July 23, 2018

David Skinner, taskmaster.

Three lessons from Hayek that helped a conservative reformer understand that authority should be devolved.

Whether the end of (Theresa) May comes in July or September, Jacob Rees-Mogg will be Tory executioner and Tory kingmaker.

As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump vowed to nominate federal judges “in the mold of” Antonin Scalia, and he has lived up to his word. Neil Gorsuch was a superior pick to replace the late Justice Scalia in 2017. And the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to replace Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme…

President Donald Trump visited Brussels on July 10 as part of his three-nation European trip. There he offended our NATO allies and outraged both the American and European news media by excoriating the many alliance members who spend below the 2 percent of GDP they agreed to spend on defense in…

So Brett Kavanaugh is now part of the story. Kavanaugh, from that part of the swamp known as Bethesda, Md., is President Trump’s nominee for the seat vacated by retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. If Kavanaugh is confirmed, and if, as advertised, he is a constitutionalist, the country will be closer…

When President Trump announced last Monday that he had chosen Brett Kavanaugh to replace Anthony Kennedy, his little speech rang out like a starter pistol. Instantly every activist, party hack, and ideological mainchancer bolted from the blocks, issuing petitions and press releases and formal…

Subtlety not being Donald Trump’s customary approach to his job, his nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court was a surprisingly artful political play.

On June 3, at 6:13 p.m., President Trump was evidently in a bad mood. He had heard or read one too many times that he uses bad grammar and eccentric capitalization. He tweeted:

There are better ways than tariffs to get concessions.

Democrats will go after him by fair means or foul. Mostly foul.

Will he ever stop running?

The GOP primary in Wisconsin is a contest of personalities, not policies.

Catesby Leigh on the fight to build a World War I memorial near the White House.

B.D. McClay reviews Daisy Hildyard's 'The Second Body'—a thought experiment in how we relate to the world.

John Simon introduces the great director to a new generation on his centennial.

"How will you cover 2018 without the repeat of the 2016 errors and continue on with what I have read as really strong journalism since 2017? . . .

It’s July. The news tends to be less momentous than at other times. The Scrapbook understands that. But the media’s sudden fixation on individual acts of “protest” has us wishing for more stories about kids giving back to the community and celebrities saying dumb things.

One of the tragedies of American life, as we’ve had occasion to lament in these pages before, is the slow decline of local journalism. The Internet and social media seem to meet many people’s need to stay connected to their communities, news organizations are widely reviled by a polarized public,…

With the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy and nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to take his place, liberal academics and commentators are panicked, so sure are they that a more conservative Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade. Believing as we do that Roe was a moral and constitutional…

The line between politics and entertainment grows blurrier with each passing hour. Consider: As the battle over President Trump’s second Supreme Court nomination began to take shape, millions of conservatives in search of expert analysis tuned into . . . Tomi Lahren.