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  • Diagnosing American Disorder

    Diagnosing American Disorder0

    The Decline of Nations: Lessons for Strengthening America at Home and in the World, by Joseph F. Johnston, Jr. (Republic; 385 pp., $30.00). How would you know your country is in mortal decline? Joseph Johnston first explains how the Roman Republic and the British Empire rose to greatness and then declined. In light of these

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  • Mixed Emotions on Mother’s Day

    Mixed Emotions on Mother’s Day0

    We’re fast approaching Mother’s Day. Go to floral shops, candy emporiums, or grocery stores, and we find beaucoup gifts we can buy for Mom. Throw in other special gifts and treating Mom for brunch, and we will produce one of the more lucrative retail seasons of 2021, with over $28 billion dollars projected spending on Mother’s Day.

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  • Most Black Republicans Aren’t True Conservatives

    Most Black Republicans Aren’t True Conservatives2

    The Republican Party has been shamelessly embracing blacks on the sole criteria that they embrace capitalism and rehash stale talking points crediting dead Democrats for starting the Ku Klux Klan. Such overtures are acceptable to many, however, because the modern Republican Party rarely articulates a conservative message. The party does excel at something, however, namely,

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  • Bill and Melinda’s Failed Marriage Doesn’t Spell Doom for the Rest of Us

    Bill and Melinda’s Failed Marriage Doesn’t Spell Doom for the Rest of Us1

    In case you haven’t heard, billionaire power couple Bill and Melinda Gates are getting divorced. Mourning the end of the Gates’ marriage, The Washington Post proclaimed, “If Bill and Melinda Gates can’t make a marriage work, what hope is there for the rest of us?” Pshaw. If we leave our assessment of marriage to the

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  • Thanks, But No Thanks: Why I Haven’t Gotten the Vaccine

    Thanks, But No Thanks: Why I Haven’t Gotten the Vaccine0

    In a recent conversation with an internist, the good doctor asked me whether I’d gotten a COVID-19 vaccine. When I told him ‘No,” he then asked if I intended to get it at all. “Not unless someone forces it on me,” I said. I then asked him the same question. “I got the first injection,

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  • Fear of Crime Is the Real Problem

    Fear of Crime Is the Real Problem1

    Crime is back in the news and hardly a day now passes without headlines about shootings at largely peaceful funerals and all the rest. The obvious question is whether this soaring criminality will render big cities like New York City unlivable—a return to when movie audiences cheered Charles Bronson in Death Wish. Today’s crime is deceptively

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