Lies beget lies. That’s one way to summarize nearly the past decade of presidential politics, as well as the potentially dismal presidential race underway. I leave to others commentary on the big media stories of the past week — the ouster of the talented and high-ratings-earning Tucker Carlson from Fox News, the ouster of the
What do you do to win an election when your candidate is universally known and unpopular with a majority of voters? That’s a question both major parties have had to face in the last few years. Both look like they’re going to face it for some time longer. One way is to get the other
Amid news that Donald Trump is about to be indicted by a hyperpartisan prosecutor and of his hysterical responses, and prompted by vagrant reading about the War of 1812 and Woodrow Wilson’s violations of civil liberties in World War I, a thought occurred to me. America seems to go crazy every 50 years or so.
Jimmy Carter, the 39th and the longest-living U.S. president, has chosen to enter hospice care at age 98. This is a good time to try to place his presidency in history. Indeed more years separate us in 2023 from Carter’s time in office than separated Carter from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s. That was not all that
How many people believe, really believe, in freedom of speech? Or, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, not just “free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate”? The answer is not as many as I supposed before reading my Washington Examiner colleague Gabe Kaminsky’s series of articles
The ordinarily fluent and unperturbed Justice Elena Kagan seemed, judging from the transcript, to be sputtering a bit in the oral argument of the Supreme Court’s case challenging the racial quotas and preferences used in admissions by the University of North Carolina. Questioning the counsel for those suing the university, she said — and I’m