By: Roger Kimball – thespectator.com – December 19, 2024 It operates by subverting legislative responsibility for the sake of pork, on the one hand, and partisan interdiction, on the other. In the 1870s, Gustave Flaubert assembled Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues, a humorous collection of “received ideas” and clichés then current in French society. A new version needs to be produced...

Top officials gathered in Washington suggested an openness to backing the vice president again next time.

ABC News will pay $15 million to a “presidential foundation and museum” in a settlement reached with President-elect Donald Trump in his defamation suit against the network and anchor George Stephanopoulos.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine skepticism is getting outsized attention in his bid to become Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary — but his views on agriculture and abortion are shaping up as the bigger concerns in the Republican Senate.

Radiation levels have spiked in New York amid the ongoing drone mystery – and an expert has warned Americans to “prepare for the worst” as the authorities fail to provide answers.

Some famous atheists have now adopted the term “cultural Christian” to describe themselves. What does it mean, and how is that playing out in an increasingly secular America?

Before this time of the month was hijacked by the secular progressives as “the holidays” in deference to everyone – except the ones who have a real reason for the season – it was called Christmas.

By: Jeffrey Blehar – nationalreview.com – December 11, 2024 One Democrat takes away the right lesson from Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson; another one does not. Once news that Luigi Mangione (the self-confessed assassin of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson) had been captured in a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, the takes began to roll in from hoi polloi of social media,...

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – December 9, 2024 Everyone has grievances, but no one is exempt from the rules of our constitutional order. The murder of Brian Thompson, the late CEO of UnitedHealthcare, has been met in certain quarters with two disgraceful responses — one explicitly grotesque, the other implicitly so. The explicitly grotesque response has been to...

The alleged shooter was born into a life of privilege and could’ve done anything he wanted with his life. But he chose to become a terrorist.