8+ hour, 1+ min ago  (279+ words) Aaron Mac Lean is the host of the School of War podcast, national security analyst for CBS News, and a columnist for the Free Press. He was a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Hudson…...

10+ hour, 56+ min ago  (289+ words) Col. Thorsness recounted his experiences in Surviving Hell: A POW's Journey. If it's possible to give something beyond "the last full measure," he gave it. Thinking of Memorial Day in the context of the controversies of 2009, Leo wrote the following…...

20+ hour, 30+ min ago  (211+ words) We no longer have a firm grasp of the obvious. Louise Perry writes (paywall) in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) weekend edition, Falling birthrates are a mystery Really? A mystery to whom? Perry writes, There's no shortage of explanations, but…...

22+ hour, 5+ min ago  (246+ words) One of those bad candidates is billionaire Tom Steyer, one of the world's greatest hypocrites, now running as a faux environmentalist and general far-leftist. Among other things, Steyer has advocated racial reparations, one of the worst policy ideas of modern…...

23+ hour, 9+ min ago  (236+ words) Two weeks ago I gave a talk at a symposium on anti-Semitism on the right in New York. One of those who attended the symposium was Dr. Randall Bock. Dr. Bock has a podcast and a Substack. After the symposium,…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (393+ words) Price fixing is a terrible idea, pretty much always and everywhere. That goes for fixing the price of labor as much as anything else. This old lesson is now being re-learned in Britain: Rishi Sunak: What I got wrong on…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (357+ words) Today is the birthday of Minnesota native son Bob Dylan. He turns the ripe old age of 85. It's not dark yet, but it's getting there. I want to celebrate him as long we're both still around to enjoy the occasion....

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (983+ words) This site has now been around for 24 years. In Internet time, we are like Mel Brooks's 2000 Year Old Man. Borrowing from and supplementing previous anniversary posts, I want to highlight themes that continue to resonate with me. As these reflections…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (1937+ words) Bob Dylan celebrates his 85th birthday today. When he snagged the Nobel Prize for Literature a few years ago, I pulled out all the stops by posting a big set of my favorite covers of his songs. I don't have any…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (283+ words) Who is on the left these days, and who is on the right? Who can tell? Hunter Biden appeared as a guest on the Candace Show, illustrating the new political alignment'not so much left vs right, as crazy vs sane....