Trump’s Greenland-lust in particular has been called a return to a "new Monroe Doctrine” by various commentators. It is in ...

Despite domestic and international opposition, the president has consolidated his hold over the socialist state.

The landscape, the food we eat—this whole country is rotten.” And so it goes until the very end, when Corbet unveils his final exhibit: At the first Venice Biennale, Tóth’s niece reveals in a speech ...

The Law Of Merited Impossibility is an epistemological construct governing the paradoxical way overclass opinion makers frame the discourse about the clash between religious liberty and gay civil ...

You can’t make this up. Nor would you want to: A&E has already suspended Robertson, but Reverend Jackson, his Rainbow PUSH Coalition and GLAAD are demanding to meet with network execs, along ...

Peter K. sends along the video clip above, in which Mississippi writer John Grisham reads Judge Soggy Sweat’s famous Whiskey Speech. Grisham was once a law clerk for the great Judge Sweat, whose ...

Just two years ago, conservatives were in a triumphalist mood. George W. Bush’s supporters trumpeted him as the man who had won more popular votes for president than anyone else in the history ...

Trump is off to a good start politically; will he be able to maintain it? “You have proven yourself to be one of the best ...

I am a sucker for decline-and-fall narratives, mostly, I think, because I am endlessly fascinated by how things that seemed permanent and invincible lose those qualities — and, specifically, the ...

Rod Dreher links to this dyspeptic piece by Joel Kotkin about the economic and political failure of California and calls out identity politics as a driver of this failure: I thought Thomas Frank ...

After Shakespeare, Jane Austen is the most widely recognized literary figure today, and in the past thirty years, there has been a seemingly endless stream of TV adaptations, films, books, and ...

Ross Douthat’s voice is one of the most nuanced and intelligent in public life today. He is unusual, too, as an orthodox Roman Catholic writing for a mainstream media outlet; there aren’t many ...