January 6 refuse to…
What was Ted Cruz thinking?
At least since the 2016 election, one of my favorites politicians — one of the few I could stomach at…
Who’s a vigilante anyway?
The idea that what happened at the Capitol of January 6 was an “insurrection” was always a ridiculous and malevolent…
Silence of the Jussie Smollett defenders
Some people say that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Nonsense. There is also the certainty that…
Is the Trump/Russia collusion hoax about to be exposed?
Ultimately, I suspect, John Durham will break your heart. At least, he will if you think, as I once hoped,…