Every civilization eventually discovers that reality has an inconvenient habit of resisting ideology. One may legislate higher wages and lower prices, insist that language itself is an instrument of oppression, or address obesity by condemning gravity as discriminatory, but the universe remains gloriously indifferent to our declarations. There are few places where this indifference is […]

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The most seductive political ideas are rarely the most wicked. They are the ones that seem so obviously compassionate that questioning them appears almost indecent. Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for government-owned grocery stores belongs squarely within that distinguished tradition. This idea is nothing new, of course. Every generation produces politicians convinced that they have finally discovered […]

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Those who obsess over Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire are angry at the wrong number. His trillion-dollar fortune, astonishing as it is, is almost beside the point. The far more remarkable fact is that even a trillion dollars dramatically understates the amount of wealth he has actually created. Understand that Musk’s personal fortune […]

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My wife and I watched Toy Story 5 over the weekend, and afterward I started seeing some conservatives criticizing it as “feminist” and even “anti-white.” See, for example, Michael Knowles’s tweet: “If you can get past the relentless feminism and apparent extinction of white people, Toy Story 5 is a cute movie with an important […]

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I have watched many of my fellow conservatives react to the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship decision with frustration and disappointment. I understand that reaction. I have previously written that, in my view, the doctrine of birthright citizenship had been extended beyond its original understanding, that those who created it could not anticipate our modern challenges, […]

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Obama was not the first of a new breed, but the last of the old guard. There is something oddly revealing about the modern Democratic Party’s relationship with Barack Obama. Democrats still admire him, still summon him for campaigns, still place him in the same soft-focus category as Joe Biden whenever they wish to contrast […]

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Unless you’ve read the Bible cover to cover, you probably haven’t bothered to read the Book of Obadiah. Why would you? One of the “minor prophets,” Obadiah contains no inspiring poetry like Psalms, no heroes like Genesis, no parables like the Gospels, and none the vibrant theology of Paul. In fact, the book is so […]

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There are few cinematic experiences more deflating than watching a sequel to a beloved film and realizing, somewhere between the first and second act, that no one involved had the faintest idea why they were making it, other than to have a good time while cashing in. Such is the fate of The Devil Wears […]

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With the news that Spirit Airlines is going out of business, a strange and unrepeatable Golden Age of aviation comes quietly to a close. Not because Spirit was a great airline — no one seriously contends that — but because no other carrier contributed so generously and so consistently to the national archive of viral […]

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There’s a great Calvin and Hobbes where Calvin asks his mother what’s for dinner, hears “tortellini,” and immediately spirals into a full-blown meltdown, treating it like a personal betrayal and a near human rights violation, only for the final panel to show him with a dictionary, quietly looking up what tortellini actually is. It is […]

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