That Bloodbath in the Old Dominion
Tens of millions of Americans are passionately for Trump, and tens of millions are passionately against him. The GOP problem: The latter cohort is equal in intensity but larger in number,...
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Red Lines and Lost Credibility
A major goal of this Asia trip, said National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster, is to rally allies to achieve the "complete, verifiable and permanent denuclearization of the Korean peninsula." Yet Kim...
Their America, and Ours
The spirit that produced the war in the 1860s, and lasting division in the 1960s, is abroad again. A great secession of the heart is underway. ...
That Other Plot — to Bring Down Trump
We have Free Beacon neocons, never-Trump Republicans, the Hillary Clinton campaign, the DNC, a British spy and comrades in Russian intelligence, and perhaps the FBI, all working with secret money and...
It’s Trump’s Party Now
After the Trumpian revolt, there is no going back. As that most American of writers, Thomas Wolfe, put it, "You can't go home again." Traditionalists have been told that for years....
Are Our Mideast Wars Forever?
After 4,500 U.S. dead, scores of thousands wounded and a trillion dollars sunk, our 15-year war in Iraq could end with a Shiite-dominated Baghdad aligned with Tehran. ...
Is Liberalism a Dying Faith?
Equality, diversity, democracy — this is the holy trinity of the post-Christian secular state at whose altars Liberal Man worships. But the congregation worshiping these gods is shrinking. ...
Is War With Iran Now Inevitable?
With his declaration that the Iran nuclear deal is not in the national interest, President Donald Trump may have put us on the road to war with Iran. ...
Is Trump the Heir to Reagan?
To never-Trumpers this is pure blasphemy. Yet the similarities are there. ...
Trump Embraces the Culture War
Call them "deplorables" if you will, but Trump does seem to relish going out to defend the views, values and beliefs of the people who put him where he is. ...
The Dead Soul of Stephen Paddock
In Stephen Paddock, the conscience was dead. He was a dead soul, a moral nihilist, a post-Christian man in a post-Christian age, a monster. ...
Moment of Unity in a Disintegrating World
A massacre of Americans like that in Las Vegas may bring us together briefly. But what holds us together when issues of race, religion, ethnicity, culture, history and politics — our cherished...
Judge Moore & God’s Law
Judge Roy Moore believes that man-made law must conform to the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God," as written in Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. ...
Will NFL Demand Respect for Old Glory?
The question NFL owners are going to have to answer soon with a definitive "yes" or "no" is this: Do players, before games, have a right, as a form of protest,...
Trump — American Gaullist
If a U.S. president calls an adversary "Rocket Man ... on a mission to suicide," and warns his nation may be "totally destroyed," other ideas in his speech will tend to...