Keep the Senate Republican

Promises, Promises

There is much in Carson Holloway’s case for reelecting Trump with which to agree. But he closes on a note that I find baffling whenever I hear...

Everything’s Bigger in Texas, Including the Turnout This Year

More than 9 million Texans cast their ballots early by Thursday, surpassing the total number of ballots cast during the entire 2016 presidential...

Criminal Justice Programs Embrace ‘Wokeness’

Academics everywhere have been rushing to make their schools more “woke” following the death of George Floyd. Supposedly, we must turn our...

Michelle Goldberg’s Autocracy

I suspect that Michelle Goldberg’s understanding of autocracy is different than the rest of ours. For the New York Times, she writes that if Joe...

Horrors in Hillsdale

In the Hillsdale Collegian, the student newspaper of Hillsdale College (which I attended), National Review’s John Miller — who directs the...

Some Answers for Nicholas Kristof

The New York Times columnist uses a series of “questions” — not all of them phrased in a way that would be acceptable on Jeopardy — to urge...

Pro-Euthanasia Referendum Garners 65 Percent of New Zealand Vote

New Zealand will soon join the list of countries that permit doctors to kill or assist the suicides of patients. A recent referendum to support...

Inside the November 16, 2020, Issue of National Review

The November 16, 2020, issue is out, and has a bevy of wonderful articles that bring sunshine and wit and wisdom your way. The physical National...

Quinnipiac Polls Iowa: Ernst 48, Greenfield 46

Quinnipiac polls have produced some of the best numbers for Democratic candidates across the country this year, and earlier this month the pollster...

Showstoppers

That picture up there is by National Review’s own Molly Powell. It shows a New Hampshire scene. At the bottom of this post is an Ohio scene, taken...

Will COVID Produce an Enduring Shift Toward Working from Home?

Both Owl Labs and Upwork have new reports touching on this topic (which I addressed myself a few months ago here). Most strikingly, the Upwork...

Senators Call for Formal Recognition of the Uyghur Genocide

A bipartisan group of senators led by senators Menendez and Cornyn is leading a push to designate the Chinese Communist Party’s crimes in Xinjiang...

Reconsidering the Alliances Narrative

One important aspect of the debate over foreign policy leading up to November 3 has been taken for granted. That Joe Biden has an uncontestable...

Freedom of Speech in Danger

In this Liberty Unyielding post, Hans Bader writes about the plans the “progressives” have in mind for stifling free speech if they get control....

Twenty-Five Things That Caught My Eye Today: The Terrorist Church Attack in France & More

1. France attack: Three killed in ‘Islamist terrorist’ stabbings 2. Parishioners remember sexton killed in Nice terror attacks One of the three...

Maine Senate Poll Shows Susan Collins and Sara Gideon in a Dead Heat

Republican senator Susan Collins and Democrat Sara Gideon are nearly tied in a new SurveyUSA poll that was conducted October 23-27. On the initial...

Intimations of Mortality

I think I first really felt impending mortality sometime in the 1990s when I was standing in line at a coffeeshop in Lubbock, Texas, and noticed...

Mark Joseph Stern’s Meltdown

Mark Joseph Stern, who covers the judiciary for the increasingly shrill Slate, has spent the last several days melting down over a concurring...

A Clean Slate for the Labour Party

Keir Starmer, the current leader of the British Labour Party, is a shrewd political operator. After a U.K. watchdog reported this week that anti-...

The Other Side of the Gender Gap

Having noted in this post that 1988 was the last time a majority of American women voted for a Republican presidential candidate, I got to...

Correction?

The headline over Kyle Smith’s column describes Joe Biden as the “would-be leader of the free world.” Is that a typo? It is true that Angela...

No Newsroom Is Safe If The Intercept Can Fall Victim to Media Groupthink

Glenn Greenwald founded The Intercept in 2013 with the explicit goal of creating a news outlet that would be insulated from the partisan and...

