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Merkel Flips Off Biden’s Protest—to Buy Putin’s Gas 0
- Politics
- May 25, 2021
When the U.S. created NATO, a primary purpose of the alliance was to serve as a western wall to defend Germany against the 400,000 Russian troops on the eastern side of the Elbe River. Seventy years later, Germany has decided to double its dependence on Vladimir Putin’s Russia for the natural gas needed to run
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The Next Great Scandal: Photoshopped Modesty 0
- Culture
- May 25, 2021
There’s a new censorship scandal afoot: it involves school yearbook pictures, a little too much skin, and some lousy Photoshop skills. Blond, smiling ninth-grader Riley O’Keefe was one of the “victims” of some aggressive photoshopping of her yearbook pictures by high school administrators. O’Keefe’s original school picture featured a gray sweater over a low-cut black
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The ‘Woke’ Are Sleeping on China 0
- International
- May 24, 2021
Every day I read online about systemic racism, transgender issues, President Joe Biden’s latest faux pas, and other American social ills. All well and good. I’ve written about some of these same issues as well. But are we elevating the trivial at the expense of the significant? Many of our citizens are focused on the
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Why There Are So Few Female Chess Grandmasters 0
- Culture
- May 24, 2021
Only those of very hard hearts can fail to admire Beth, the heroine of Walter Tevis’s magnificent novel, and now a popular television series, The Queen’s Gambit. We love the idea of her, a girl who makes good, starting off from very modest beginnings. She overcomes alcohol and drug addictions and rises to the very top
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Did the GOP Just Dodge a Bullet?0
- Politics
- May 21, 2021
When he took the floor of the Senate to reject the Democrats’ Jan. 6 Commission, Mitch McConnell may have salvaged his party’s chances to recapture the House in 2022. For that commission, being spun as a “bipartisan” effort to learn what “really happened” in the Capitol that fateful day, is a Democratic scheme to have
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The Forgotten Reason for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 0
- Culture
- May 21, 2021
“The U.S. Can Neither Ignore nor Solve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” was the headline of Martin Indyk’s May 14 article in Foreign Affairs. Washington may not be able to end that conflict, he wrote, but must actively manage it. Indyk, a former U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace under President Barack Obama, and who served two separate
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