2016 Books: A President Leaves, but the Reading Continues
The best books of 2016, some but not all of them having to do with politics.
The Federal Government Is Ill-Equipped to Handle Natural Disasters
The aftermath of deadly flooding in Louisiana is proving that communities respond more effectively to natural disasters than the federal government.
We Lost Too Many Conservative Luminaries in 2015 — R.I.P.
The conservative movement lost too many luminaries in 2015. A review of some of the most prominent who died. May they rest in peace.
2015: My Year of Reading
I wasn’t sure I could dislike the foreign policies of Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama any more than I already do, but two books proved me wrong.
2014: A Year in Reading
One of the challenges one faces in reading a lot is selecting which books to read: There are just so many out there. For this reason, I not only read ...
A Year of Reading
As the Gregorian year comes to a close, many people are putting forth their favorite reads of the year. I actually track my reading by the Jewish calendar, and list ...
Re: #POTUS and the Culture
I am grateful to both Stanley and Yuval for their kind reviews of my book (as well as to Kathryn and John for their interview and podcast, respectively). I wanted ...
Leaky Leon Strikes Again
In 2009, I warned in this space that Obama CIA nominee Leon Panetta was the most likely leaker of Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s “benign neglect” memo to the New York Times ...
Obama’s Sequester Scare Tactics
The White House has argued that the March 1 sequester of federal spending — a cut of approximately 5 percent from the domestic-spending programs covered by the sequester requirement, along ...
Ed Koch, R.I.P.
Ed Koch was a funny, hard-charging, and deeply patriotic American who changed the trajectory of New York City at a time when that trajectory desperately needed to be changed. Although ...