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  • Letter to a Worried Grandma

    Letter to a Worried Grandma0

    A grandma wrote to say she’d seen her daughter cutting up her granddaughters’ meat at dinner—and the kids are in middle and high school. Their mom also chooses their clothes. The kids get straight A’s, but the grandma worries that they are being coddled into becoming imbeciles. My response: Grannie—I am sorry to say that

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  • A Tale of Two Uvalde Fathers

    A Tale of Two Uvalde Fathers4

    The sickening massacre of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas has rightly horrified our nation. Some politicians and commentators are once again calling for stricter gun controls. Others fault the abject failings of America’s mental health care system. A few—perhaps the wisest among us—contend that the collapse of morality

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  • Laughter, the Bane of Tyrants

    Laughter, the Bane of Tyrants7

    The Babylon Bee isn’t one of my regularly visited websites, but I landed on its front page the other morning and started scrolling through headlines. Pretty soon a snicker escaped my lips, then a giggle, and then several bursts of downright hearty laughter, which a co-worker was soon sharing after I read him a choice

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  • The New York Times Explains Why Mask Mandates Don’t Work

    The New York Times Explains Why Mask Mandates Don’t Work3

    Throughout the pandemic, few things incited more discord than the mandated use of facemasks as a preventative measure to reduce the spread of COVID-19. At various times, merely questioning the effectiveness of masks or mask mandates could result in a social media suspension, as when Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) received the boot from YouTube for citing

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  • The Parental Quandary of Letting Go

    The Parental Quandary of Letting Go5

    She was my firstborn, the privileged one who received the slavish affections of a delirious father instantly smitten by the new, fragile, squirming, little creature. Her birth unleased a whole new range of emotions and sensations: drooling euphoria, unhinged rapture, besotted reverence, incoherent adulation. There were the feedings and diaper changes and other more tedious

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  • Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Ongoing Assault on the United States

    Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Ongoing Assault on the United States1

    What I know about China I’ve learned from websites and online commentaries. In short, I don’t know much. But retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding does. Spalding, the author of a new book, War Without Rules: China’s Playbook for World Domination, discusses China’s policy of unrestricted warfare in a recent episode of The Epoch

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