Commentary A nation’s symbols define and conserve a shared way of life and bring about social cohesion. A country needs its symbols. However, over the past generation, such needs have been dismissed as atavistic prejudices, which must be swept away wherever they stand in the way of schemes for national transformational projects. The default position…
Replacing Canada’s Historical Symbols in New Passport With Bears and Birds Is a Poor Exchange
The South Korea Imperatives
Commentary Callista and I recently visited South Korea to participate in Peace Summit 2023, an event hosted by the Universal Peace Federation. The federation is a remarkable organization with activities in nearly 140 countries, and the summit was an amazing experience. Visiting Seoul is always fascinating, and this year it was especially educational. We joined…
After 20 Years as a Prosecutor in Illinois, I Quit
(Editor’s note: The following is an email written by Cook County prosecutor Jason Poje, circulated to colleagues last week.) To my colleagues: After 20 years, I always kind of figured an email like this would start with “It is with a heavy heart that I leave …” The truth is, I can’t get out of here…
Neither Default Nor Chaos
Commentary Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned again (and again and then again) about the dire approach to Washington’s debt ceiling. She has told the nation that the prospect is near and that it could cause the country to default on its debt, an event, she adds, that would bring financial and economic chaos. Media…
The Problem of Lost Knowledge: Antibiotic Edition
Commentary The first evidence of lost knowledge in 2020 concerned natural immunity. How in the world did it come to be that people did not generally know that for respiratory viruses, infection and recovery is the best vaccine? This was the counterintuitive wisdom taught for generations in public school in the postwar period. The point…
Ramaswamy’s New Idea on the Voting Age Merits Consideration
Commentary One thing we don’t often get in our campaigns—residential or otherwise—is a fresh idea worth thinking about. Mostly, campaigns consist of boilerplate laced with invective toward opponents in endless mind-numbing ads. When such ideas do turn up, they’re frequently ignored, especially by our ultra-conformist mainstream media that abhors originality as much as nature abhors…
They’re Coming to Take You Away
May 12, 2023
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Commentary Suppose I tell you in advance that the essay you are reading is meant to startle you. And suppose I suggest, by way of demonstration, that two people as loosely connected as the leader of the “COVID Crisis Group” and Joe Biden’s “Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism”—both of whom have recently offered…
The Great Left-Wing Disinformation Operation Against the Supreme Court
Commentary The past five weeks has seen a flurry of media activity, clearly coordinated, against the right-of-center U.S. Supreme Court. First, the outlet ProPublica began publishing a series of pieces “exposing” the well-known fact of Justice Clarence Thomas’ long-running friendship with billionaire real estate tycoon Harlan Crow, and alleging ethical improprieties pertaining to the justice’s…
The Democrats’ Debt Ceiling Position Makes Zero Sense
Commentary “If you buy a car,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre explained the other day, “you are expected to pay the monthly payment. … It’s that simple.” Is it? Now, obviously, those who argue that the president can cancel millions of student loans by decree aren’t in a position to offer lessons on personal…
Why Elite Libertarians Failed so Miserably on COVID
Commentary A priest friend of mine has been writing for three years against his fellow clerics who went along with the COVID regime, shut their churches, masked their parishioners, and then pushed shots on those who didn’t need them. He said that they forgot the first principle: be not afraid. And the second principle too:…
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