On the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters) How dumb do you have to be to allow your house to be stolen from you? So dumb you’d almost have to be a woke Harvard Law professor, in this case one who was punished for trying to be kind to a lesbian and

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign was just disrupted by campaign workers demanding the same $15 per hour Sanders demands government force all employers to pay. It serves him right. Years ago, the activist group ACORN faced the same problem. After fighting for a higher minimum wage, they tried to convince a judge they should be

Cesar Sayoc appears in a federal court in Miami, Fla., October 29, 2018. (Daniel Pontet/Reuters) Cesar Sayoc is the maniac who pleaded guilty in March to mailing improvised explosive devices to 13 people. According to the Washington Post, Sayoc’s lawyers have filed a sentencing memo citing one of the sources of his radicalization: Fox News.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, April 11, 2018. (Leah Millis/Reuters) The Department of Justice is opening a sweeping anti-trust review to determine whether the country’s leading technology firms are stifling competition in violation of federal law, it announced Tuesday. “Without the discipline of meaningful market-based competition, digital platforms

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. — Last week, one month before she was set to give birth to her second child, Lara Trump came here to kick off the 2020 Women for Trump coalition, planting a flag, or at least an olive branch, in some of the least Trump-friendly terrain in the Keystone State: suburban Philadelphia.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson addresses a special session of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in Hague, Netherlands June 26, 2018. (Yves Herman/Reuters) Making the click-through worthwhile: Boris Johnson takes the helm over in the United Kingdom, our friends across the pond are attempting to face a dangerous world with a

Last week, at the invitation of Sen. Ted Cruz, I spoke to the Senate Judiciary Committee about Google’s having placed more than 60 Prager University videos on its restricted list. Any family that filters out pornography and violence cannot see those particular videos on YouTube (which is owned by Google); nor can any school or

Sen. Al Franken departs the Capitol with wife Franni after announcing his resignation, December 7, 2017. (Yuri Gipas/Reuters) Over at The New Yorker, Jane Mayer has a lengthy piece in defense of Al Franken, the former Minnesota senator who resigned in disgrace last year after a photo surfaced of him appearing to grope radio host

Gentle readers, things have reached a pretty pass in Los Angeles, where, sad to say, the two most influential political constituencies are now the homeless and illegal immigrants. Everyone else, all you citizens and legal immigrants, all you people paying your mortgages or your rent, and most important all you people paying your taxes and keeping

I am pleased and a little amused that my new book, The Smallest Minority, which will be published tomorrow, is currently the No. 1 new release in the “Democracy” category at Amazon. And it is a book that is about democracy—but it is not a celebration of it. A snippet: Democracy, properly understood and properly

Sather Tower rises above the University of California at Berkeley campus. (Noah Berger / Reuters) I’d like to quote from a New York Times report on Friday, and then from an essay I have on the homepage today. I’m interested in the words “liberal” and “conservative,” particularly. Here’s the Times: BERKELEY, Calif. — The city

President Donald Trump in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in 2017 (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) But that attitude may mean they’ll be burned again. About every other year, I make it a point to stop by Netroots Nation, the annual gathering of thousands of progressive activists, to take the temperature of the American Left. One

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) at a rally in Washington, D.C., April 30, 2019 The episode is a reminder that presidential words matter. ‘Send her back!” they chanted, meaning Representative Ilhan Omar, the Somalia-born Jew-hating weirdo elected to Congress by the ghastly fruitcakes who run things in Minneapolis. President Donald J. Trump, elected president by

Mariano Rivera is the greatest closer in baseball history and he is being inducted into the Hall of Fame this weekend after being the first player ever unanimously selected. He is one of those rare modern sports stars who almost no one has anything bad to say about. Enter Daily Beast writer Robert Silverman, who

Former Planned Parenthood president Dr. Leana Wen (James Lawler Duggan/Reuters/File Photo) Does Leana Wen’s Planned Parenthood departure signal new hope for real choices for women? This past week saw the news that Planned Parenthood’s first medical-doctor president, Leana Wen, was out of a job, less than nine months in, shortly after suffering a miscarriage. The

