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Update on Alfie Evans
In the few hours since I sent in the piece below, a remarkable succession of events has occurred that paint the decision of the UK authorities in ever-bleaker colors. In the hospital, Alfie was removed from the respirator in accordance with the court’s decision. For the moment, however, he has continued ...
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Rand Paul Caves on Pompeo
Good news from the Senate. Hopefully, the White House can begin rolling Rand Paul more often.
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Hurray for the NBA
Last month, just before the Final Four, I did a Q&A on college basketball with our Theodore Kupfer. Teddy K. is back, by popular demand, joined by two other experts: Vivek Dave, an old friend of mine from Michigan, who has long lived in Chicago, and David French, National Review’s Kentucky Kid, now ...
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Trade Misunderstandings
I was distracted by other policy topics last week but not enough not to notice Peter Navarro’s article in the Wall Street Journal, headlined “China’s Faux Comparative Advantage.” Considering Navarro’s position in the White House, it is unfortunate that it demonstrates some serious misunderstandings ...
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President Trump, I Feel Your Pain, but Please Don’t Fire Anyone
Mr. President, I feel your pain. No one likes being under the cloud of an investigation, especially a high-profile one — and the one you are caught up in is as big as it gets. Your enemies treat the fact of the investigation itself as proof of your guilt, and the “fake news” media treats every twist, turn, ...
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Monday Links
A Supercut of Epic Movie Explosions.
Can You Solve These 10 Medieval Riddles?
The cost to make a Margherita pizza: $1.77. How much restaurants charge on average for a pizza: $12. The actual costs of restaurant foods.
Vintage animation lessons -- how to make things cute.
London's "Great ...
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Authorities Confiscated Waffle House Shooter’s Guns Months Before Massacre
Authorities confiscated Travis Reinking's AR-15 months before he used it to kill four people at a Waffle House in Tennessee, according to Illinois police records.
Reinking, who has been on the run since the Sunday shooting, was detained by secret service in July after breaching the White House perimeter in an ...
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We’re a People in Need of Babette’s Feast
Everything seems to become at once deeper and lighter from the moment you sit down in the Theatre at St. Clement’s Episcopal Church for the off-Broadway production of Babette’s Feast. Originally a short story first published in English in Ladies' Home Journal, it’s the story of a Christian community in ...
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On Trade, No One Is Waiting for Washington
President Donald Trump’s flips and flops on trade are now as ubiquitous as his 5:00 a.m. tweets. Many predicted that trade-expansion efforts would come to a standstill and world commerce would suffer amidst all the uncertainty. Instead, the precise opposite has happened. In the last few months, it’s become ...
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Trump’s Syria Quandary
President Trump raised eyebrows recently when he ended a tweet lauding the airstrikes he’d ordered against chemical-weapons facilities in Syria with the words “mission accomplished.” The phrase, of course, became infamous in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, when President Bush used it in a speech ...
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