American politics has always been dominated by promises about what the country should look like and how it should operate. But the sweeping expansion of government promoted by the Democratic Socialists of America deserves considerably more scrutiny than its receiving....

There is an interesting story about a college chemistry professor who put an extra credit question on his chemistry class’s final exam: “Is hell endothermic or exothermic? Support your answer.” For those of us whose last chemistry class was several decades ago,...

Kimberley Strassel recently examined socialism’s long history of failure and its advocates’ habit of introducing new versions they insist will work. The names change, the promises get refreshed, and we are asked to believe the next attempt will avoid the failures of...

Most of us think we have a pretty good idea of who we are.  But does the person we see in the mirror resemble the person our spouse, friends, and coworkers see? At a seminar I attended many years ago help me to answer that question.  Each attendee was given a list of...

Democratic leaders increasingly describe themselves as the “big-tent party.” Gavin Newsom , the apotheosis of a political chameleon, has argued for a Democratic coalition stretching “from Manchin to Mamdani.  Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer calls the party’s big...

With the election coming up and the vitriol among politicians increasing, I thought the readership might enjoy a change of pace. A coincidence is a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without an apparent causal connection. Most of us experience...

Where Donald Trump will rank in the pantheon of American presidents remains unknown. But a strong argument can be made that he will be remembered for two defining traits: Proactivity and the use of Soft Power. When Trump went to Riyadh in 2025, he did not lead with...

There is a growing tendency in modern political discourse to reduce extraordinarily complex issues to catchy slogans.  "No Human is Illegal,” "Trans Rights!" "Defund the police," these phrases are designed to fit on a bumper sticker—not to explain reality. The problem...

Members of the nation’s two largest teachers’ unions, the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), voted for Kamala Harris over Donald Trump by a roughly 5 to 1 margin in 2024.  At the same time, the two unions’ political...

“Hoist with his own petard” is a phrase that comes from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, when the Danish prince says, “For ’tis the sport to have the engineer, Hoist with his own petard.”  For those unfamiliar with the term, a petard was a small explosive device used to blow...