Democrats hit the trifecta. It’s worse than that. Atop winning the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia and Gracie ...

Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York marks a political milestone and a painful irony. The 34-year-old democratic socialist, son of an Ivy League intellectual and a celebrated filmmaker, now governs ...

In case you hadn’t noticed, former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is a Black woman, as she repeatedly reminds readers in her memoir, Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, ...

Last week, the Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series with a 5-4 extra-innings victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. Aside from marvelous play by both teams, the series offers lessons fans might have ...

New Jersey’s Republican gubernatorial nominee, the surging Jack Ciattarelli, concluded his campaign last night with a rousing election-eve rally just steps from his boyhood home. “I’m telling you ...

On Oct. 24, 2025, Ireland did not so much elect a president as confirm a pattern. Catherine Connolly’s quiet victory completed a national loop: the country that once exported its people in search of ...

I am now going to tell you something helpful. I have lived now for almost 81 years. For the last 40 years or so, my life has been guided by some words of Samuel Johnson. Among many other brilliant ...

As Zohran Mamdani’s insurgent mayoral campaign in New York City came to a dramatic close, René Girard’s mimetic theory offers a revealing lens through which to interpret the emotional and symbolic ...

You might not have noticed this, but in the run-up to next week’s climate confab in Brazil, Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates put out a memo that largely repudiated most of the narratives underlying the ...

Mark Levin has had enough. Newsmax (where, full disclosure, I am a contributor), whose founder Chris Ruddy appeared as did Mark at the recent Republican Jewish Coalition’s Annual Leadership Summit, ...

Elvis Presley, as most would agree, sang beautiful songs. But he was wise enough not to attempt composing any of them. Peggy Noonan has written beautiful words and phrases, but she should have the ...

In decades of teaching sociology in colleges, I have explained to students that the most important factors shaping societies are the least “sexy” or “glitzy.” One of these is demographics. It may be ...