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I had a quick catch-up today with Jennifer Lahl, a nurse by training, founder of the Center for Bioethics and Culture. She is a powerhouse of...
Ronald Reagan is in the news again. This week was the 45th anniversary of his signing the famous Kemp–Roth tax cut at his beloved Rancho del Cielo...
I wish Cora, Dawson, and Callan could somehow meet Noah, John, Luke, Paul, and Mary. Perhaps they have. Those would be eternal encounters of the sort...
The U.S. Navy's capital ships should not bear the names of politicians. Dead, living, or vegetative, a president or congressman should not have...
The Washington Post eventually came to its senses, but not before all the wrong people saw how it characterized the race to replace former...
In a previous post, I outlined the causes of our existing national debt, which now stands at $40 trillion. Here, we will look into the not-so-bright...
The fight between government intervention and free markets continues to rage within the Republican Party, particularly with the rise of right-wing...
It’s that time of year. A friend texts a picture of one red leaf on a maple tree, with a sad-face emoji. Your after-dinner walk is now a race with...
In a long overdue counterattack against “progressive” thought control in our colleges and universities, some schools have established programs for...
Readers, allow me to introduce you to one Gustavo Gordillo. Young Gus may be a familiar face to some of you already, seeing as how he is co-chairman...
We are not all in the same office, most of us NR writers. So Abigail and I weren’t talking about human reproduction at the water cooler earlier....
The other day, in response to the British Medical Association requiring doctors to participate in VSED (voluntary stop eating and drinking) suicides,...
In a post yesterday, I noted that recession responses contributed mightily to our now $40 trillion national debt. These included the stimulus packages...
I started a rant last week in The Lifeline: Not only do women not know about their own fertility — something I will safely generalize — the whole...
Last week, I wrote a short post opposing IVF. After receiving firm pushback in the comments, I responded to some of the most common objections in a...
New Yorkers were treated to a vivid illustration of the delusions fueling Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s push to get his city-run grocery stores up and...
A point about President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un that didn’t fit in today’s Morning Jolt: On Wednesday, Trump said: I get along with...
Remember taking the SAT or the ACT when you were in high school — the tests that colleges used to help decide if you had the academic preparation...
For most of his life, Charles Murray was a casual agnostic who assumed smart people had left religion behind. Now he’s not so sure. Murray joins...
Readers, a quick thought: Have you noticed that primary polls seem to be garbage lately? Remember Abdul El-Sayed’s double digit lead over Haley...
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of The Telegraph dedicates his most recent column to the latest Chinese long-term plan, which envisions China acting to begin...
Mykhailo Fedorov, the popular former defense minister who was dismissed from his position last month, has released a video calling for wartime...
This week marks an ignoble milestone: America’s national debt is crossing $40 trillion for the first time, months earlier than was forecast....
The “rhetoric” coming from both sides of the conflict over the Strait of Hormuz has “caused considerable confusion and doubt,” CNN’s David...
The USS George Washington is leaving its mission near Japan to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln which has been deployed to the Middle East and whose...
It was not so long ago that most Americans thought that college was for the smart kids and, well, too bad for those who weren’t college material....
Jon Ossoff took aim at Trump’s personal assistant, Natalie Harp, in a recent viral speech, suggesting that there’s something illicit about the...
Tuesday’s Florida primary results provided yet another example of how the anti-Israel fever that has swept through the Democratic Party remains a...
In my years observing American politics, I’ve had the displeasure of witnessing some genuinely mortifying debate performances. I cringed along with...
Charlie will no doubt have a more detailed take on last night's seismic political events in Florida. Jeff, workhorse that he is, already has one....
The subtitle of the revised and updated version of my book criticizing utilitarian bioethics, Culture of Death, is, "The Age of 'Do...
This will have to be brief, because the hour is late and pretty much nobody here was prepared to write much of anything about Florida’s sleepy...
All the self-confidence with which Jon Ossoff delivered a pointed barb at Donald Trump — or, more accurately, his relatively unknown aide Natalie...
Here’s the narrative: A shadowy, nefarious elite chose to open the U.S. to trade with China in 2000 and 2001, which sparked the loss of a very large...
One of the better public policy moves in recent decades has been Education Savings Accounts (ESAs), which allow parents to save in tax-free accounts...
With no comment, meaning no reported dissent, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to rehear President Trump’s appeal of the first E. Jean Carroll...
Among even proponents of generally free trade, a consensus has emerged that targeted U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods — initiated by the first Trump...
There is a stark disconnect between what the economic figures show on improving living standards and what most Americans feel. On paper, wages and...
If you look at the list of Senate cosponsors of Medicare for All, you’ll see that 17 of the 18 come from states that Kamala Harris carried in 2024....
Man bites dog? I can top that. Just sink your teeth into my headline for some real news. For the moment, I’m not talking about a story you may have...
Donald J. Trump is a vainglorious fool. That can be the only explanation for this truckling praise of North Korea at South Korea’s expense:...
Winter, 1578. An envoy rides into Arioka Castle to tell its lord that his rebellion is arithmetic, and that he has done the arithmetic wrong. Custom...
I wrote last year about the way in which Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, a Social Democrat, led her center-left party to take a tougher...
The New England Journal of Medicine still publishes objective scientific articles. But in the last decade-plus, it is just as notable for its hard...
Former Cambridge University professor Jason Arday – who was revealed over the past two weeks to have largely fabricated his life story whilst...
The nature rights movement continues to advance into respectability with woefully insufficient resistance. Too many people don't take the threat...
To follow up on this morning’s post, Luigi Mangione did plead guilty today in Manhattan federal court. The Trump Justice Department in the Southern...
On the basis of a proposal from his city council, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is supporting a bill that “would force big warehouses like...
Fox News host Will Cain asked the vice president about socialism's appeal to young people. Vance replied, in part: My warning to my fellow...
I have very little to say about Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s decision to freeze her eggs, other than to say parenthood is one of the great joys and...