Around the Web: 2008

Socialists are fond of saying that socialism has never failed because it has never been tried. But in truth, socialism has failed in every country in which it has been tried, from the Soviet Union beginning a century ago to three modern countries that tried but ultimately rejected socialism — Israel, India, and ... Read More

Elections

Klobuchar and Buttigieg Stand Out in an Otherwise Dull, Plodding Night

By Jim Geraghty

The October Democratic presidential-primary debate finally brought a genuine surprise, in that a pair of second-tier candidates who were in danger of being forgotten woke up, smelled the coffee, and brought their A-games: Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg. Considering how other second-tier candidates have turned ... Read More

Video

Culture with Kat Timpf: Professor Says More Will Die if Trump Doesn’t Resign

Jared Yates Sexton, a professor at Georgia Southern University, has declared that 'people have already died' because of President Trump. Read More

Law & the Courts

When Cops Create Their Own Risk, Innocent People Die for Their Mistakes

By David French

The video is puzzling and shocking. After receiving a call to a non-emergency number requesting that police check on a neighbor’s house that had its doors open and its lights on, police approach silently. They look into an open door and into a brightly lit room, but they don’t say anything. They then creep ... Read More

World

Kurdish, Syrian, and Turkish Ironies

By Victor Davis Hanson

Outrage met Donald Trump’s supposedly rash decision to pull back U.S. troops from possible confrontational zones between our Kurdish friends in Syria and Recep Erdogan’s expeditionary forces. Turkey claims that it will punish the Syrian Kurds for a variety of supposed provocations, including aiding and ... Read More

Sports

LeBron James Looks Like a Fraud

By Katherine Timpf

So, LeBron James claimed that Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey was simply “misinformed or not really educated on the situation” when he tweeted his support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. “I don’t want to get into a feud with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn’t educated on the situation at ... Read More

Politics & Policy

Don’t Run a Government Like a Business

By Kevin D. Williamson

One enduring thing of value that ought to come out of the Trump administration — ought, but apparently won’t — would be to finally drive a stake into the heart of these deathless twin superstitions: that the skills and talents that enable success in a particular kind of business are infinitely transferable ... Read More

Elections

Elizabeth Warren Is Jussie Smollett

By Kevin D. Williamson

Elizabeth Warren has a moving story about being fired from a teaching job because she was pregnant, a story that perfectly complements her political narrative that she is the tribune and champion of those who have been treated unfairly by the powerful. Joe Biden has a moving — and horrifying — story about his ... Read More

Politics & Policy

Ocasio-Cortez Salutes Immigrant-Bashing Denmark

By Kyle Smith

As other socialists have done, congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez points to Denmark as a model country: https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1183401439546216449 A problem with countries with generous social-welfare spending is that the open-checkbook state is pretty much incompatible with the open-borders ... Read More

Culture

A Defense of Christopher Columbus on Columbus Day

By John Hirschauer

‛Let those who are fond of blaming and finding fault, while they sit safely at home, ask, ‘Why did you not do thus and so?’” wrote Christopher Columbus in his Lettera Rarissima. “I wish they were on this voyage; I well believe that another voyage of a different kind awaits them, or our faith is ... Read More

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Three Nations That Tried Socialism and Rejected It

Klobuchar and Buttigieg Stand Out in an Otherwise Dull, Plodding Night

Culture with Kat Timpf: Professor Says More Will Die if Trump Doesn’t Resign

When Cops Create Their Own Risk, Innocent People Die for Their Mistakes

Kurdish, Syrian, and Turkish Ironies

LeBron James Looks Like a Fraud

Don’t Run a Government Like a Business

Elizabeth Warren Is Jussie Smollett

Ocasio-Cortez Salutes Immigrant-Bashing Denmark

A Defense of Christopher Columbus on Columbus Day