MenuBiden Peddles Obama’s Sham Vision of the Middle EastHe continues a radical transformation of the Democrat Party’s views on Israel.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressn an article in Tablet in early March, Lee Smith how Barack Obama’s degrading of America’s alliance with Israel and his wooing of Iran were motivated essentially by a plan to transform the Democrat Party. To that end, foreign policy was subordinated. The party of Truman, the three Kennedy brothers, and Scoop Jackson had consistently moved American policy towards a strong alliance with Israel out of a basic...…MenuBiden Peddles Obama’s Sham Vision of the Middle EastHe continues a radical transformation of the Democrat Party’s views on Israel.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressn an article in Tablet in early March, Lee Smith how Barack Obama’s degrading of America’s alliance with Israel and his wooing of Iran were motivated essentially by a plan to transform the Democrat Party. To that end, foreign policy was subordinated. The party of Truman, the three Kennedy brothers, and Scoop Jackson had consistently moved American policy towards a strong alliance with Israel out of a basic...WW…

MenuBiden’s Disrespect for Borders and BoundariesHis contributions to the immigration crisis overstep the necessary limits that help a nation thrive.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressoe Biden made major inroads in November by portraying himself as a decent person, one who would restore kindness and normalcy in our political life. He and his party had incessantly portrayed the Trump border policy as heartless and cruel, a betrayal of American values and of America’s history as largely an immigrant nation.Less than two months after assuming the office, Biden’s border policy has...…MenuBiden’s Disrespect for Borders and BoundariesHis contributions to the immigration crisis overstep the necessary limits that help a nation thrive.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressoe Biden made major inroads in November by portraying himself as a decent person, one who would restore kindness and normalcy in our political life. He and his party had incessantly portrayed the Trump border policy as heartless and cruel, a betrayal of American values and of America’s history as largely an immigrant nation.Less than two months after assuming the office, Biden’s border policy has...WW…

MenuDear Big Tech: Freedom Will Triumph in the EndEven in the face of mass censorship, we cannot lose hope.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressocrates ran afoul of Athenian democracy, such as it was, and paid for it with his life. His student and admirer Plato learned the lesson and was more politically prudent. He did not lack greatness for that, nor did he repudiate Socrates’ method and message. Rather, through his efforts, we have a vivid and compelling picture of the man and what he stood for, both of which continue to inspire. Only a few classical scholars know the names of...…MenuDear Big Tech: Freedom Will Triumph in the EndEven in the face of mass censorship, we cannot lose hope.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressocrates ran afoul of Athenian democracy, such as it was, and paid for it with his life. His student and admirer Plato learned the lesson and was more politically prudent. He did not lack greatness for that, nor did he repudiate Socrates’ method and message. Rather, through his efforts, we have a vivid and compelling picture of the man and what he stood for, both of which continue to inspire. Only a few classical scholars know the names of...WW…

MenuOnly Free Thought Can Produce UnitySocial cohesion must be maintained organically, not by force.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressrofessor Marvin Fox once said to a graduate philosophy class, “God doesn’t command us to breathe.” His point was that there is no need to command people to do something they will do anyway. Instead, a commandment directs us to difficult tasks that many would likely evade doing.Thus, when Leviticus commands us to love our neighbor, it is not mainly about loving people who are obviously lovable. Everyone wants to be close to such people. It is as...…MenuOnly Free Thought Can Produce UnitySocial cohesion must be maintained organically, not by force.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressrofessor Marvin Fox once said to a graduate philosophy class, “God doesn’t command us to breathe.” His point was that there is no need to command people to do something they will do anyway. Instead, a commandment directs us to difficult tasks that many would likely evade doing.Thus, when Leviticus commands us to love our neighbor, it is not mainly about loving people who are obviously lovable. Everyone wants to be close to such people. It is as...WW…

MenuThere Was No ‘Insurrection’Overstatement of the year.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Presshe videos and photos that emerged from the Capitol invasion looked like an alcohol-powered high school gang prank that spontaneously gathered momentum. The invaders are pictured walking around taking it in, many shooting videos and taking pictures of the grand success of their teenage disobedience.There was another dimension to the scene that seemed out of 1968 Haight-Ashbury – a little past its prime, but still robustly weird. The icon of this segment was the guy dressed up as a little...…MenuThere Was No ‘Insurrection’Overstatement of the year.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Presshe videos and photos that emerged from the Capitol invasion looked like an alcohol-powered high school gang prank that spontaneously gathered momentum. The invaders are pictured walking around taking it in, many shooting videos and taking pictures of the grand success of their teenage disobedience.There was another dimension to the scene that seemed out of 1968 Haight-Ashbury – a little past its prime, but still robustly weird. The icon of this segment was the guy dressed up as a little...WW…

