When Biden Said ‘Unity,’ What Did He Mean?
As inaugural speeches go, Joe Biden‘s will be remembered (if at all) for its forgettability. Its best line was borrowed. It lacked the soaring rhetoric of a Reagan, Roosevelt or Kennedy…
‘Free Speech for Me, but Not for Thee’
The American media — long stalwart defenders of the First Amendment — are now having second thoughts. For decades, it was a commonplace sentiment among journalists that freedom of the press…
The Left Wants Unconditional Surrender, Not Unity
About two years ago, one of my wife’s best friends began to turn down invitations to get together. Then, out of the blue, she unfriended my wife on Facebook. That’s…
The tech supremacy: Silicon Valley can no longer conceal its power
‘To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle,’ George Orwell famously observed. He was talking not about everyday life but about politics, where it is…
Biden LGBT Rights Order Charges Into Culture War
An executive order on LGBT rights signed by President Joe Biden on Wednesday signals the start of a bitter cultural clash that will loom large over his presidency. Biden’s directive broaches almost…
Biden’s Day
It was impossible to hear Joe Biden’s Inaugural Address without comparing it to Donald Trump’s. Four years ago, Trump blamed the “American carnage” that propelled his rise to power on…
8 Strategies For Exiting The Biden Years Stronger Than The Right Went In
Joe Biden’s inauguration is a sad day for those of us on the right, and it’s not just because — either through actual votes or through deliberate election confusion — we lost…
Watchdog Calls for Transparency from University of Pennsylvania’s Biden Center
A good-government watchdog is calling on secretary of state nominee Antony Blinken to disclose any foreign-funding sources for the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Biden Center, where Blinken served as director, as part…
COVID-19 could be the moment we turn to school choice as a road to equal opportunity
Nothing in the historical record has disrupted American schools quite like COVID-19. Millions of students will lose more than a year of classroom instruction. Only the most hopeful think schools…
In Virginia, the GOP May Find its Great New Hope
Adapt or die.” In business, it’s a well-known maxim but it surprisingly doesn’t carry much weight in politics. For some reason the consultants, donors and strategists driving candidate selection too…
BOOK: Covid-19 and the American Phoenix
Author: Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi On January 15, 2020, a man of Chinese descent and a U.S. resident in his 30’s, arrived in Seattle from Wuhan. When asked about his…
The End Game – What Went Wrong
It would be nice if everyone had given their attention to how quickly Congresscompleted its work Wednesday. How, after a brief disruption, it counted the electoral ballots and confirmed President-elect Joe Biden and…
As Dems Retake Government, Standoff With Party’s Left Flank Looms
Victory in Georgia has guaranteed Democratic control of the White House and Congress, giving President-elect Joe Biden expanded options but also denying him cover from the demands of his party’s…
The best path forward is bipartisan statesmanship, not the 25th Amendment or impeachment
Americans are bandwagon people, jumping quickly from one opinion to another. Once we jump, we want to fire up the engines and go full speed ahead. Now, in the wake…
The New York Times Is Now Officially Chinese Communist Propaganda
The New York Times has a long, sordid history of being in bed with brutal authoritarian regimes. From Walter Duranty praising the goodness of the Soviet Union to the Times’…