Commentary / World Jan 4, 2017
Bidding good riddance to an unpleasant year
The year 2016 resembles a china shop after a visit from an especially maladroit bull.
Commentary / World Jan 2, 2017
Protectionism will make America 1953 again
A revival of protectionism will hurt America more than it will help it.
Commentary / World Dec 17, 2016
Starbucks and the pursuit of snobbery
It is not love that makes the world go 'round, it is a compound of envy and pretentiousness.
Commentary / World Dec 5, 2016
France and the 'right' to be spared from guilt
A French court is censoring a video that says Down syndrome children can be happy.
Commentary / World Nov 28, 2016
Hopefully the last of the charismatic totalitarians
With the end of Fidel Castro's life, we can hope to have seen the last of charismatic totalitarians worshiped by political pilgrims from open societies.
Commentary / World Nov 20, 2016
Did U.S. academia help elect Donald Trump?
U.S. institutions of supposedly higher education are awash with hysteria, authoritarianism, obscurantism, philistinism and charlatanry.
Commentary / World Nov 10, 2016
A disruptive yet ruinous triumph for the GOP
Republicans are riding high now but demography will dictate a grim destiny for the party unless it acts to counter adverse trends.
Commentary / World Nov 6, 2016
What you should watch for on election day
There will be plenty of fascinating aspects as the electoral numbers start to roll in.
Commentary / World Nov 3, 2016
A fitting final chapter to the sleaze sweepstakes
Hillary Clinton's latest scandal shows there is no such thing as rock bottom in these presidential campaigns.
Commentary / World Oct 11, 2016
Donald Trump is the GOP's chemotherapy
Trump is a marvelously efficient acid bath, stripping away his supporters' surfaces, exposing their skeletal essences.