Old Glory, new anger
America’s mood is somewhere between despondency and revolt
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Friday
Thursday
Critical father theory
Black and white America alike suffer from the failure of functional older men to socialize younger men
Anti-anti-crime policies are ruining American cities
Let’s get the myths out of the way: COVID wasn’t the main driver behind the recent crime surge
My role in our demographic disaster
Children and families are the hottest topics in politics — and I can’t help but feel left out
Let’s make it a Hot Bartender Summer
The summer gleams with potential — and once again the epithets have started to fly
My country, right or left
Today, the Democratic version of patriotism seems to be an endless stream of resentment and self-loathing
Wednesday
Iran’s president is a mass murderer
Ebrahim Raisi was — and remains — Iran’s hanging judge
Tuesday
Lori Lightfoot’s inner Republican
Chicago is turning into New York, only with worse weather
The FBI has lost the plot
Who gave the Feds access to Twitter?
Monday
How the US military got rich from Afghanistan
Trillions of dollars have flowed through the Pentagon’s war budgets in the last two decades
Friday
Give peace a chance
If America is to remain a superpower, the age of elective wars must end
Wednesday
Is J.D. Vance the right man for the right?
The author’s prospective Senate bid is interesting as more than just a test of Trumpism without Trump
Time to end the MAGA madness
The Republicans need to separate the MAGA from the message
Why the West is best
Western civilization may not be perfect, we haven’t seen anything like it anywhere else in human history
A party and a half
The current political disposition of the United States is at most a one-and-a-half party system
Is New York coming back?
P.J. Clarke’s is open again, the masks are off, the brews are cold, the regulars are back
What happens when your currency collapses?
The Lebanese are living through a terrible economic experiment
How to fight with your family
We should aspire to a better quality of family argument
When do vaccine incentives become coercive?
The technocrats are nudging us into a dystopia
Tuesday
The DeSantis doctrine
DeSantis is perfectly positioned to become the next Republican leader — if Trump steps aside
