Molly Powell

Black-Nationalist Bigotry

By Molly Powell January 21, 2019

One aspect of the Covington controversy has received very little coverage, let alone condemnation: the outright racism, homophobia, and anti-Semitism of the (very small) black-nationalist group confronting the teenagers. If ...

Culture

Cooke Defends Free Speech in Rollicking Debate

By Molly Powell October 12, 2017

In a debate at Kenyon College September 28, “Hate Speech and the Limits of Free Expression,” Charlie Cooke debated two would-be campus censors, Stephanie Fryberg and Ulrich Baer. I saw the ...

Politics & Policy

Someone Is Mentally Unstable Here. It Might Not Be Trump.

By Molly Powell December 19, 2016

In a last-ditch effort to keep Trump out of the White House, three psychiatrists wrote a letter to Obama, urging him to have Trump evaluated by an “impartial team.”

National Security & Defense

This Is Not a Time for Dialogue

By Molly Powell June 13, 2016

As we pore over the hour-by hour news in the wake of the Orlando shootings, political lines are already being drawn. We can guess which politicians (and which party) will prefer to ...

Politics & Policy

Rubio’s Boot-Gate

By Molly Powell January 7, 2016

Mainstream pundits and fashion editors have recently weighed in on the hot topic of Marco Rubio’s stylish boots -- or “high-heeled booties.”

NR PLUS Magazine

Violence before Victoria

By Molly Powell October 19, 2015

In this era of orange-suited victims beheaded or buried alive en masse by jihadist fanatics, Michael Knox Beran would like to take us back to an earlier era of shocking ...

Politics & Policy

‘Die, Dad, Die! Go to Heaven!’

By Molly Powell June 22, 2015

Family members of the mentally ill traveled to Washington, D.C. to relate their experiences to lawmakers considering the Helping Families In Mental Health Crisis Act.