If you don’t want people to think you believe something, maybe don’t chant it in the streets?

By: Richard B. McKenzie – wsj.com – June 27, 2023 Longer life spans are an underappreciated cause of the increase in wealth concentration. Wealth in America over the past several decades has increasingly become concentrated among the top 1%. As of 2021, the wealthiest 10% controlled nearly 70% of total wealth—up from 63% in 1989. The wealth of the bottom half...

June has been set aside to promote awareness of a major issue facing a demographic that is struggling and minimally supported. No, I’m not talking about Pride. I’m talking about PTSD, which is especially acute among veterans, military service members, and first responders, and which is only part of the greater mental health crisis that our nation is facing.

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – June 27, 2023 As we hurtle toward a resolution of the matter, I am struggling to intuit what the principled case could be in favor of the Supreme Court’s failing to strike down affirmative action this time. It seems to me that, irrespective of one’s preferred judicial philosophy, the logic leads inexorably...

For nearly two and a half centuries, the United States justice system has provided a legal framework for the most prosperous and successful society the planet has ever seen.

By: Madeleine Kearns – nationalreview.com – June 25, 2023 Human history, sadly, is littered with examples of worst-case scenarios come to life. On April 10, 1912, the passengers and crew of the Titanic set out on their maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York. Five days later, the ship collided with an iceberg roughly 370 miles off the coast...

“I’m not the deciding official.” Those five words, allegedly from Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, shocked IRS and FBI investigators in a meeting on October 22, 2022.

Conservative or not, Christians reject what Carl Trueman called expressive individualism — the idea that the self can bend even physical reality into its image.

If you don’t use a muscle for a while it will atrophy to the point of uselessness. The same goes for the brain, which is why it’s important to engage in mentally challenging activities every now and then.

After a speech in Romania last week, I was asked a question by a young member of the audience that, remarkably, I don’t remember ever having been asked: What is leftism?