Memo to Never Trumpers: anyone who would rather see Justice Ginsburg’s replacement chosen by Joe Biden, who helped make “Bork” a verb, was never a conservative in any meaningful sense, and please don’t insult our intelligence by pretending otherwise.
I think we’d be better off if more Americans knew more about their own family’s history. Not only would most of us come away with a renewed sense of gratitude for America, we would also be better able to evaluate the claims of today by something other than the standards of today. Case in point: my paternal great-grandfather, Joseph Piatak, who was born in rural Slovakia in 1868. Three...
Donald Trump’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize has led to some humorous overreactions. Many Trump fans are acting as if this cinches reelection, forgetting that Jimmy Carter’s far more substantial peacemaking in the Middle East did nothing to shield him from the Reagan tsunami. On the other end of the Trump spectrum, the Never Trump Atlantic was so horrified at the mere...
I first saw Diana Rigg starring as Emma Peel opposite Patrick Macnee’s John Steed in “The Avengers,” one of many British cultural imports that flooded these shores in the 1960s. I loved that show and its stars and its distinctive theme song. (The composer, Laurie Johnson, also did the music for “Dr. Strangelove”). Diana Rigg was a great actress who did many great...
The New York Times is trying to scare its readers by saying that President Trump is presenting himself as the defender of “white America.” Of course, for the Times, “white America” should not exist, and no one should defend it, notwithstanding any sentimental notions you might have about the white Americans who wrote the Constitution, or settled the frontier, or invented...
Apparently, the real problem in Portland Saturday night was not that a Trump supporter was murdered for being a Trump supporter. Nor is it that the city was patrolled by a mob poised to assault anyone who challenged the control it had been exercising over parts of the city for months. The real problem is that Trump supporters chose to challenge the mob by entering a city they had every right, as...
Thanks to all of you who voted in the recent contest to pick the worst of the Never Trumpers. It was close, but the gold medal goes to David Frum, the silver medal goes to David French, and the bronze medal goes to John Kasich. Kasich is insufferable, French is an eager turncoat, but the sheer awfulness of Frum is hard for anyone who hasn’t been eagerly pumping poison into the American body...
An American citizen should have the right to go anywhere in the United States and show support for the President of the United States without having to fear that he will be assaulted. We all know that this is not in fact true. And that doesn’t bother the New York Times, the Washington Post, many Democratic politicians, or the sanctimonious Never Trumpers, all of whom have long treated...
The Never Trumpers as a group take self-righteousness, sanctimony, and self-regard to levels seldom seen outside of clinical settings. Or Hollywood. And now they are very busy indeed: speaking at Democratic conventions, writing open letters to the Washington Post denouncing Donald Trump, congratulating each other on their “courage” in joining the rest of the media, the academy, and...
White privilege is an ingenious concept. It allows non-white Americans to dismiss white Americans as the undeserving possessors of an inherited privilege, a privilege unaltered by the circumstances of an individual’s life and indeed unalterable. Thus do billionaires like Lebron James and Oprah Winfrey lecture those raised in the hollows of West Virginia on the need to set aside their...
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