A walk in the old paths
What is the future of conservatism? This is a live question as conservatives look over the long horizon and consider a future beyond the figure who has dominated politics for the last decade: Donald Trump. To be sure, the 47th president still sees much to accomplish in the years ahead, but the ideological feeding frenzy […]
Bad call by the Bulls
As a child of the ’80s and ’90s, there was not a day that went by where we didn’t think about the Chicago Bulls. We mimicked the famous starting lineup announcement, done by the legendary Ray Klay. We relived every one of Michael Jordan’s game-winning shots in our driveways. The posters hung in our rooms. Chicago […]
Can we stop rooting against America?
In a bizarre rant, left-wing commentator Chris Hayes compared Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. strikes against Iran, to the savage attack by suicide bombers who flew airplanes into buildings on 9/11. He was joined by Democratic congresswoman from Detroit, Rashida Tlaib, who used the word “they” to describe the country where she serves as an elected official […]
The promise and peril of the digital age
Eighty years ago this month, engineers at the University of Pennsylvania unveiled what is considered the world’s first electronic computer, known as the ENIAC. Not only was the ENIAC 1,000 times faster than previous machines; it was the first machine to abandon cranks and shafts and rely on vacuum tubes and the flow of electrons. In other […]
Righting historic wrongs
Fifty years ago this month, President Gerald Ford began the process of righting a historic wrong, signing an executive order that declared the internment of American citizens of Japanese descent to have been morally and constitutionally wrong: We now know what we should have known then—not only was that evacuation wrong but Japanese-Americans were and are loyal […]
More than a Hallmark holiday
That mad rush you hear as you read this column is many husbands running to the local drug store to quickly pick out a card and some flowers and chocolate for their wives. You may think that Valentine’s Day is a mere sentimental Hallmark holiday, a conspiracy for the greeting card companies and the chocolate […]
Keeping the republic
In January 1706, one of the most consequential figures in American history was born. Benjamin Franklin, the 15th child of an English immigrant father and an American mother, grew up in the city of Boston. At the age of 17, he fled to Philadelphia, an emerging and fast-growing city, to escape the increasingly unfavorable apprenticeship in his […]
The lessons from a short and successful war
On Jan. 16, 1991, President George H.W. Bush addressed the nation from the Oval Office and announced the start of war against Iraq. America’s objective was clear: to drive Saddam Hussien’s troops out of the neighboring country of Kuwait, which Iraq had invaded in August of 1990. The United States also wanted to discourage Saddam’s expansionist aggression […]
An ignominious anniversary
Fifty years ago this month, Cambodia adopted a new constitution—one that enshrined the principles of communism into law. By Marxist decree, 1976 was to be “year zero” in which Cambodia’s history was to be forgotten. It was the culmination of a 9-month revolution, led by the guerilla group, the Khmer Rouge, which in turn was […]
Ben Sasse’s Greatest Lesson
Two days before Christmas, former Nebraska Sen. and University of Florida President Ben Sasse announced he has been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. His tweet was a gut punch to anyone who knows Sasse and to the many around the nation who have admired his presence in public life. A statesman through and through, Sasse […]