Victor Davis Hanson Podcast -- Episode 36: Generals Foreign and Ancient

Why Absentee Ballots Arriving after Election Day Represent a Vote-Counting Problem

By Jim Geraghty

Why shouldn’t states allow ballots postmarked before or on Election Day to be counted if they arrive after Election Day? A GOP consultant made an illuminating argument to me this week. When the polls close on Election Night, we want election workers to know precisely how many legitimate ballots exist in a ... Read More

Elections

Why Absentee Ballots Arriving after Election Day Represent a Vote-Counting Problem

By Jim Geraghty

Why shouldn’t states allow ballots postmarked before or on Election Day to be counted if they arrive after Election Day? A GOP consultant made an illuminating argument to me this week. When the polls close on Election Night, we want election workers to know precisely how many legitimate ballots exist in a ... Read More

Media

No Newsroom Is Safe If The Intercept Can Fall Victim to Media Groupthink

By Jack Crowe

Glenn Greenwald founded The Intercept in 2013 with the explicit goal of creating a news outlet that would be insulated from the partisan and financial pressures inherent to corporate media. As he acknowledges in a resignation letter published Thursday, that project has ultimately failed. The Intercept’s ... Read More

Media

No Newsroom Is Safe If The Intercept Can Fall Victim to Media Groupthink

By Jack Crowe

Glenn Greenwald founded The Intercept in 2013 with the explicit goal of creating a news outlet that would be insulated from the partisan and financial pressures inherent to corporate media. As he acknowledges in a resignation letter published Thursday, that project has ultimately failed. The Intercept’s ... Read More

Video

Media Criticize Amy Coney Barrett’s ‘No Notes’ Moment

During her Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Judge Amy Coney Barrett revealed her empty notepad to Sen. John Cornyn (R., Texas). Read More

Video

Media Criticize Amy Coney Barrett’s ‘No Notes’ Moment

During her Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Judge Amy Coney Barrett revealed her empty notepad to Sen. John Cornyn (R., Texas). Read More

White House

Hell, Yes

By Conrad Black

Editor’s Note: If you would like to read more pros and cons on voting for President Trump, further essays on the subject, each from a different perspective, can be found here, here, here, here, and here. These articles, and the one below, reflect the views of the individual authors, not of the National ... Read More

White House

Hell, Yes

By Conrad Black

Editor’s Note: If you would like to read more pros and cons on voting for President Trump, further essays on the subject, each from a different perspective, can be found here, here, here, here, and here. These articles, and the one below, reflect the views of the individual authors, not of the National ... Read More

NR PLUS Elections

Another Pollster Sees a Trump Win

By Kyle Smith

The Trafalgar Group’s Robert Cahaly is an outlier among pollsters in that he thinks President Trump will carry Michigan, Pennsylvania, or both, and hence be reelected with roughly 280 electoral votes. (I explained his thinking here.) Last week another pollster, Jim Lee of Susquehanna Polling and Research, ... Read More

NR PLUS Elections

Another Pollster Sees a Trump Win

By Kyle Smith

The Trafalgar Group’s Robert Cahaly is an outlier among pollsters in that he thinks President Trump will carry Michigan, Pennsylvania, or both, and hence be reelected with roughly 280 electoral votes. (I explained his thinking here.) Last week another pollster, Jim Lee of Susquehanna Polling and Research, ... Read More

Education

Teachers Unions and the Myth of ‘Public’ Schools

By Cameron Hilditch

American taxpayers have been hoodwinked by the whole idea of “public schools.” No other institutions get away with such bad behavior on the part of some employees who staff them. We’ve been putting more and more money into the system for decades without reaping more returns for the nation’s children. Just ... Read More

Education

Teachers Unions and the Myth of ‘Public’ Schools

By Cameron Hilditch

American taxpayers have been hoodwinked by the whole idea of “public schools.” No other institutions get away with such bad behavior on the part of some employees who staff them. We’ve been putting more and more money into the system for decades without reaping more returns for the nation’s children. Just ... Read More

Economy & Business

Daylight Savings Forever

By Robert VerBruggen

Before I became a parent, I didn't have especially strong feelings about the time shifting by an hour twice a year. Like most people I was aware of the downsides -- increased car accidents, schedule confusion, etc. -- and I figured it would be better to knock it off. But I didn't feel personally offended by ... Read More

Economy & Business

Daylight Savings Forever

By Robert VerBruggen

Before I became a parent, I didn't have especially strong feelings about the time shifting by an hour twice a year. Like most people I was aware of the downsides -- increased car accidents, schedule confusion, etc. -- and I figured it would be better to knock it off. But I didn't feel personally offended by ... Read More

U.S.

Daughter of Immigrants Shocked to Find Family Store Looted in Philly Riots: ‘They Know My Mom’s Name’

By Ryan Mills

Christine Baik received a security alert on her phone at 7:12 p.m. on Tuesday: someone had broken into her parent’s Philadelphia beauty supply store. She called her parents, who were on their way home. They immediately turned around. “They went back to the store and found out that it got looted,” Baik ... Read More

U.S.

Daughter of Immigrants Shocked to Find Family Store Looted in Philly Riots: ‘They Know My Mom’s Name’

By Ryan Mills

Christine Baik received a security alert on her phone at 7:12 p.m. on Tuesday: someone had broken into her parent’s Philadelphia beauty supply store. She called her parents, who were on their way home. They immediately turned around. “They went back to the store and found out that it got looted,” Baik ... Read More

NR PLUS Law & the Courts

Rolling the Dice on Chaos, Supreme Court Ducks Election-Law Cases

By Andrew C. McCarthy

There’s one thing we’ve forgotten to mention about political intimidation of the Supreme Court. It works. On the right, and among those who respect history, tradition, and stability, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Court-packing gambit is remembered as a welcome rejection of radicalism: At the pinnacle of ... Read More

NR PLUS Law & the Courts

Rolling the Dice on Chaos, Supreme Court Ducks Election-Law Cases

By Andrew C. McCarthy

There’s one thing we’ve forgotten to mention about political intimidation of the Supreme Court. It works. On the right, and among those who respect history, tradition, and stability, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Court-packing gambit is remembered as a welcome rejection of radicalism: At the pinnacle of ... Read More

NR PLUS U.S.

Portland Riots: How Troubled Youth, Angry Moms Locked Arms to Upend a City

By Ryan Mills

Sporting an open wound near his right eye after he was shot in the face with a pepper ball, Camillo Massagli put his trumpet to his lips in late July and blew the tune to the Portland protesters’ anti-police chant. “Take it to the streets, and (expletive) the police. No justice, no peace.” With his ... Read More

NR PLUS U.S.

Portland Riots: How Troubled Youth, Angry Moms Locked Arms to Upend a City

By Ryan Mills

Sporting an open wound near his right eye after he was shot in the face with a pepper ball, Camillo Massagli put his trumpet to his lips in late July and blew the tune to the Portland protesters’ anti-police chant. “Take it to the streets, and (expletive) the police. No justice, no peace.” With his ... Read More

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