Editorials
Assault on open speech is an attack on America
There are two sides in the defining fight ripping America apart, and they aren’t Republicans and Democrats. The fight is between those who believe that open speech…
June 16, 2020
Columnists
Who are you going to recall? Ghostbusters, busted
BUTLER, Pennsylvania — Last Monday was supposed to be a celebration, a coming together across the ages and across the country to mark the day in 1984…
Beltway Confidential
In Southern cities, monumental change
In Birmingham, in Lexington, in Alexandria, they’re coming down. Monuments memorializing the Civil War and other parts of our racial history are coming down in various states…
Magazine - Your Land
The cancellations will continue until morale improves
Americans like to refer to the “marketplace of ideas,” a hypothetical place where we as a nation agree to disagree. But that marketplace hasn’t existed for quite…
Magazine - Your Land
Let’s play some hoops
Tensions are high in America’s cities, but one Philadelphia teenager has decided to look past the strife and help her city find common ground. And all she…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Police’
The root of the word “republic” is the Latin phrase “res publica,” or “public thing.” It’s another word for “commonwealth,” the thing people all own and have…
Business
Tax increases and entitlement reform required to address skyrocketing debt
There’s a saying in Washington when a circumstance arises that is so dire that fixing it requires every single person to pitch in and help: “Everybody’s ox…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Clubbing in the new Gilded Age
Capitalism, in the general sense, is unthinkable apart from democracy: There can be no free market without free agents who are able to access it. And yet,…
Crime
‘Defund the police’ and other radical lies
More likely than not, you know somebody who is open to the idea of defunding the police, the latest far-left policy proposal that increasingly seems to wield…
Magazine - Obituary
Shigeru Yokota, 1932-2020
So much about the People’s Republic of Korea is so peculiar — the massed spectacles, the synchronized deference to the ruling class, the hypnotically surreal Kim Jong…