Depiction of the storming of the Tuileries Palace on August 10, 1792 ( Jean Duplessis-Bertaux ) The most memorable critic of ‘Enlightenment’ rationalism was also a visionary moralist. ‘If we act only for ourselves, to neglect the study of history is not prudent,” that very profound and virtuous man Samuel Johnson wrote; “if we are

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, 2018. (Ronen Zvulun/Reuters) He persisted. On July 20, Benjamin Netanyahu becomes Israel’s longest-serving prime minister. His first tenure lasted from 1996 to 1999. This second stint began in 2009. Bibi has won five elections since. The most recent victory, in

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin salutes the American flag on the surface of the moon, July 20, 1969. (NASA) It was a Cold War victory at a moment when the country needed one. In an Oval Office meeting a few days after Soviet Russia launched Sputnik in October 1957, two points emerged. Eisenhower’s deputy defense

On June 13, during a nasty storm, a group of Chinese New Yorkers gathered in front of the gates of Gracie Mansion, the New York mayor’s residence on the Upper East Side, to protest. Inside, Mayor Bill de Blasio was meeting with two dozen or so representatives of the Asian-American community to discuss his …

Fifty years ago today, more than half a billion people watched Neil Armstrong become the first human to set foot on another celestial body. Necessary and impressive though they are, no robotic explorer could ever generate so much attention. We want to go. People yearn to explore space, if not ourselves personally, then at least vicariously through our astronaut

An American flag flies at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 20, 2019. (Al Drago/Reuters) Large majorities of Democrats and Republicans agree that inflammatory political rhetoric could inspire acts of violence, according to a new poll published by the Pew Research Center. 91 percent of Democrats and voters who lean Democratic say that aggressive or

Detail of an 18th-century engraving of the Bill of Rights being presented to William III and Mary II following the Glorious Revolution. (via Wikimedia) The complexity and bloodiness of liberalism’s roots don’t make it quite so condemnable as its critics imagine. My colleague Declan Leary raises some interesting points in his attempt to cast the

In one sense, the Commie Quad Squad (CQS) has done us all a favor by flushing out the extremism of the Democratic Party for conspicuous public display. House Leader Nancy Pelosi is quaking in her boots, realizing that it is getting increasingly difficult to hide her party’s radicalism from American voters, many of whom still

Senator Kamala Harris (D, Calif.) at the North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) 2019 legislative conference in Washington, D.C., April 10, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris made a familiar promise Wednesday about Medicare for All, assuring voters that “you can keep your doctor” under her plan. “People think, ‘Well, maybe is this

De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Do not speak ill of the dead. While that proposition surely must expire at some point, it strikes me as good advice to follow in the immediate aftermath of someone’s death. So with that in mind, I’d like to praise Justice John Paul Stevens’s opinion in 1978 in Regents of

In May, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his candidacy for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Extremely unpopular in his own state and polling at zero, de Blasio had the distinction of being told not to run, by his own constituents. Last week, hedge fund billionaire and climate change activist Tom Steyer announced his

People at the March for Reproductive Freedom protest against the state’s new abortion law in Montgomery, Ala., May 19, 2019. (Michael Spooneybarger/Reuters) Abortion for anyone, anytime, anywhere — and you’ll pay for it. In 114 pages, over 70 groups recently laid out a legislative agenda in their “Blueprint for Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights and

Poor Donald Trump Jr. He retweeted a post by a black man named Ali Alexander questioning whether Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., whose father is from Jamaica and mother is from India, is an “American black.” Alexander’s tweet reads: “Kamala Harris is *not* an American Black. She is half Indian and half Jamaican. I’m so sick

A medic escorts a 39-year-old woman to an ambulance after she was revived from an opioid overdose in Salem, Mass., August 2017. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Given government’s pattern of hurting when it tries to help, skepticism of even its well-intentioned efforts is in order. Earlier this week, J. D. Vance — a person I admire greatly,

Did you know that it’s possible to reduce the cost of welfare and other anti-poverty programs without kicking a single person off of those programs? And did you know that efforts at government efficiency started under the Obama administration? You may find this shocking. But Hell hasn’t frozen over. You’ve merely fallen prey to following