By: David French – frenchpress.thedispatch.com – July 5, 2022 If you’re a politically minded person (and if you’re reading this newsletter, you probably are), the instant a tragedy happens, your mind likely races to the “big” solution. What are the policies that can solve this problem? I’m not here to condemn this impulse. We should be thinking hard and creatively about...

Even as we watch the reservoirs and lakes of the West go dry, we keep watering our lawns, soaking our golf courses, and growing water-thirsty crops.

By: The Editors – nationalreview.com – July 4, 2022 For all the pomp and circumstance of its presentation, there is something admirably humble about America’s national anthem. Britain’s anthem is cartoonish, with its repeated entreaties to “save” an already-well-secured monarch and its insistence that God is destined to “scatter” the “knavish” enemies of the crown. France’s anthem is utopian, with...

By: Kyle Smith – nationalreview.com – June 30, 2022 Their unwillingness to get serious about this surge is going to cost them dearly. To see this article in its entirety and subscribe to others like it, choose to read more. Source: The Democrats Hate Guns, Not Crime | National Review

By: Jess Bravin – wsj.com – June 30, 2022 A solid conservative majority issued several consequential rulings that reflected their originalist views of the Constitution on matters that ranged from overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling to expanding religious rights in public education and enlarging the scope of the Second Amendment. On its last day of the term,...

Modern progressives assume moral and intellectual authority. Consequently, their supposedly superior ends naturally justify almost any means necessary to achieve them.  

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – June 28, 2022 As the Left’s ability to bully American institutions into submission diminishes, its desperation is growing. The most famous scene in Peter Weir’s hit movie, The Truman Show, depicts Truman Burbank’s wife, Meryl — who, unbeknownst to him, is an actress — growing alarmed by her husband’s behavior, breaking the fourth wall...

Why the Supreme Court’s only black justice has been subjected to so much hatred.

Thanks to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, young women are confronting some basic truths about men and women that feminism has denied for the last half-century.

In the days ahead, it is essential that we do our best to reach out across the vast abortion divide in America, speaking the truth in love.