Enough with the crimes and the sins! Two major U.S. institutions — the military and the church, i.e., the Roman Catholic Church — have allowed (in the former) a major crime and (in the latter) a major sin to go essentially unaddressed for decades, enabling their ongoing perpetration. What crime…

How do you take a good thing that’s been declared dead — and make it viable again? Ever since the Supreme Court declared affirmative action in universities unconstitutional — specifically, race-based consideration in admissions — lamentation is heard all across the Left. Lamentation’s categorical conclusion? …

Jimmy Stewart filibustering for cleaner politics. Bette Davis operating in her reality-based mode. James Cagney conjuring up, as it were, “sumpin’ out of nuttin.’” These iconic American actors, symbolizing iconic American traits, are mainstays of a venue fashioned just for them: Turner Classic Movies. Seven days a week, 24 hours…

It’s not every day when a mundane chore turns into an Enlightening Encounter. Several months ago, I was at the Post Office, waiting in line to mail a copy of — what can I say? — my book, “Can America Save Itself from Decline?” Specifically, it was Volume II of…

The wrangling, yet again, over the debt ceiling — will America default on paying its bills; will it sacrifice “full faith and credit” in the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency; will it actually, by its own hand, destroy its good name in the world; why does it create…

Our styles were so different. But at heart, we were the same: fighters who go the distance. Which is why, ever since the announcement of her death last week, Tina Turner has been much on my mind. Every day since, I have said to my husband, “I miss Tina so…

“To bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.” With these words in 1790, in a letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, George Washington famously counseled a religious minority — and by extension all “Citizens of the United States of America” — on how to keep their newly-established…

Ukrainian children abducted by invading Russian soldiers, by the busloads, in abrogation of the rules of war and simple humanity. American children shot dead in their schools by crazies exercising their Second Amendment right to bear arms, also to kill. …

If only the collective mind could stay collected and fix on the main point. Which main point is: While the West’s “rules-based international order,” early to act, now dithers and drags its feet about sending all necessary weaponry to Ukraine, so that Ukraine can defend itself in the genocidal war…