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The man who made conservatism fun

A PBS documentary about William F. Buckley Jr. conveys both his intellectual force and his joyful charisma.

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Happy about your IRS refund? Don’t be.

How tax withholding turned us into geese who can be plucked without squealing.

16.04.2024 5

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Defying the Supreme Court on student loans, Biden sets a dangerous precedent

It is hard to overstate how radical it is for a president to behave in this way.

14.04.2024 7

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Russia’s reported use of chemical weapons in Ukraine is another ‘red line’

Obama failed to act when Syria deployed poison gas. Biden must not make the same error.

10.04.2024 20

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Diversity, yes. Diversity statements, no.

Instead of diversity, DEI policies promote a rigid ideological uniformity.

09.04.2024 7

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Science says race isn’t real. How long will the US Census keep pretending otherwise?

The federal government is making an arbitrary, nonsensical, and divisive system even more so.

07.04.2024 10

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Joseph Lieberman, mensch

The four-term senator from Connecticut and VP nominee understood that there are times when party loyalty asks too much.

03.04.2024 10

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(Not) in the path of totality

In the Boston area, where I live, about 95 percent of the sun will be blocked by the moon during the solar eclipse that will cross North America next...

02.04.2024 5

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The border needs fixing, but not because migrants are dangerous

Most immigrants, authorized and unauthorized alike, are more law-abiding than native-born Americans.

31.03.2024 10

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What The Economist gets right about Israel

On the cover of the current issue of The Economist is an Israeli flag, covered in grime, being whipped by a sandstorm in a deserted land. Above it, in...

27.03.2024 20

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The green giant

Norman Borlaug, who was born on a farm in Iowa 110 years ago this week, is reckoned to have saved more lives than any man in human history —...

27.03.2024 5

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The phony feeding frenzies over ‘bloodbath’ and ‘hamstringing’

Ripping words out of context, prominent voices on the left and right alike keep pouring fuel on our incendiary civic discourse.

24.03.2024 10

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Bernie Sanders’s foreign policy ‘revolution’ is a string of leftist clichés

The Vermont senator looks at America’s global record and sees mostly failure and disgrace.

20.03.2024 6

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The slashing of Balfour’s portrait

A member of Palestine Action destroyed a portrait of Arthur James Balfour at Trinity College in the U.K. — an act the anti-Israel group defended on...

19.03.2024 9

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The Wendy’s beef was a nothingburger

The flap over Wendy's plan to test ‘dynamic pricing’ was a nothingburger.

17.03.2024 8

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Only Haitians can fix Haiti

After a century of failed foreign interventions, Haitians must be told that no one is coming to rescue them.

13.03.2024 7

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How to ‘feel better’ about Ukraine (according to John Kerry)

I have followed John Kerry’s career for 40 years, but I still cringe at things that come out of his mouth.

12.03.2024 2

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There was nothing heroic about Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation

Suicide is a tragedy, whatever the reason, yet leftists praised Bushnell as a great moral exemplar.

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Navalny is gone, but the ‘virus of freedom’ is spreading

Like all brave dissidents, his courage imbues others with the courage to speak truth to power.

06.03.2024 7

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Meet one of Cuba’s greatest heroes

Cuba’s indomitable heroine is a recipient of this year's International Women of Courage Award.

05.03.2024 4

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Today’s voters would be wise to heed the critics of ‘Old Tippecanoe’

No one as old as William Henry Harrison had ever run for president. Even his supporters knew that was a problem.

18.02.2024 9

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Seiji Ozawa’s love for America

Ozawa’s passion for American baseball was a subset of his affection for the United States.

14.02.2024 6

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The seventh-grader and the First Amendment

Liam Morrison’s school said he couldn’t wear a "two-genders" T-shirt. The Constitution says he can.

13.02.2024 4

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I was a young Republican. Now I want nothing to do with either party.

How much disillusionment can our political system tolerate before it cracks up?

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Who loves you, Xi Jinping?

It is only one of the many contrasts presented by the Republican presidential contest, but it is particularly acute. Haley tells the world she would...

