Hillary Clinton speaks to supporters following the 2016 presidential election in Manhattan, November 9, 2016. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) She’ll never be president, but she’s made history nonetheless. The consensus view on the right is that Hillary Clinton was a primary reason for Donald Trump’s success in 2016. But not all conservatives agree about why that was.
To hear most of our higher-education leaders talk, you’d gather that their sole concerns are helping students and improving society. But in their recent book Cracks in the Ivory Tower, two scholars (Jason Brennan and Phil Magness) do a “public choice” analysis of our higher-ed system and show that it’s full of self-interested actions that waste resources
An antique car drives down Main Street during a July Fourth parade in Barnstable, Mass., in 2014. (Mike Segar/Reuters) There’s no prescribed way to celebrate July 4th. And that’s the best part of it. Donald Trump is recruiting some Abrams tanks and obsessing about some of the choreography for an Independence Day parade in Washington
Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the second night of the first Democratic presidential candidates debate in Miami, Fla., June 27, 2019. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Making busing an issue again is a strategic and a policy mistake by the Democrats. Senator Kamala Harris demonstrated rare skill during the debate — managing to shiv Joe Biden
A woman smokes a Juul e-cigarette. (Ronen Zvulun/Reuters) Virtue-signaling can have real-world consequences. San Francisco, not known as a city particularly interested in fighting the drug war, has just passed legislation banning the sale of e-cigarettes to consumers of any age — while leaving real cigarettes alone. The city’s board of supervisors passed the bill
DOJ wrapping up investigation; reaction and analysis from Rep. John Ratcliffe and former congressman Trey Gowdy. #Hannity #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News also produces FOX News Sunday on FOX Broadcasting
Fireworks explode over the New York City skyline during Independence Day celebrations in 2010. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters) Not much has changed in the way Americans celebrate the Fourth in the last 243 years. A bright blend of family, friends, picnics, and patriotism fills the summer air; red, white, and blue adorns every Main Street; parade floats
Sen. Cory Booker speaks during the first Democratic presidential debate in Miami, Fla., June 26, 2019. (Mike Segar/Reuters) The Democratic candidates are campaigning like mad to promise the most free stuff to voters. Senator Cory Booker has unveiled his “baby bonds” plan to give federal money to every newborn child to begin a fund that
The National Park Service has a useful list of the ways Presidents have celebrated the Fourth of July in the past. Some interesting ones (their editing is terrible, but this is copy&paste. Just assume a [sic] throughout): 1798 – President Adams is in Philadelphia where he reviews military parade with a reception later in the
Campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) A message from a young person who’s on your side Much of the debate about campus culture would have you believe that the average college student is hellbent on tearing down the patriarchy. One wakes up in the morning, wallows in grievance, and proceeds to spend
Expected Live at 6:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, July 4th in Washington, D.C. President Trump will take center stage at this year’s July 4th festivities that will include Army tanks, military flyovers and remarks by the president. #FoxNews #FoxNewsLive FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX
(Pixabay) Last year, I wrote a piece explaining why, on July Fourth, Americans should thank the Scots. This year the piece is available in audio format, complete with a Scottish accent. “As long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in
Pete Buttigieg delivers remarks on foreign policy and national security in Bloomington, Ind., June 11, 2019. (John Sommers/Reuters) Southbend, Ind. mayor Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday proposed the creation of new voluntary-service programs to combat climate change and increasing rates of mental-health issues, among other objectives. The plan, released by Buttigieg’s presidential campaign, calls for the
“We hold these truths to be self-evident….” We sometimes forget that Jefferson, even at 33, was a massively educated man. Almost everyone forgets that at the time, a proper education included a kind of formal training in mathematics and logic that hardly anyone receives today — the geometry of Euclid and the logic and rhetoric
(Pixabay) 1776—The Declaration of Independence is a stirring statement of America’s creed, but is it also a sexist and xenophobic document? Defending the Supreme Court’s increasing use of foreign law in support of its rulings on the meaning of the Constitution, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg titles a 2005 speech “‘A decent Respect to the Opinions
Detail of Washington Delivering His Inaugural Address, April 1789 (Library of Congress) The aftermath of the revolutionary story, even in brief, is rich and exciting. Editor’s Note: The following article appeared in the July 23, 1976, issue of National Review. * * * O! Ye unborn Inhabitants of America! Should this Page escape its destin’d Conflagration at
Sen. Elizabeth Warren greets supporters in Manchester, N.H., June 14, 2019. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Nearly all of them are running so hard to the left that the successful nominee will never be able to appear moderate. Presidential candidates from both parties usually sound hard-core in the primaries to appeal to their progressive or conservative bases. But
This summer we reached a milestone in the American energy industry. The United States now produces 12 million barrels of crude oil per day. This shatters the record set a year ago, which in turn shatters the U.S. production record set way back in 1970. The United States is now the world’s top energy producer.
