October 8, 2018

But we tend to romanticize athletes and sports, and gambling will inevitably complicate relations.

Are California’s Democrats really charting a future path for the rest of the country?

The tribalization of conservatism.

On September 20, 2001, speaking to a joint session of Congress, President George W. Bush famously articulated the key component of what would later be called the Bush Doctrine: “From this day forward,” the president said, “any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by…

The return of the Bush Doctrine?

We haven’t “wiped out” ISIS. Or Al Qaeda. Not even close.

It’s hard for Republicans to talk about the economy when Trump’s talking about everything else. They should try anyway.

At some point in the fall of 2017, when nearly every day brought news of another famous man disgraced as a result of allegations of sexual misconduct, I remarked flippantly to a liberal friend that the sexual revolution had not worked out the way we were told it would. “Oh, come on,” he responded.…

There’s a worse way to deal with members of a restive voting bloc than fight them. It’s called appeasement. And yes, that’s the one that Republicans chose to boost Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

The ‘progressive’ problem.

Jalaluddin Haqqani is dead. The terror network he created lives on.

They are many and varied.

Ian Buruma hoped to stimulate discussion about #MeToo.

Andrew Ferguson reads the Trump-era bestsellers so you don’t have to.

The new Laver Cup competition is a blast, writes Tom Perrotta—but will it last beyond Roger Federer’s reign?

John Podhoretz on the creaky, predictable return of the ’90s sitcom ‘Murphy Brown.’

Ralph Taylor, owner of the Orion Insurance Group in Lynnwood, Washington, is decidedly white. Several years ago, though, he took a DNA ancestry test that determined he was only 90 percent Caucasian. He was also, according to the ancestry test, 6 percent “indigenous American” and 4 percent…

Given our inveterate mocking of the New York Times, we’d be remiss if we didn’t draw attention to an incisive op-ed published in the paper’s September 20 edition by the Cato Institute’s Emily Ekins. The headline: “The Liberalism of the Religious Right.”

Readers of The Scrapbook will remember New York Times columnist Anna Quindlen, author of some of the most widely praised and dumbest columns ever written. Quindlen stepped down from the Times in 1995 in order to pursue a career as a writer of sentimental novels, and it has to be said she’s done…

Officials in Fairfax County, Va., recently wondered why so few college students take advantage of the county’s absentee ballot program, so they did what government officials normally do when they encounter a perplexing question: They convened a “focus group.” That’s a fancy-sounding way of saying:…

Stories of first deer hunts are a staple of family lore for many Americans. The genre peaks around the dinner table at Thanksgiving and Christmas, where the token vegan relatives, already feeling a twinge of guilt for demanding a meatless turkey molded out of tofu, are obliged to hear how cousin…