Forty-five years ago, anti-communist dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn caused a stir at Harvard with a famous commencement speech deploring the decadence of the West. The rivalry of the Cold War was not as neat as it appeared, he said. The liberal West, by making man and his desire for material satisfaction the measure of all things,…
“Masking Guidance: Fully vaccinated guests are not required to wear a mask on the White House grounds. Guests who are not fully vaccinated must wear a mask at all times and maintain at least 6 feet distance from others while on the White House grounds.” That notice, boldface in the original, appeared in advance of…
Samuel Huntington got Ukraine wrong. That’s what a casual reader of “The Clash of Civilizations?”—published in Foreign Affairs 30 years ago this summer—might think. Huntington was at the peak of his career as a political science professor and director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University when he wrote, “the…
The presumption of “safe until proven otherwise,” which governs the way we license new chemicals and new foods, is one that has caused and is causing immense damage until it is overturned. If I were to invoke the specter of an “evil corporation,” which would you think of first? Perhaps it would be the corporation…
William Barr, the attorney general who appointed John Durham to investigate the Russian collusion hoax targeting Donald Trump, clarified that neither President Obama nor Vice President Biden were involved in Durham’s inquiry. In his memoir One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General, Barr praised Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein,…
Back in 1986, members of the Reagan cabinet said they were willing to take drug tests to set an example for federal workers and the public. That caught the attention of Jay Leno, who recommended IQ tests instead. Better still, Wayne Allyn Root now contends, would be lie detector tests, an idea that “threatens the…
The Biden Administration has once again demonstrated its inability to protect America’s digital infrastructure, leaving critical systems vulnerable to foreign adversaries. While much of the media focused on distractions like former President Trump’s legal troubles and Hunter Biden’s plea deal, a growing cyber threat has gone unaddressed. The administration’s neglect has allowed malicious actors to…
In the wake of 25 years of Chinese naval expansion and the relative silence of U.S. flag officers, it is time for them to speak up. In 1949, as Americans began to recognize the peace they had fought for in World War II was being threatened by Stalin and the Communist Party of the Soviet…
A man enjoying the fruits of modernity is every bit as subject to the same disasters and calamities as his ancestors. But do we know it? When the Titanic sank, G.K. Chesterton wrote an essay called “The Great Shipwreck As An Analogy.” Now that this same ship has unexpectedly become the site of another tragedy…
Record numbers of violent fugitives are confirmed to be among the surge of aliens entering the United States illegally. The Biden Administration steadfastly refuses to use existing federal programs funded by American taxpayers to track aliens and ensure compliance with mandatory immigration proceedings. Something must change. Last month, U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement highlighted their…