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Having read Julian Jackson’s absolutely astonishing biography of Charles de Gaulle, I was excited to know that two feature-length films based on the...
Daniel McCarthy has written a provocative column in the new issue of The Spectator, arguing that libertarianism has "disappeared" from our...
It now seems like every week there is a big controversy in Ireland related to the Palestinian cause. Ed Sheeran got into hot water with the Irish...
Oren Cass has a very smart essay on how to respond to the AI doom scenarios with what we’ve learned from the environmental catastrophists: The...
When Trump was reelected, there was a lot of talk about “the vibe shift.” It was basically a phrase meaning the end of the woke era and the start...
The magazine and newspaper industry was chomped to pieces by the internet and chewed up in the great financial crisis. The survivors of the larger...
In his U.S. House race, former Maine Governor Paul LePage throws a little French into a campaign ad. It might be the first time we’ve seen French...
I've found the two-week freak-out about AI unenlightening for the most part. The vast majority of the people prophesying imminent doom know very...
David Sacks, the influential investor and technologist who was until recently Donald Trump's AI and crypto czar, has emphasized that the...
I recommend this very sweet piece in the Wall Street Journal about one father’s attempt to teach the knuckleball. While my son Ben worked hard on...
Dan Hitchens at First Things has penned a remarkable reported essay on Roger Scruton’s life and formation. Don Jr. Will Regret It Russia’s...
Obviously the world of politics has been colonized by the debates about AI because the leading AI companies have C-suites that have shifted from...
Again, I recommend that people who are being made fearful by employees of the leading AI labs, Anthropic and OpenAI, should read Cal Newport. There is...
Can we cabin AI to prevent it from killing us by excluding it from sensitive systems like nuclear weapons, the grid, or wet labs? Ramesh asks. I think...
It’s a bit of a dog-bites-man story, but the Wall Street Journal has a piece about the push in warehouses to bring more robots in. “Labor costs...
I really appreciate Jonah Goldberg's response to my column today on the many Ronald Reagans and many JD Vances that people love and hate in turn....
Another AI company employee, this time from Anthropic, has publicly announced a career change along with the conviction that the frontier model AI...
After a new round of shuttle diplomacy, Russia has made a new offer to Ukraine. It’s obviously worse than what was reportedly on offer in Istanbul...
Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times grandee and occasional contributor to New York–based periodicals, has submitted his way of commemorating the 9/11...
Ed West’s excellent Substack had a very distressing essay about the broad, almost universal decline of reading. He talked about how distressing it...
Back in the 1950s, Jacques Barzun wrote an essay, “Swift, or the Capacity for Reason,” that continues to astonish me. When in our weariness we...
A few readers quibbled with my column today, pointing out that some the facts of the case I mentioned in Maine, if known, might have made readers feel...
Conor Fitzgerald is now one of the most underrated observers of the scene today, and I highly recommend his essays at The Fitzstack. My favorite from...
My former colleague Jonah Goldberg writes a nice column on “One Thingism” — and the way that anti-Israel sentiment is now used as moral cover...
Okay, at the risk of turning in my right-wing-conspiracy card, I found this clip of Michelle Obama endearing and entertaining, and funny, not a...
U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham was asked (I think) about what his agenda was while visiting Northern Ireland. He was asked about a "border...
I was harsh today on America’s approach under Trump to Canada in these trade negotiations, but it is worth hearing the other side. Michael Taube,...
The series covering the Troubles on the podcast The Rest Is History is really quite good. The hosts, Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland, have a knack...
I went on vacation as the debates about the common good were blending into a mole sauce and became a debate about burritos, but I had a thought on it...
Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s National Rally party, a descendant of the National Front, has been a political renovator. Her party, like other...
Jim Geraghty writes about the declining number of births to Americans last year and the knock-on effects of this. He alludes to an issue that has...
Normally around this time of year, I write a casual column about the joys of summer. I was asked for one specifically by The Spectator for their diary...
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...
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...
In yet another post (of several) trying to end the debate about the common good simply by reasserting that the people who are credited with...
Okay, last and final word on this. To further illustrate that the common good, like liberty or democracy or due process or equality, is another...
I’m heading for some time off. But I think I have a little more to contribute before I fall silent. To recap: Dan expressed his doubt that “the...
I confess I had to read Dan’s post “What Exactly Is ‘the Common Good’?” twice before I could believe he wrote it. Was he really suggesting...
Here's the full segment with Senator Hawley GOING OFF on Fauci and it's well worth the watch. Send this to EVERYONE you know....
I know it was before his cowardly appearance before the Senate this morning, but this Miranda Devine column on Dr. Fauci and his diaries is...
Bombing or no-bombing, MOU or no MOU: We have a war that our people and our allies don’t want to support. Five months into it, after we were told...
The New York Times writes about our former colleague, now leader of the Manhattan Institute, Reihan Salam: Reihan Salam has a lot in common with the...
It’s been really fun to watch clips of this Sunday’s All-Ireland Gaelic football championship go viral across social media. The more I watch of...
Earlier this week, Jim took a dim view of potential talks with the Iranians. The Iranian regime demonstrated, clearly and frequently, that any...
The Washington Free Beacon has a cracker of a book review, in which Ronald Radosh reads the searching memoir of Zayd Ayers Dohrn. You’ll remember...
For those who know, rigged elections do happen in the Americas. They’ve been happening for years in Nicaragua, ever since the Sandinistas brought...
Ross Douthat has a thoughtful review of Richard Hanania’s book, which is another brief against “populism” but from Hanania’s odd angle....
Over at The Spectator, Owen Matthews has a sobering dispatch about this week’s big news in Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky has sacked his...
Former Vice President Mike Pence says the lesson of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars is the U.S. was only willing to fight "to a point" rather...