07.02.2024 10

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At Columbia Law, a club formed to combat antisemitism gets shot down

The only student group rejected this year was one organized to oppose anti-Jewish bigotry.

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Big Brother to motorists: No smiling

To the bureaucratic blob in Washington, allowing a measure of fun to intrude on highway driving would be anathema.

31.01.2024 7

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Give Newton’s teachers an ultimatum: Return to work or forfeit your jobs

It is strictly illegal for public employees to strike. Why isn’t the law being enforced?

30.01.2024 2

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The swastika stands for evil and mass murder. So does the hammer and sickle.

Communism rarely evokes the instinctive loathing that Nazism does. Why?

28.01.2024 10

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America’s elites live in a world of their own

The real "1 percent" aren’t the superrich but those with influence, access, and a graduate degree.

24.01.2024 20

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A discount for the right skin color

There is nothing "inclusive" about penalizing or rewarding people on the basis of their race and gender.

24.01.2024 10

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A pandemic mea culpa from Francis Collins

A key figure in the government’s COVID-19 response admits that he was willfully blind.

21.01.2024 40

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The safest way to travel

Airline travel isn't nearly as comfortable, pleasant, roomy, and civilized as it once was. But it is a lot safer.

17.01.2024 10

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The answer Biden should have given on Taiwan

The chief threat to stability in Asia today is not Taiwanese independence but Chinese belligerence. The president should have said so.

17.01.2024 7

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CAIR, a self-described champion of civil rights, lets the mask slip — again

The Council on American-Islamic Relations has been linked to Islamist extremists.

14.01.2024 10

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Donald Trump, man of — faith?

In a new poll commissioned by the Deseret News, an astonishing 64 percent of Republicans surveyed said that Trump is a “person of faith.”

10.01.2024 10

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Beware any candidate who values loyalty above all else

Like LBJ and Nixon, Donald Trump craved blind fealty from his aides. That is one reason his presidency was riddled with dishonor.

10.01.2024 10

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The Endangered Species Act hasn’t restored endangered species

In the half-century since the law was enacted, only 3 percent of the animals and plants listed as endangered have recovered.

03.01.2024 9

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The wonderful life of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’

In Frank Capra’s beloved film, numerous characters, and even a house, get a second chance.

24.12.2023 20

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Why is antisemitism on the rise among Gen Z?

In a new survey, two-thirds of young adults describe Jews as "oppressors."

20.12.2023 7

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Presidential debates weren’t always freak shows

America's presidential debates, both during the primary campaign and before the general election, have become embarrassing farces.

20.12.2023 7

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No time to go wobbly on Ukraine

With or without a deal on border policy, it is in America’s manifest interest to stand with Ukrainians in their fight to beat back Russia.

15.12.2023 4

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The Boston Tea Party was a crime

Opposition to British policy was justified. Destroying 342 crates of tea worth nearly $2 million in today’s money wasn’t.

14.12.2023 7

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Waiting for health care in Canada

For reasons I have never been able to understand, Canadians express an abnormal pride in their nation’s single-payer health care system.

13.12.2023 5

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What Hamas can learn from Hanukkah

However genocidal and powerful their enemies, the Jews and the Jewish faith have endured.

08.12.2023 30

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In post-Dobbs America, abortion is up

The undoing of Roe v. Wade did not undo the broad availability of abortion in America. And in states where abortion has been banned, more women are...

06.12.2023 4

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Brookline’s phased cigarette ban is unwise, irrational, and deeply patronizing

The ordinance bans sales of tobacco or vapes to anyone born after 1999 — forever.

03.12.2023 10

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Chester Darling, RIP

Chet Darling was not only a happy warrior but a principled one.

29.11.2023 5

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The inescapable conundrum of anonymous speech

Unsigned comments on social media can be vile but a law banning them would be far worse.

29.11.2023 5

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Look who’s backing DiZoglio’s ballot campaign

The auditor has marshaled Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, Donald Trump fans and Bernie Sanders fans into a force for reform on...

25.11.2023 10

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