Activists with Planned Parenthood and the Center for American Progress protest in Washington, D.C., June 28, 2017. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Writing for Mother Jones, Kevin Drum takes issue with my Corner post from earlier this week on the recent Gallup survey showing a short-term increase in Americans who describe themselves as “pro-life.” Drum notes that Gallup’s
‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ gets exclusive access to Trump-Kim meeting in North Korea. #Tucker #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News also produces FOX News Sunday on FOX Broadcasting Company and FOX News
Last time Donald Trump ran for president, he was an upstart, outsider, unlikely to win, who put some $66 million of his own into that successful unorthodox campaign. This time is different, very different. He’s an incumbent commander-in-chief with no real challengers and the Republican National Committee is fully on his side. So, it seems,
A woman receives an ultrasound (Ints Kalnins/Reuters) The American Medical Association has launched a lawsuit against North Dakota to halt the implementation of two state laws requiring abortion providers to provide additional information about the procedure to women considering it. One of the laws requires physicians to tell a mother that her abortion “will terminate the
On Sunday, Kamala Harris expressed support for new, federally mandated busing policies. “I support busing. Listen, the schools of America are as segregated, if not more segregated, today than when I was in elementary school,” Harris said. “Where states fail to do their duty to ensure equality of all … Read More
Did the Russians pay the 2020 Democratic candidates to throw the 2020 election to President Donald Trump? Watching all four hours of the first Democratic debates, it became increasingly difficult to reach any other conclusion. The candidates unanimously agreed on “Medicare for All” and that it should cover illegal aliens — or as the moderator
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during a press conference before a town-hall meeting in Queens, New York, April 27, 2019. (Jeenah Moon/Reuters) Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday released a plan to address the increasing numbers of migrants crossing the southern border, calling among other things for decriminalizing illegal border crossings. In her four-point plan, the New
GOP lawmaker calls on Trump to designate Antifa as a terror organization; Quillette editor Andy Ngo shares his story on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’ #Tucker #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News also
Yesterday, there were reports at every major news outlet saying the same thing: The citizenship question would not appear on the 2020 Census. This morning, Trump said all of those reports were fake news: The News Reports about the Department of Commerce dropping its quest to put the Citizenship Question on the Census is incorrect
Detail of Birth of Old Glory by Percy Moran (Library of Congress) Ramesh notes the speed with which the Betsy Ross flag was deemed outré: Even so, the shift of the Betsy Ross flag, from worth showcasing for the Obama inaugural planners in 2013 to unacceptable for a big company in 2019, has been very
Joe Biden speaks at an event at Iowa Wesleyan University in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, June 11, 2019. (Jordan Gale/Reuters) Earlier this week, new polls from CNN and Quinnipiac showed former vice president Joe Biden slipping from his unquestionable status as frontrunner in the Democratic presidential primary, weakened by what many consider to have been a
Long before Donald Trump became President of the United States, the Opinion section of The New York Times was already a hotbed of America-loathing (if not outright hating) leftist ideology. They just used to try and hide it a little back then. One of Trump’s greatest achievements as president thus far has been to unmask the