Avik Roy
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Breaking Down the Whistleblower Frenzy
The Democrats’ media narrative of impeachment portrays President Trump and his administration as serial law-breakers who, true to form, obstruct all congressional investigations of wrongdoing. This then becomes the analytical framework for every new controversy. There are at least two fundamental problems with ...
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More Fracking, or More War?
Here is a news lead that begins with a bang and ends with a whimper: “The strike on the heartland of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry, including damage to the world’s biggest petroleum-processing facility, has driven oil prices to their highest level in” — here, Reuters should have used some ellipses of ...
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Five Cops Were Arrested in Relation to Stormy Daniels’ Arrest
They're facing charges.
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A California Court Dealt a Blow to Religious Liberty. It’s Time for SCOTUS to Act.
Yesterday, the California Court of Appeals issued a truly remarkable opinion in a truly remarkable case. It held that a Catholic hospital could indeed face legal liability for failing to perform a hysterectomy as part of a female-to-male “transition” -- even though its policy broadly bans sterilization ...
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There’s an Obvious Problem with Rudy Giuliani’s Spin on Ukraine
We still don't know the details of a whistleblower complaint that is "said" to involve Trump's dealings with the new Ukrainian government, but we are learning of alleged efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden. Chris Cuomo's interview with Giuliani last night was truly wild. You can watch ...
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Kavanaugh and the Crisis of Legitimacy
It is impossible to separate the latest attack on Justice Brett Kavanaugh from the political strategy of the Democratic party. On September 16, two days after the New York Times’ "Sunday Review" section told of another allegation of sexual misconduct during Kavanaugh's college years, Axios AM, an online ...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Defaces Its Façade
The facade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, designed by Richard Morris Hunt in 1902, contains four large niches that might display sculpture but have traditionally been left empty. This was prudent good taste on the Met's part, since sculpture on buildings is a tricky business that few artists in our age of ...
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It Was Wrong for Trump to Push Ukraine on the Bidens
Most Trump news cycles pass faster than a summer storm, but this one will last a while.
After initially denying it, the president has conceded that he encouraged Ukraine’s president to investigate corruption allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading candidate running against his ...
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Harvard’s ‘Legacy’ Preferences Are a National Disgrace
The lawsuit against Harvard claiming it discriminates against Asian applicants may or may not succeed. But even if it fails, it has done the great public service of revealing how the school’s admissions process works behind the scenes.
The school was forced to turn its admissions data over to an expert ...
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Review: Angel Has Fallen
Scotland is small, as I’ve written before. Before he became a Hollywood A-lister, Gerard Butler studied law at the University of Glasgow with my high-school best friend’s dad. He even lived with her parents for a short while in the 1990s when she was a baby. She likes to tell people that he’s seen her ...
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