Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, March 18, 2020. (File photo: Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Some sectors have fared better than others. The general market thrust was greatly assisted by the trillions of dollars of stimulus. Today’s rally in the market is, of course, all about the jobs

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump visit the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C., June 2, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) On Saint Patrick’s Day in 2016, United States secretary of state John Kerry acknowledged that a genocide was happening in Iraq and the surrounding region against Christians and other religious minorities.

(Lucas Jackson/Reuters) On the New York Times’ disgrace ‘Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” How quaint seems this trenchant observation by the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, one of the greatest progressive thinkers of the 20th century’s latter half. Not because of the patriarchal pronoun presumptions of the aging white

Voting bracelets sit on a table during the Democratic presidential primary election at Madero Middle School in Chicago, Ill., March 17, 2020. (Joshua Lott/Reuters) We should not delude ourselves into thinking that electing one president or another is a substitute for changing the country. The odds, they are a-changin’. On Thursday, Better Collective, which sounds

National Guard members stand guard during a protest near the White House against the death of George Floyd, June 3, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) The National Guard, not the police or the military, is best equipped to handle widespread looting and violence. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I t is not hard these days to conjure up a

A priest listens to a confession by a member of his congregation while practicing social distancing at the S.S. Sacramento church in Rome, Italy, March 26, 2020. (Remo Casilli/Reuters) Religious leaders in Madison, Wis., have written to local officials, calling its reopening policy unconstitutional and a “discriminatory restriction.” The letter asks that the City of

Protesters react after setting fire to the entrance of a police station after as a white police officer was caught on video pressing his knee into the neck of African-American man George Floyd, Minneapolis, Minn., May 28, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) The indefensible killing — captured on video — of George Floyd, following closely after the

(Pixabay) Such an expansion of the welfare state would have once kept conservatives awake at night. Amid all the momentous events that have defined the coronavirus pandemic, the decision by both the Trump administration and, in near-unanimous votes, both houses of Congress to institute a “stimulus” program — an element of which amounts to a

Police officers stand guard during a protest against the death of George Floyd, New York City, June 3, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) To secure convictions, prosecutors must prove that officer Derek Chauvin was the proximate cause of Floyd’s death and that the others assisted him in the act. It was nearly 20 years ago that my

A pedestrian walks though Times Square in New York City, March 27, 2019. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) This piece has been getting a fair bit of traction in both the United States and the U.K. It is, nevertheless, nonsense on stilts. The stilts themselves are hewn from some well-made points and perceptive observations, but the general argument

The Golden Gate Bridge and the skyline of San Francisco, Calif. (hanusst/Getty Images) The case against culture wars, the imperial presidency, and Leviathan NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n 1821, the 19th-century French intellectual Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, baron de Barante, wrote On the Communes and the Aristocracy. It does not recommend itself to an American

Former President Barack Obama speaks during an Obama Foundation event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 13, 2019. (Lim Huey Teng/Reuters) The former president ignores one of the fundamental sources of officer misconduct. Seeing President Trump’s ham-fisted response to protests and riots this week, some Americans might reasonably feel nostalgia for Barack Obama’s oratorical skill and

People take part in a protest following the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd in Boston, Mass., June 3, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) It’s still mandatory — unless you’re looting, rioting, and starting fires. Cardenas Ortiz-Sandoval’s mother, Guadalupe, died last month. Cardenas, 22, helped to plan her funeral. She was told by mortuary officials

Then-Defense Secretary James Mattis and President Donald Trump before a briefing from senior military leaders in the Cabinet Room at the White House, October 23, 2018. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Retired Marine general James Mattis, who resigned as President Trump’s Secretary of Defense in 2018, broke his silence on the administration in a statement Wednesday, saying he

Protesters gather in the Manhattan borough of New York,, June 2, 2020. (Jeenah Moon/Reuters) It bears no resemblance to reality — not in police forces, and not in America. About twice as many white people as black people are killed by police. In fact, in about 75 percent of police shootings, the decedent is not

