Joe Sobran was one of my greatest friends, and I often thought about him over this past week, because February 23 was the anniversary of his death. He was a man of courage and of the utmost integrity. He began writing about politics for National Review, but he broke with…
We tend to think of housing becoming unaffordable as a matter of land prices, zoning and the cost of 2X4s, but it’s fundamentally a matter of values. Subscriber John summarized this in an insightful comment on Substack: “For me, this issue is a reflection of the values of our culture.1.
Why is it that American liberal Democrats and Europeans are so disturbed that Trump is moving the United States toward normal relations with Russia instead of maintaining a hostile approach to Russia based on proxy wars, sanctions, and endless propaganda? We know why the think tanks and university faculties supported…
Is the rest of the world entitled to US money and US security? This is the question that’s never asked when the establishment media rages about Donald Trump’s opposition to continue the status quo in Ukraine. Consider for a moment the situation from the perspective of friends (allies). Imagine…
Volodymyr Zelensky flew to Great Britain on Saturday morning after he was kicked out of the White House for disrespecting the American people and President Trump on Friday. Good riddance! What was supposed to be a simple, public signing ceremony between the United States and Ukraine turned into a…
The best way to understand Trump is also the simplest: he’s a businessman. From that perspective, little of what he’s doing is as inexplicable or surprising as many make it out to be. The inexplicability arises from general ignorance of business. Most Americans have little knowledge or understanding of…
For most of his first term, President Donald Trump was a relatively lonely figure on the world stage. Establishment figures considered him vulgar, and his unabashed nationalism found few allies among the political bien pensant of the day. In Europe particularly, things were more placid than they are now;…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered an additional 2,500 to 3,000 active-duty troops to the southern U.S. border, including soldiers from a motorized brigade equipped with 20-ton armored Stryker combat vehicles, defense officials familiar with the effort said. The defense secretary approved the orders Friday, the officials said, speaking…
I have never been much for schadenfreude: It is always best to occupy one’s mind with worthier matters. But I cave to temptation as Volodymyr Zelensky, the puffed-up buffoon who has paraded flamboyantly across the world stage as a hero these past half-dozen years, is publicly cut to…
It’s been just over two weeks since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the helm at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and already some companies are adopting policy recommendations aligned with the MAHA agenda. In what might be the biggest shift yet, the CEO of Chicago-based Mondelez…