MenuNo, Leftists, Trump Is Not a ‘Nazi’It’s shameful to use that word in an attempt to score political points — and against a president who has been a great friend to Israel.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Presslmer Wheeler, who billed himself as the World’s Greatest Salesman, used to teach, “Don’t sell the steak, sell the sizzle.”It works pretty well. But if it turns out that all the salesman had to sell was a sizzle and there was no steak, then people will long remember that they have been played and bamboozled.There is a sizzle to virtue. Everyone wants to claim the mantle of...…MenuNo, Leftists, Trump Is Not a ‘Nazi’It’s shameful to use that word in an attempt to score political points — and against a president who has been a great friend to Israel.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Presslmer Wheeler, who billed himself as the World’s Greatest Salesman, used to teach, “Don’t sell the steak, sell the sizzle.”It works pretty well. But if it turns out that all the salesman had to sell was a sizzle and there was no steak, then people will long remember that they have been played and bamboozled.There is a sizzle to virtue. Everyone wants to claim the mantle of...WW…

MenuHow Can We Win the War Against the Left?The first in a series about the American Right and the religious heritage that strengthens us for today’s battles.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Presshe Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz is famous for his , “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” It’s especially easy to see the truth of that statement in this presidential election cycle, with political battles already spilling into guerilla warfare in America’s cities.Many of us are worried about tactics — parrying the blows sent our way by the Left and...…MenuHow Can We Win the War Against the Left?The first in a series about the American Right and the religious heritage that strengthens us for today’s battles.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Presshe Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz is famous for his , “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” It’s especially easy to see the truth of that statement in this presidential election cycle, with political battles already spilling into guerilla warfare in America’s cities.Many of us are worried about tactics — parrying the blows sent our way by the Left and...WW…

MenuObama’s Deviousness, Trump’s ReliabilityGiven a choice between clever dissembling and blunt but honest braggadocio, I choose the latter.Editor's PicksSign Up to receiveHot OffThe Pressy father instilled in me the love of freedom of thought and ideas. A staunch anti-communist and Eisenhower Republican, he thought it a good thing when I wanted to read The Communist Manifesto.  “That’s how we are better than they are. They are afraid of ideas and of people,” he said.I took him up on that fully. Eventually, during my high school years in the late Sixties, there was a poster of Lenin on...…MenuObama’s Deviousness, Trump’s ReliabilityGiven a choice between clever dissembling and blunt but honest braggadocio, I choose the latter.Editor's PicksSign Up to receiveHot OffThe Pressy father instilled in me the love of freedom of thought and ideas. A staunch anti-communist and Eisenhower Republican, he thought it a good thing when I wanted to read The Communist Manifesto.  “That’s how we are better than they are. They are afraid of ideas and of people,” he said.I took him up on that fully. Eventually, during my high school years in the late Sixties, there was a poster of Lenin on...WW…

MenuEconomic Crisis and Public Health: Lessons from the 1930sNeed we be reminded of them?Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Presshe 1930s were a public health disaster.It is true that in that troubled decade, death from infectious disease was far less than it had been in the great Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. Infectious disease wasn’t the main vector along which that disaster rolled out, despite the unnumbered people who succumbed to typhus and other such ghastly cohorts of war.The worldwide economic collapse of the Thirties had its primary effect in providing the moist and fertile...…MenuEconomic Crisis and Public Health: Lessons from the 1930sNeed we be reminded of them?Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Presshe 1930s were a public health disaster.It is true that in that troubled decade, death from infectious disease was far less than it had been in the great Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. Infectious disease wasn’t the main vector along which that disaster rolled out, despite the unnumbered people who succumbed to typhus and other such ghastly cohorts of war.The worldwide economic collapse of the Thirties had its primary effect in providing the moist and fertile...WW…

MenuRecognizing Israel: Appreciating Churchill’s Perspective, 72 Years AfterThe enduring importance of Israel’s independence, celebrated this week.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressn December 10, 1948, Winston Churchill rose to address Parliament. As Leader of the Opposition, he questioned why Clement Attlee’s Labour Government in general and of its Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, in particular, had refused to recognize the newborn Israeli state.The United States and the Soviet Union, who by this time were disagreeing on most everything else, had both recognized Israel almost...…MenuRecognizing Israel: Appreciating Churchill’s Perspective, 72 Years AfterThe enduring importance of Israel’s independence, celebrated this week.Editor's PicksSign up to receiveHot OffThe Pressn December 10, 1948, Winston Churchill rose to address Parliament. As Leader of the Opposition, he questioned why Clement Attlee’s Labour Government in general and of its Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, in particular, had refused to recognize the newborn Israeli state.The United States and the Soviet Union, who by this time were disagreeing on most everything else, had both recognized Israel almost...WW…