Jean Kaufman is a writer and blogger who contributed essays and commentary to The Weekly Standard between 2009 and 2015. Her pieces for the magazine ranged across politics, history, and culture, covering topics from health care policy and presidential comparisons to broader questions about Western civilization and cultural identity.
It’s no secret that Donald Trump has contempt for Jeb Bush, some of it well-earned. And Trump’s recent remarks pointing out that “the World Trade Center came down” during George W. Bush’s “reign” have been rightly seen as a way to needle and flummox brother Jeb. In that, he’s been quite successful,…
Whenever I read about the European response to the current wave of “migrants” to Europe, one of the first questions that comes to mind is, “Why?”
President Obama has repeatedly denied that terrorists have anything to do with the real Islam. But what would Obama say about the fatwa that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran’s leading political and religious authority from 1979 to 1989, issued condemning author Salman Rushdie to death for writing…
One hundred years ago, on the evening of April 14, 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg. A few hours later, on April 15, the great ship went down, taking the lives of 1,514 people.
Congress has always had its flaws. All too often, the road to the enactment of legislation has been fraught with corruption, stupidity, threats, bribes, and other sordid practices.
The old saw about generals who err by fighting the last war instead of the present one may offer the best explanation for the peculiar inability of a surprising number of Democrats—including, it seems, President Obama and his top advisors—to heed the message that the people don’t want them to…
Ronald Reagan believed in America.