A key ingredient for a healthy democracy is an independent and (to the extent possible) an apolitical judiciary. Yet recent polls show public trust in the judicial branch of the federal government reaching its lowest point in decades.

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – October 25, 2022 Climate activists have found a new target — the greatest masterpieces in the history of Western art. Heretofore, no one thought that Claude Monet’s Haystacks — a sublime series studying the changes in light and color on haystacks in a field — or Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers — a painting that...

Most people probably think of homelessness as being a blue big city problem, but that’s not entirely true.

A balanced focus group on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday morning surely didn’t go quite as producers expected when the Democrat and the independent voter both found themselves agreeing with the Republican on key issues, including “woke culture” in schools.

By: John Dove – dailywire.com – October 19, 2022 In many parts of the nation, the blight of roadside tent cities has become an acceptable part of the deteriorating landscape of our great country. Most of these encampments have sprouted in or near crowded cities, where liberal Democrats have ruled for decades. Regardless of the reason these encampments exist, their...

By: David French – thedispatch.com – October 4, 2022 I want to write about cruelty and slander and how those dark sins are wielded as weapons of political and cultural warfare in the worst corners of the online right. While politics has never been a gentle pursuit, the advent of Trumpism and the Trumpist ethos has spawned a host of...

By: David French – thedispatch.com – October 10, 2022 It is somehow fitting that the great cultural confrontation of the moment is between George R.R. Martin and J.R.R. Tolkien. Within weeks of each other, two of the most expensive television series of all time debuted on competing networks. HBO is broadcasting House of the Dragon, a Game of Thronesprequel. Amazon...

Boston University scientists have reportedly created a lethal new COVID strain by combining Omicron and the original Wuhan strain in a laboratory.

Jerry Newcombe recalls the virtue-signalers who confronted Jesus.  

In just the last few weeks, Liz Truss, Britain’s new prime minister, has been denounced by critics as a “fascist.” So has Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s newly elected prime minister.