July 9, 2018

The Declaration of Independence as strategy.

A dying breed of GOP moderate, Larry Hogan has handled the rise of Donald Trump better than any other Republican politician

“You’re betraying your whole life if you don’t say what you think—and you don’t say it honestly and bluntly.”

In 2013, Charles Krauthammer was the featured speaker at The Weekly Standard “summit” at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado. His performance was scintillating. He surprised the crowd with his sense of humor. He took questions.

I miss Charles. I’ve missed him for the past 10 months, ever since his operation. As he wrote in his farewell letter, “That operation was thought to have been a success, but it caused a cascade of secondary complications.” Charles fought those complications in the hospital. This meant that he and…

It’s hard to think of a more American company than Harley-Davidson, the Milwaukee-based motorcycle maker. Anybody who has ever seen a Harley—or, more likely, heard one—knows it has a sturdy and uniquely American style. The company’s motto: “All for freedom. Freedom for all.” So you might expect an…

Yes, elections have consequences.

Is anyone paying attention to Iraq?

Wendy Kaminer is actively engaged in an unusual mission for a former board member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): warning the public that the ACLU has abandoned its commitment to defending free speech. Writing in the Wall Street Journal on June 20, Kaminer notes that a recent internal…

The staff at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in the U.K. had a nickname for the Daedalus Ward. They called it the “Dead Loss” ward because so many of the patients assigned to it died untimely deaths. From 1989 to 2000, it’s also where medical staff at the hospital pursued a mercenary policy of…

To judge from Western newspapers, the elections on June 24 in Turkey brought a crisis for democracy. The “crisis” is that Turks will continue to be governed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the perennially popular Islamist former mayor of Istanbul, for whom they voted overwhelmingly, and not by Muharrem…

This Fourth of July, as is my wont, I will bring down from the shelf my well-thumbed copy of What So Proudly We Hail and therewith touch off a semi-controlled bacchanal of patriotism in my little household. I do this as a civic duty and to set an example for my countrymen. The indispensable Karlyn…

When asked whether he intended as prime minister to offer the British public moral guidance, Harold Macmillan answered that if the people wanted moral instruction, “they should consult their bishops.” Macmillan wasn’t suggesting that people don’t need guidance, nor was he without convictions…

Anthony Kennedy was not a great Supreme Court justice, but not a bad one either. If you were to rank the 113 justices so far, he would be somewhere in the middle, probably the upper middle. On the Supreme Court for 30 years, which is a long time as the lives of justices go, Kennedy, who will be 82…

Beating Elizabeth Warren at her own game.

The mysterious assault on our diplomatic personnel in Cuba and China.

The Patriot Legal Expense Fund is here to help Trumpworld.

Democrats will go to war against Trump’s court pick, without much hope of success.

Tony Mecia on the spectacular rise and dangerous lies of a Silicon Valley darling

Sonny Bunch describes belatedly catching up on Wolfe, Roth, and Bourdain.

John McCain’s warning to his party and farewell to his countrymen, reviewed by Jamie Fly

Gene Healy reviews Laurence Tribe’s new book on the constitutional tool of presidential impeachment.

Stefan Beck reviews Rachel Kushner’s ‘The Mars Room,’ a novel that probes the soul-warping effects of prison life.

John Wilson reviews 'Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear' by Matthew Kaemingk

In this month’s GQ magazine is a long essay we knew we shouldn’t read, but we couldn’t help ourselves: “Jimmy Carter for Higher Office in ’18,” by Michael Paterniti.

We were saddened this week to learn of the death of Donald Hall, one of the great formalist poets to arise in the second half of the 20th century. Hall wrote scores of works. He was a talented playwright, a superb memoirist, and an omnicompetent anthologist.

“And thanks to my groomer and stylist, Marvin ‘Marv the Barb’ Church, the world’s best barber, and Ms. Carolyn Brown, who squires me in a marvelous manner. I’m grateful to the remarkable group of artists and activists who sat for interviews for this book, including Harry Belafonte (thanks for the…

Sexism, however we define it, is still a problem. And we reckon it always will be, in a fallen world. Still, a great variety of metrics show that women in America are now doing better than men in an impressive range of areas, from educational achievement to career success. But we’ve tended to…

Readers of the Wall Street Journal’s Review section may remember an explosive essay that ran in its pages in 2011: “Darkness Too Visible,” by the paper’s children’s books columnist, Meghan Cox Gurdon. In that essay, Gurdon surveyed an array of popular books published in what’s called the YA…

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Alice B. Lloyd's reunion.