Opinion

2025: A Year in Reading

T his year brought an abundance of good books, and I use the word “abundance” under advisement. After 2025, I can say with no fear of contradiction that I am fully up to speed on the topic. As a ...
A Chinese crypto kingpin, a libertarian cyber hero, and a Honduran drug lord all benefitted from Trump’s largesse this year.
The Trump administration has cited the Somali fraud case as an example of why the U.S. needs to mass deport illegal immigrants.
J ust before Christmas, Ben Sasse, who served as a United States senator from Nebraska between 2015 and 2023, announced that he has an advanced case of cancer and he's going to die soon.
One of the reasons Trump is apparently convinced that Putin wants peace is that Russian military forces have not yet bombed the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant . . . which Russian military forces ...
T he days leading up to Christmas in 1941 effectively obliterated any sentimental notions about “peace on earth” and “good will toward men.” Not even Father Christmas could evade the nightmare ...
‘I want, I want” is William Blake’s 1793 philosophical cartoon showing a child reaching the moon not via a spaceship but a ladder. T. S. Eliot said Blake’s engraving, the size of a playing card, ...
Opinion

Netflix Clings to DEI

Young white men today know not only that the world is unfair but that it is unfair for the benefit of others by design.
Mixed Vaccine Messages Threaten Trump’s Agenda and Republicans’ Electoral Outlook Bring Back Snow Days Who Is the Radical? 50 Years After the Edmund Fitzgerald, It’s Time to Fix American Shipbuilding ...
Muslim jihadists’ actions are consistent with centuries-old sharia law. I’m writing this amid the Festival of Lights and few days before our annual observance of the Nativity in the Judeo-Christian ...