President Joe Biden has a pair of decisions to make: first whether to run for reelection in 2024 and then when to announce his choice, especially if…
My friend Mark Perkins joined the Navy right out of high school. After a few years, he decided to join the Marines and quickly found the Marine…
You may not know, and ideally would never have to know, that gasoline is different in the winter and summer. But people who maintain small engines like…
I have read my Kirk and Hayek and Buckley, in What is a Conservative?, and I have had the good fortune to know some great conservative thinkers.…
Six years before George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, Eric Garner was choked to death by New York City law enforcement. Garner repeated…
With his portly build, high-waisted pants, and square-rimmed glasses, the late Jiang Zemin effected a grandfatherly bearing. Behind his trademark spectacles, however, was a calculating politician —…
There was a time when anything served in a martini glass was labeled a “something-or-other martini,” or, even worse, a “something-tini.” I have in mind those dissolute…
Spotify has an end-of-the-year feature that allows users to display statistics on their music choices for the past 12 months. It’s called Spotify Wrapped, and it compiles…
I once tangled with an air marshal on a flight into Washington, D.C. He hit me with his gun, then we struggled over it, which thwarted his…
New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay is embarrassing her newspaper. Again. The modern Republican Party, Gay argued this week, originates from the backlash to the…
