Alexandra had her hands full responding to other misstatements of fact that the Washington Post published about her recent article about the Democratic party’s increasing extremism on abortion, so I’ll correct the record on another point. The letter-writer claims that “no reputable doctor would abort a viable fetus, because they are forbidden to, both ethically

When I entered college less than a week after my 18th birthday, I had already been programming computers for money for almost five years. Since then, as well as studying computers, I’ve majored in about 11 areas over 7 years and 240 undergraduate hours — History, English, Business, and so on — as an undergrad

(Jonathan Drake/Reuters) Entry into medical and associated professional schools may soon depend on possessing the proper moral views as well as good grades. Say you’re a brilliant student who dreams of becoming an oncologist and saving thousands of lives from cancer. In the not too distant future, if some bioethicists have their way, you had

She’s Building Up An Appetite For Thursday One of the worst people to have emerged as a media personality based solely on hatred for President Trump is Ana Navarro. She’s my least favorite, actually. Her biggest accomplishments are hitching her star to three super-loser presidential bids (John McCain, Jon Huntsman, and Jeb Bush), and putting

(Pexels) Professor Brian Fitzpatrick’s argument for class-action suits is neither conservative nor convincing. When a fellow former law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia claims that our client, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, betrays conservative legal ideals through its unyielding opposition to abuse of class-action suits by the plaintiffs’ bar, we take it seriously. But the

The former senior director for European and Russian affairs for the Trump administration, Fiona Hill, testified last week in the House impeachment hearings. At one point, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., asked her: “Would you say that these different theories, these conspiracy theories that have been targeting you, spun in part by folks like Mr. Stone

Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-MI) asks a question as Attorney General William Barr testifies before a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, April 9, 2019. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) Over the summer, Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence fully backed the move to impeach President Trump, but the Detroit-area Democrat said over the weekend that she has since changed her mind. “I

Pro-democratic winning candidates gather outside the campus of the Polytechnic University (PolyU) in Hong Kong, China, November 25, 2019. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters) Pro-democracy forces’ stunning dominance of yesterday’s District Council elections could further weaken Chinese president Xi Jinping’s shaky grip on power. The Hong Kong pro-democracy movement achieved a stunning victory in Sunday’s district-council elections. With

I’ll Never Get That Naked Hotel Sofa Pic Out of My Head I left California to avoid things like this. Katie Hill was elected after my departure from the Golden State, and if I had never found out anything about her I would have been happy. Hill resigned from Congress so quickly after the sordid

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at the Apple Worldwide Developer conference in San Jose, Calif., June 4, 2018. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) Thomas Philippon’s misdiagnosis of rising profits justifies economic policy that would discourage risk-taking, impede growth, and gradually reduce competition. The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets, by Thomas Philippon (Harvard, 344 pp.,