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No endgame for rivalry with nefarious China

“My idea of American policy toward the Soviet Union is simple, and some would say simplistic,” Ronald Reagan told his adviser Richard Allen in January 1977, four years before he became presi...

When possible, U.S. must fight one war at a time

Sometimes you need to write about something you’re pretty sure isn’t going to happen. That thing is war with Iran, which Donald Trump doesn’t want, and which he will probably avoi...

Dems will lose again if they run against prosperity

For more than two years, Democrats have confidently insisted the U.S. economy under President Donald Trump (a) would crash and burn; or (b) benefits only the few; or (c) was fake; or, failin...

Mysteries of Kamala Harris

She could be the best candidate to take on Trump – but will America listen?

This war between Trump and Nadler is tawdry

Our system of checks and balances requires that political leaders hold two opposing ideas in their heads simultaneously. If you’re a political leader, the first is that your polit...

Sorry boys, next president should not be a man

According to pollsters and political reporters, a dispiriting dynamic has taken hold of the early stages of the Democratic presidential primary: Voters are discounting female candidates as u...

Our luck is running out

Trump and other world leaders are playing games and breaking things

Uber’s IPO is a moral stain on Silicon Valley

In 2010, I received an email from an ecstatic employee at a startup called UberCab. “What our tiny company is doing for San Francisco right now is huge,” he told me. The employee’...

Our military is like cab owners in the age of Uber

Early on a Sunday morning in 1932, a fleet of some 150 fighters, dive-bombers and torpedo planes struck the naval base at Pearl Harbor. The ships lying at anchor on Battleship Row...

Are Christians persecuted?

Political and cultural elites in the West can’t handle a clash of civilizations

A despicable cartoon in The New York Times

Anti-Semitism can sometimes be hard to pin down, but last Thursday, the opinion pages of The New York Times international edition provided a textbook illustration of it. Except th...

Rituals comfort by reminding us we’re not alone

Recently I’ve been playing a game in my head called “There should be a ritual for...” There should be a ritual for when a felon has finished his sentence and is welcomed back whol...