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a lawmakers meeting to elect a speaker, in London, Britain December 17, 2019. (Jessica Taylor/Handout via Reuters) British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Tuesday that the United Kingdom is ready to offer refuge and citizenship to nearly three million Hong Kong citizens should China implement a restrictive national

Butler Library on the campus of Columbia University in New York City (Mike Segar/Reuters) Is a self-consciously conservative approach to the humanities and social sciences desirable? Prominent right-leaning scholars are skeptical. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE E arlier this year, author Avi Woolf argued that right-leaning academics ought to start crafting a conservative vision for research in

An NYPD police car burns as protesters clash with police during a march against the death of George Floyd in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 30, 2020. (Jeenah Moon/Reuters) Rioters and their enablers claim that the present disorder is justified by an epidemic of police shootings of unarmed black men. But no such epidemic exists. There is

More than 1.7 million firearms were sold in the U.S. last month, up 80 percent compared to last May. That follows a 71 percent surge in April to just under 1.8 million sold, and just under two million guns were sold in March. Some perspective: The all-time record, following the Sandy Hook massacre and President

NYPD officers detain a protester who was involved in the looting of a store in Manhattan, June 2, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) Most of the looters and rioters arrested by the NYPD over the past several days are immediately released as a direct result of New York’s new bail-reform law, New York City police chief Terrence

The United Nations logo is seen at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 23, 2019. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) In a recent letter to the United Nations, John Barsa, acting director of the U.S. Agency for International Development, asked the U.N. to remove “reproductive health” and abortion from its humanitarian plan to address the COVID-19 global

Protesters gather around after setting fire to the entrance of a police station as demonstrations continue after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn., May 28, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) I noted on Twitter last night that rioting, coming right after the virus, is a catastrophe for the cities. Regardless of whether Trump or Biden

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at an event in Wilmington, Del., March 12, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Staffers for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden announced that they have donated to a group that pays bail fees in Minneapolis as riots over the death of George Floyd consume the city. At least 13 Biden campaign staffers

The Swiss Parliament Building in Bern, Switzerland (Denis Balibouse/Reuters) Switzerland is generally a well-run place, with a healthy respect both for the preservation of capital and for the way that its referendums help ensure that Swiss democracy is genuinely bottom-up as well as top-down. But, judging by this Financial Times report, these two qualities may

According to President Trump and his most ardent supporters, he is a “disruptor” here to shake up established Washington ways. Nevertheless, in announcing that he will “designate” Antifa, the far-left radical movement, as a terrorist organization, he is pulling a page from the Swamp’s playbook. It is … Read More

According to President Trump and his most ardent supporters, he is a “disruptor” here to shake up established Washington ways. Nevertheless, in announcing that he will “designate” Antifa, the far-left radical movement, as a terrorist organization, he is pulling a page from the Swamp’s playbook. It is … Read More

The Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., January 21, 2020. (Will Dunham/Reuters) From the beginning of California’s COVID-19 shutdown in March, religious institutions were excluded from the state’s definition of “essential businesses,” including the South Bay United Pentecostal Church in Chula Vista, Calif. The church spent most of May in court fighting Governor Gavin Newsom’s imposition

New bollard-style fencing next to vehicle barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border in Santa Teresa, N.M., March 5, 2019. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) This morning, Dr. William Figlesthaler, a candidate for Congress in Florida’s 19th district, sent out an email with the subject line, “it’s time to build the wall.” (In one of Figlesthaler’s campaign videos, the candidate

A  man in a suit opens his eyes in the middle of a jungle. He doesn’t know how he got there. He is hurt but not seriously injured, though definitely disoriented. Out of nowhere, a yellow Labrador pops out of the dense foliage, then disappears back into it. The man gets up. He runs through

A  man in a suit opens his eyes in the middle of a jungle. He doesn’t know how he got there. He is hurt but not seriously injured, though definitely disoriented. Out of nowhere, a yellow Labrador pops out of the dense foliage, then disappears back into it. The man gets up. He runs through