Amidst the coronavirus pandemic, China has opened up multiple propaganda fronts across the world. The primary offensive you know from the news. Using various intermediaries, China has pushed narratives that accused the U.S. Army of releasing the virus or that any accusations against China are simply racist. Neither are...
Though some deny it, many harbor a strong hostility toward Christians in our society, especially those who obediently wear their faith on their sleeves. You know what they find worse than an outspoken evangelical Christian? An outspoken evangelical Christian who’s also an outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump. Talk...
I confess to a certain self-interest in today’s column. The media, especially newspapers, are in trouble. Conservatives like myself have been relentless in attacking their collective bias over the years, but as more of them fold or reduce staff, it is crucial the institution be saved. Margaret Sullivan, a...
“If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.” —Justice George Sutherland (1862-1942) In his 2008 book Taking Rights Seriously, the late professor Ronald Dworkin explored the origins and governmental treatment of human liberty....
I’m not sure whether COVID-19, first identified in Wuhan, China, in the U.S. qualifies as a true disaster. Putting the disease in perspective, we might look at current influenza illnesses. According to Centers for Disease Control estimates, between Oct. 1, 2019, and March 14, 2020, there have been 390,000...
“There are no libertarians in a global pandemic.” So goes the smug punchline of large-government advocates who point to the necessity of collective action in the face of an unprecedented global crisis. Without government, they say, we’d all be dead. Few libertarians would disagree. The hardcore libertarians at Reason...
We’re not killing the economy, Henry Olsen wrote in The Washington Post; we’re putting it into the equivalent of a medically induced coma. That’s the best analogy I’ve seen on the current course for the U.S. government amid the COVID-19 pandemic. We’re threading a fragile needle right now, between...
Trust is one of those things that takes a long time to build, but can be lost in a moment. Occasionally, we encounter inflection points as a society. These points in time, where trust is at a premium, can dictate how much trust people place in institutions, businesses, and...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s attempted partisan sabotage of the coronavirus relief bill might mark a new low for her. That the bill finally passed doesn’t excuse her reckless gamesmanship. Republican and Democratic Senate leaders were close to an agreement when Pelosi parked her partisan broomstick and poured poison into...
“I think you and any viewer knows exactly where I’m going with this,” MSNBC host Ari Melber said halfway into a stemwinder of a question for Sen. Cory Booker. “What are we to make of the fact that for years on end, Washington, the town you work in, seems...
Rapper and actor O’Shea Jackson, commonly known as Ice Cube, supported President Donald Trump’s impeachment and removal from office. Cube recently said he “can’t wait to see” Trump in handcuffs. So, the black rapper, who became rich and famous by attacking the country’s “racist” criminal justice system, now cheers...
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” —Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) One of my Fox colleagues recently sent me an email attachment of a painting of the framers signing the Constitution of the United States. Except in this version,...
He was the 44th vice president of the United States in the George H.W. Bush administration, but for the last 20 years, Dan Quayle has stayed mostly away from the unfriendly glare of political life. I called him to get his thoughts on the coronavirus and the current political...
The ancient Greeks believed that true leadership in crisis came down to what they called pronoia — the Greek word for “strategic foresight.” Some statesman, such as Pericles and Themistocles, had it. Most others, such as the often brilliant and charismatic but impulsive Alcibiades, usually did not. “Foresight” in...