Could the U.S. Air Force Lose the Skies?

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to interview General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., the new chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force for Hoover’s “Capital...

Thinking about the French Catholic Church Attack from a Church in New York City

My heart weeps at the news of the attack in the Catholic Church in Nice, France. For the sacristan, a father of children, who died, who sounds like...

Pompeo Talks Climate Change in the Maldives

Who knew that the future of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific could hinge on the Maldives? The small island nation is getting some attention following...

Why Absentee Ballots Arriving after Election Day Represent a Vote-Counting Problem

Why shouldn’t states allow ballots postmarked before or on Election Day to be counted if they arrive after Election Day? A GOP consultant made an...

Will Scientists Create a Conscious Human Brain in a Dish?

As society roils with COVID and the election, the biotechnological revolution rushes forward with scientists bound by few enforceable ethical...

The Solicitor General Should Tell the Supreme Court to Hear Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Becerra

The Supreme Court has the chance to decide whether a state can routinely compel nonprofits to disclose their donors. You might think that issue was...

It’s Shocking That the Girl Scouts Even Thought to Recognize Amy Coney Barrett’s Achievement

So my immediate reaction to the Girl Scouts-Amy Coney Barrett tweet story was a wee bit of hopeful surprise. I would have never expected them to...

Why More Wisconsin Voters Won’t Tell a Pollster Their Pick for President in 2020

In Marquette University Law School’s final 2016 poll of Wisconsin, only 1 percent of likely voters refused to say which presidential candidate...

Re: ‘The Pro-Life Case against Trump’

For The Bulwark, Michael Stokes Paulsen argues that pro-lifers should “vote against Donald Trump’s reelection.” I don’t have any blanket view...

What’s Happening to the Gender Gap?

In 2016, 52 percent of men and 41 percent of women voted for Donald Trump. Subtracting them yields one measure of the gender gap in voting: 11...

Where the Candidates Are Going

Josh Kraushaar points out that at the end of the 2016 campaign, Hillary “Clinton was spending an awful lot of time and resources in traditionally...

Donald Trump Is Just Not an Easy Sell in the Western States, Compared with a Generic Republican

From 1980 to 2008, the Republican presidential candidate was from either California (Ronald Reagan), Texas (George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush),...

We the People with Andy McCarthy

The new installment of The Bradley Foundation’s We the People video interview series, hosted by Bradley president Rick Graber, is out, and it...

Now Imagine What the Media’s Other Anonymous Sources Look Like

After the New York Times published Anonymous’s op-ed, CNN’s Chris Cillizza went to bat for the newspaper in a piece titled: “Here’s one big...

A Proxy Editorial? No, Not Maybe

In New York magazine, Jonathan Chait proposes that “Trump: Maybe,” my essay on the impending election, was in fact “National Review’s...

Seven Child-Welfare, Foster-Care, Adoption Things That Caught My Eye (October 28, 2020)

1. BBC News: Leaving care: ‘I made it to university, but then I fell through the cracks’ As the end of the year approached and the other...

Twenty-Five Things That Caught My Eye Today: Freedom, Life & More

1. Reuters: Egypt says freedom of expression “stops” when Muslims offended 2. Hate crime bill: Hate talk in homes ‘must be prosecuted’...

Recent Immigration Slowdown May Have Helped Reverse Decades-Long Decline in Labor-Force Participation

On the homepage today, I discussed the recent slowdown in immigration (legal and illegal) and mentioned that it probably helped American workers....

Still Anonymous

You may recall that two years ago, an anonymous op-ed appeared in the New York Times, called “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump...

Marquette’s Final Wisconsin Poll: Biden 48, Trump 43

Marquette University Law School’s final poll of the 2020 presidential race shows Joe Biden leading Donald Trump 48 percent to 43 percent, but six...

Endowed by the Creator: Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Peter Berkowitz on Our Unalienable Rights

Hoover Fellows Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Peter Berkowitz discuss the final report recently issued by the U.S. State Department’s Commission on...

