Columnists
The disappointed Democrats
Democrats these days are the party of disappointments. They’ve had three big ones. The first was President Trump’s election. Then came the success of Trump’s economic program.…
April 16, 2019
Magazine - Life & Arts
Of blacklists and born stars
Can a star be born if she believes all babies should be allowed to be born, too? The anti-abortion biopic “Unplanned” provides a challenge to Hollywood’s supposed…
Editorials
Happy Tax Day
Tax Day is always bad because Americans are overtaxed. But this Tax Day, we can celebrate the fact that an overwhelming majority of people are being taxed…
Energy and Environment
GOP climate hawk Francis Rooney fights the ‘political winds’
NAPLES, Fla. — The leading House Republican proponent of combating climate change is drifting on a pontoon boat far away from Washington, D.C., in Rookery Bay south…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Congress takes on robocalls
The scourge of unwanted robocalls that has flooded phone lines in recent years has inspired a tough new bill with bipartisan support. On April 3, the Senate…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Leak charges poised to surge
President Trump’s first two years in office saw a fourfold increase in criminal leak referrals to the Justice Department, and experts say a spike in prosecutions is…
Magazine - Your Land
Postcard from: Fairfield, Iowa
Iowa has traditionally courted a variety of religious sects looking to break away from American society and create their own paradise among the cornfields. In the eastern…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Fear and loathing in Afghanistan
I’m troubled by recent news of increased anti-Semitism around the world. Of all the senseless hatreds, this sort, with its unfathomably evil history, is of particular concern.…
Magazine - Lead Stories
Gronk ‘vroom vrooms’ into the sunset
There was a poignant moment at the end of Super Bowl LIII when the cameras caught the NFL’s foremost frat bro waxing philosophical. “You’re a hell of…
Magazine - Your Land
Mob gets Scruton on second try
If you were told that a man had said to a magazine interviewer, “Each Chinese person is a kind of replica of the next one and that…