The juxtaposition of luxurious bacchanals with the brutality of the Colosseum. The once-mighty empire in irreversible decline. A race descended from noble founders losing control over a motley polyglot of a metropolis. Art and poetry becoming fastidiously refined and wildly un-classical. These were the themes of the fall of…
They don’t believe you can be reasoned or compromised with, and they’re telling you in writing and on camera that they’re not interested in trying. The radicals running the Democrat Party have no interest in sharing a country with you. At best, they want you impotently sidelined while they…
An old colleague I had not heard from in a long while added me to a group chat on Wednesday. The members were all people who had been in my cohort for the Claremont Institute’s Lincoln Fellowship in 2021, a mixture of media figures, analysts, and activists. Although the…
Someone I know was taken to the hospital earlier this week with chest pain. He had all the symptoms of a heart attack. A few days later, after extensive testing and much worry, he was told everything was fine and allowed to go home, Dr. Coleman writes…
There is a fundamental misconception about what is happening politically in this country, and it may be helpful to reconsider a particular assumption that is creating cognitive dissonance throughout American culture. That assumption is that Democrats are a political party. Consequently, every measure of their behavior seems unexplainable. The…
If you’ve ever wondered why American ideas travel farther and faster than American armies, the answer isn’t just Hollywood or Harvard. You can thank Melvin Lasky for that. From Berlin’s lecture halls to London’s literary circles, he perfected the art of wrapping geopolitics in glossy prose, making soft…
I have labeled Putin’s conduct of war in Ukraine a strategic blunder that has ever-widened the war and is on the verge of spiraling out of control if Trump delivers nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. The way Putin has conducted the war, now approaching four years in duration, has maximized…
It took about 90 seconds to prove that Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Senator Tammy Duckworth were lying through their teeth. Both of them rushed to call reports of anti-ICE radicals ramming and boxing in DHS vehicles “propaganda,” but within a day, Chicago’s own police superintendent confirmed that it’s…
Let’s recap what unfolded during Wednesday afternoon’s Antifa roundtable at the White House, hosted by President Trump. Several journalists shared firsthand accounts of being attacked by Antifa activists, but the real fireworks came from Seamus Bruner, Director of Research at the Government Accountability Institute, who briefed the president…
Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war David Frum, a senior editor at the liberal flagship magazine The Atlantic, had previously enjoyed a career…
