What’s similar between some Cold War liberals’ opposition to Chiang Kai-shek and Ngo Dinh Diem and some current conservatives’ opposition to Zelensky? The answer’s in my latest Washington Examiner column. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/column…

I've got an article in the Midwest Review on The Outstate Midwest Vote. It's on the switch toward Trump in Midwestern counties outside million-plus metro areas in 2016 and after--the first of multiple realignments that made Trump president. muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article…

The prevailing political pattern in much--not all--of the world: the Metropole (plus Minorities) versus the Heartland. Visible since 2016, balance changing as Minorities and the young move toward Heartland. My latest Washington Examiner column. . washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/column…

Quite extraordinary that the WaPo’s veteran David Ignatius has written a column laying out the Biden adm’s open borders policy (he doesn’t call it that) and the unpleasant consequences for Democrats. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

How the Los Angeles riots and Donald Trump’s response may spur a rush of self-deportations: that’s the thesis of my latest Washington Examiner column. With, naturally, a little historic perspective. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/column…

A wonderful remembrance of Brian Wilson, of California, of music and musicians, of life from the inimitable Carl Cannon. realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/…

Benjamin Netanyahu has a grounding in American speech and American history. This weekend he praised "the awesome and righteous might of the United States." Franklin Roosevelt Dec. 8, 1941: "The American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory."

The barista proletariat wins in New York. That's the headline on my analysis--lots of demography, dollops of history--of Zohran Mamdani's big (and, in my view, disturbing) win in New York. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/column…

What hath the Twelve Days War wrought? In my latest Washington Examiner column washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/column… I reflect on what may be ahead, and look back on my memories another turning point that most readers don't remember, the Six Days War.

B/c Eli Lake references the “Glorious Revolution,” consider picking up the excellent book by Michael Barone on that revolution: “Our First Revolution” amazon.com/Our-First-Revo…. (Crucial to the success of this revolution is none other than Winston Churchill’s great ancestor, the