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Societies, like individuals, can become sick.

And, as with individuals, the symptoms point to the pathology.

The shocking acceleration of antisemitism in our country is a sign that something is very wrong.

Antisemitism is a classic symptom of a society that has problems and is looking for someone to blame. Why is life so hard?

It is no ...Read more

The homeless encampment rapidly spreading across 12 blocks along the West Side of Manhattan from the Intrepid Museum to the Javits Center is a red flag to New Yorkers in every part of the city that if you own anything, the city will not protect you, your business or your property.

Owners of the stores and restaurants along that stretch can ...Read more

A few years ago, nuclear power looked doomed.

Plants were shutting down.

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won applause bragging about closing a nuclear plant "14 years ahead of schedule."

"Why would they applaud?" asks former nuclear engineer Ray Rothrock in my new video. "They shut down New York's finest source of clean energy."

Rothrock...Read more

The Left has thrown a completely counterfactual fit about how the Paramount takeover of CBS created some kind of "MAGA-coded" news division under Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss. No one who watches network news daily right now can see much of a difference today between CBS and ABC and NBC. But mere internal questioning of whether CBS could attempt to...Read more

The New York Stock Exchange opened its doors over 230 years ago. It has been one of the iconic symbols of America's economic might for more than two centuries.

But for how much longer?

Now the challenge for supremacy isn't coming from London or Tokyo or Hong Kong or Beijing. It's coming from Texas.

The Wall Street Journal reported in recent ...Read more

ALTOONA, Pennsylvania -- In Virginia Lee Burton's classic 1939 children's book "Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel," Mulligan often boasted that his steam shovel, Mary Anne, "could dig as much in a day as a hundred men could dig in a week, but he had never been quite sure that this was true."

By the end of the story, Mulligan never gets the ...Read more

An early period of World War II was known as "the phony war."

What we may be witnessing now in the U.S.-Iran war is the end of a "phony peace."

The nearly five-month-long conflict has featured a couple of sham ceasefires, each marked by supposed Iranian pledges to reopen the Strait of Hormuz that came to nothing.

With the Iranians firing on...Read more

President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani each gave a speech in honor of America's 250th birthday. If you removed the name, it'd have been difficult to guess they were talking about the same country.

Start with this. Trump celebrated America's history. He praised America's military heroes and iconic figures like Davy ...Read more

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she knows why socialism is on the rise: Blame it on the boomers.

"Millennials and Gen Z combined, now for the first time, are eclipsing the number of baby boomers," she explained recently. "Young people overall feel a tremendous amount of betrayal about the world we've been left."

It's inarguable that younger ...Read more

The Democratic Party has come a long way since Bill Clinton was president -- and not in a good way.

In 1993, the first year of the Clinton presidency, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) introduced legislation to end automatic birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens; today, Democrats routinely call to abolish Immigration and Customs ...Read more

Two hundred and fifty years ago, men in powdered hair and knee breeches did what no colony had ever done successfully. They broke away from the most powerful empire on earth. They were not bloodthirsty radicals. They had petitioned again and again to remain loyal subjects of the Crown. They fought for what was already theirs.

Now look at the ...Read more

The "independent fact checkers" at PolitiFact did something truly shocking on July 2. They tagged a Democrat with their harshest judgment, "Pants On Fire." It's shocking because it's been almost two years since the last time they lit pants for a Democrat. On July 31, 2024, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker was flagged for suggesting J.D. Vance had sex...Read more

It's beginning to be a habit. It, in this case, is the messy business of center-left political jettisoning one leader suddenly deemed unelectable and, without resort to the usual rules or democratic procedure, designating a replacement. It's the process that came fairly close to giving Americans President Kamala Harris in 2024.

It's happening ...Read more

The United States Supreme Court is the most powerful and respected tribunal in world history. It commands the power of judicial review to invalidate acts of the president or Congress. Its relative impartiality, compared with the legislative and executive branches, finds expression in consistently higher public confidence ratings. The number of...Read more

There are moments when history reaches across the centuries with startling clarity. Standing in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, Italy, and looking at Ambrogio Lorenzetti's "Allegory of Good and Bad Government," I had one of those moments.

Nearly 700 years old, the series of fresco paintings includes a depiction of a bustling city that ...Read more

It's been a busy week news-wise. Here are a few of my observations (not likely to be popular) on some of the most notable headlines.

1. The U.S. men's soccer team should have declined the red card reversal. During the World Cup game between the USA and Bosnia-Herzegovina, star scorer Folarin Balogun got a "red card" for "serious foul play" ...Read more

The United States nation faces threats that extend beyond the familiar divide between Democrats and Republicans. Increasingly, two ideological movements -- one on the far left, one emerging on the populist right -- share a willingness to undermine the principles that have long defined the American experiment.

On one side stands the Democratic...Read more