In case you hadn’t noticed, former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is a Black woman, as she repeatedly reminds readers in her memoir, Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, ...

Last week, the Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series with a 5-4 extra-innings victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. Aside from marvelous play by both teams, the series offers lessons fans might have ...

On Oct. 24, 2025, Ireland did not so much elect a president as confirm a pattern. Catherine Connolly’s quiet victory completed a national loop: the country that once exported its people in search of ...

I am now going to tell you something helpful. I have lived now for almost 81 years. For the last 40 years or so, my life has been guided by some words of Samuel Johnson. Among many other brilliant ...

As Zohran Mamdani’s insurgent mayoral campaign in New York City came to a dramatic close, René Girard’s mimetic theory offers a revealing lens through which to interpret the emotional and symbolic ...

New Jersey’s Republican gubernatorial nominee, the surging Jack Ciattarelli, concluded his campaign last night with a rousing election-eve rally just steps from his boyhood home. “I’m telling you ...

You might not have noticed this, but in the run-up to next week’s climate confab in Brazil, Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates put out a memo that largely repudiated most of the narratives underlying the ...

Elvis Presley, as most would agree, sang beautiful songs. But he was wise enough not to attempt composing any of them. Peggy Noonan has written beautiful words and phrases, but she should have the ...

Unless you live under a rock — or teach gender studies — you won’t be surprised to find that people with strong left-leaning political attitudes score far higher on traits like neuroticism and ...

In decades of teaching sociology in colleges, I have explained to students that the most important factors shaping societies are the least “sexy” or “glitzy.” One of these is demographics. It may be ...

Despite the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel brokered by President Trump, it appears that Palestinian society is no closer to accepting a long-term, durable peace with Israel. Recent polling results ...

Mark Levin has had enough. Newsmax (where, full disclosure, I am a contributor), whose founder Chris Ruddy appeared as did Mark at the recent Republican Jewish Coalition’s Annual Leadership Summit, ...