PoliticsCommentary

A Formidable President Storms Ahead
Some thoughts spring to mind after President Donald Trump’s 100-minute address to Congress. The first is that this 78-year-old man has amazing resilience and perseverance…. Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Some thoughts spring to mind after President Donald Trump’s 100-minute address to Congress. The first is that this 78-year-old man has amazing resilience and perseverance…. Read More
InternationalCommentary
Sooner or later, The New York Times catches on to the news. In the case of immigration policy, the news it has caught up with… Read More
InternationalCommentary
If you follow these things closely, you may have seen a clip of the chairman of the Munich Security Conference breaking down in tears, unable… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
After a flurry of activity—the president’s tariff threats and showdowns with Mexico and Canada, his expressions of interest in Greenland, the policy changes obtained by… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
“It is not enough in life that one succeed,” the droll economist John Kenneth Galbraith is supposed to have said. “Others must fail.” We’re at… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The times, they are a-changing. The balance of power in the perhaps eternal battle between the experts and the masses has been shifting starkly, even… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
New Year’s Day is a good time to take a long look backward with a cautious eye toward possible futures. My guide here is RealClearPolitics… Read More
Maybe the lesson this Christmas season is that even if turnabout is fair play, at some point, enough is enough. Start with the specious lawsuits… Read More
Why did Marc Andreessen—inventor of the first internet web browser and perhaps the prime venture capitalist in Silicon Valley today—switch from his longstanding support of… Read More