This assassination attempt feels different. Following the previous attempts on the president’s life, progressives briefly acknowledged that their false and… Read Article →

Chicago politics have taken root in Vatican City. Pope Leo XIV may be a man of the cloth, but he… Read Article →

Barack Obama pinpointed a central conflict in American politics back in 2004 while talking with a group of Google executives,… Read Article →

I understand why FCC Chair Brendan Carr is threatening the legacy media. Coverage of the Iran conflict, as with most every… Read Article →

Will President Trump fall prey to the “Pottery Barn Doctrine”? Articulated by Secretary of State Colin Powell in the run-up… Read Article →

This column first ran in the News & Observer of Raleigh on November 8, 1998. The coarsening and dumbing down… Read Article →

After the last key member of the Grateful Dead, guitarist Bob Weir, died last week at the age of 78,… Read Article →

For too many Decembers, I told myself while decorating our tree that I really ought to re-read the gospels –… Read Article →

So sad to hear that Bob Weir has, as he would put it, checked-out. I’ve been a Deadhead since I… Read Article →

Helen Andrews has been receiving wide, and deserved, attention for her recent essay “The Great Feminization.” Here’s my 2004 column… Read Article →