Supreme Court Lets North Carolina’s Board of Elections Ignore Election Laws and Flout the Constitution

As I noted earlier this evening, the Supreme Court (conservative majority and all) is falling down on the job of defending the express...

No Leftist Bias in Higher Ed? A Professor Disagrees

It’s plain to any objective observer that American higher education has become completely suffused with leftism. Most of the faculty and...

Why Did CNN Publish Anonymous’s Claims without Verification?

“I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” was the dramatic September 2018 headline of a The New York Times oped penned by a...

Why Progressives Are Freaked Out about Conservatives Controlling Just One Elite Institution

The freakout by Democratic politicians and progressive and liberal pundits over the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett has really been something to...

Lights Out (for the Good of the Planet, of Course)

Many cults demand a degree of performative asceticism and quite a few of them find virtue in the simplicity of a more natural, supposedly...

Chip Roy Needs Your Help

Our colleague Brittany Bernstein has a piece on the homepage about a battleground House district in Texas, where the execrable Wendy Davis is...

‘Superb,’ ‘Angelic,’ ‘Transcendent’

In the summer of 2016, the words “vote your conscience” provoked a storm at the Republican convention. Today on the homepage, I have a piece...

The Supreme Court Lets Pennsylvania’s Elected Democrat Judges Rewrite the Law

The U.S. Supreme Court just left in place, for the second time so far, a decision by the Pennsylvania supreme court that threw out part of the...

Ana Navarro Gets Mad at Those Who Voted for Mickey Mouse

CNN political analyst Ana Navarro-Cárdenas, last night: If you’re mad #AmyConeyBarrett was just rammed through to replace RBG, then you better get...

There is Nothing Unusual About Justice Barrett Going to the White House

There has been a lot of huffing and puffing about it being a terrible thing for Justice Barrett to attend a ceremony at the White House (with the...

A Tentative Slight Decline in North Carolina’s African-American Early Vote

So far, more than 3.4 million North Carolinians have voted early — that is 46.5 percent of the state’s 7.3 million eligible voters. Among those...

The Dual Benefits of Attacking ACB on the ACA

Over the last month, the top Democratic attack on Amy Coney Barrett was that she would invalidate the Affordable Care Act in an upcoming case...

The Kavanaugh Court

If Justice Barrett votes as her mentor Justice Scalia did, she will be part of an ascendant conservative majority on the Supreme Court. What kinds...

Daddy Daycare Doesn’t Belong in American Politics

I’m increasingly convinced that The American Conservative should consider a name change. A few weeks ago, they published a historically...

Daylight Savings Forever

Before I became a parent, I didn’t have especially strong feelings about the time shifting by an hour twice a year. Like most people I was aware...

The New York Times’ Echo Chamber By Isaac Schorr About Isaac Schorr Follow Isaac Schorr on Twitter October 27, 2020 11:46 AM

The New York Times opinion section has published, as of 11 a.m. on Tuesday morning, seven consecutive pieces about the need to reform the Supreme...

Judicial Power Isn’t All or Nothing

Jonathan Fischbach argues in Politico that we should reconsider Marbury v. Madison: Letting the federal courts strike down laws as unconstitutional...

Whose Seat?

Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed. And I think there are two little things to say about it. The first is that we very likely have in Barrett the true...

The New Court

The addition of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court could be transformative in many ways. The effect of a new brilliant and persuasive...

‘One Week Out’

Seven days until Election Day, and Rich, Charlie, and Michael discuss the state of the race. They also touch upon ACB’s Supreme Court...

Why the Democrats Failed Against Judge Barrett

I go into some of the reasons in Bloomberg Opinion . Four of the last 14 vacancies on the Supreme Court arose when different parties controlled the...

This Just In . . .

This Just In . . . From the inbox this evening: BREAKING: Pack. The. Damn. Courts. Jack ~ Just this evening, the Senate Republicans pushed through...