SocietyCommentary
Shakespeare’s Christmas
This Christmas is a troubled time—a season of war rather than peace, from the Black Sea to Bethlehem. America is full of political foreboding, and… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This Christmas is a troubled time—a season of war rather than peace, from the Black Sea to Bethlehem. America is full of political foreboding, and… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Equality always has been an American preoccupation, right from the words “all men are created equal” in the Declaration of Independence. Yet even that phrase… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The war between Hamas and Israeli forces everyone to recognize an uncomfortable truth: Immigration is a foreign policy issue. In Germany, as throngs of Hamas… Read More
SocietyCommentary
You don’t need a college degree to understand what’s happening in our country. Oliver Anthony, the Virginia songwriter and singer behind the viral hit “Rich… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Mark Twain said history doesn’t repeat but it rhymes. The life of Warren G. Harding rhymes with the presidential politics of our time. Harding died… Read More
SocietyCommentary
One way to win a war is to let your opponent commit suicide. Americans have a habit of thinking about China in this light. For… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Republicans can only imagine what it would feel like to win four national elections in a row—wielding executive and legislative power for more than a… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Independence Day season is a time to ask a hard question. Could the Americans of today have won the Revolutionary War—and would they even… Read More