C onservatism has been tagged as not a body of thought but a series of “irritable mental gestures.” No matter which is the more accurate description, as a holiday exercise I decided to put together ...

Eephus mourns America’s last baseball game.

A Chinese crypto kingpin, a libertarian cyber hero, and a Honduran drug lord all benefitted from Trump’s largesse this year.

T his year brought an abundance of good books, and I use the word “abundance” under advisement. After 2025, I can say with no fear of contradiction that I am fully up to speed on the topic. As a ...

The hospital is at risk of losing Medicaid and Medicare funding for providing gender change surgeries and procedures.

Public Discourse has published an outstanding essay—“ The Judicial Oath and the Judgment of History ”— by Eleventh Circuit chief judge William H. Pryor Jr. The essay is adapted from the Rice-Hasson ...

It is a relief to hear a president give more than lip service to what has become a crisis for our ability to project power.

J ust before Christmas, Ben Sasse, who served as a United States senator from Nebraska between 2015 and 2023, announced that he has an advanced case of cancer and he's going to die soon.

‘I want, I want” is William Blake’s 1793 philosophical cartoon showing a child reaching the moon not via a spaceship but a ladder. T. S. Eliot said Blake’s engraving, the size of a playing card, ...

The Trump administration has cited the Somali fraud case as an example of why the U.S. needs to mass deport illegal immigrants.

T he days leading up to Christmas in 1941 effectively obliterated any sentimental notions about “peace on earth” and “good will toward men.” Not even Father Christmas could evade the nightmare ...

Staffers in the Heritage Foundation’s economic, legal, and data centers resigned over the weekend to join a conservative advocacy group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, National Review has ...