Opinions

JOSH HAMMER

JOSH HAMMER

A 2024 wish list: sanity at home and stability abroad

The calendar turns to 2024, and the world under President Joe Biden’s watch is burning. The United States’ southern border has reached a historically catastrophic state; overrun border towns such as Lukeville, Arizona and Eagle Pass, Texas are the laughingstocks of the world.
TERENCE P. JEFFREY

TERENCE P. JEFFREY

John Lennon vs. John Adams and George Washington

Afew minutes before the ball came down on Times Square on New Year’s Eve, Paul Anka sang a song that has become a tradition for this event. It was “Imagine,” a 1971 song John Lennon co-authored with his wife, Yoko Ono.
LAURA HOLLIS

LAURA HOLLIS

Standards must apply to everyone

Dr. Claudine Gay has resigned as president of Harvard University. A tepid nonresponse to congressional questioning about opposing antisemitism and calls for genocide of Jewish people on college campuses was enough to doom Liz Magill, former president of the University of Pennsylvania.
A post-wedding dispatch on marriage

A post-wedding dispatch on marriage

A post-wedding dispatch on marriage

Iwrite this as a very different man than I was when writing my last column. Then, I was merely engaged; now, after the single greatest week of my life culminated in the single greatest day and night of my life, I am married. I am filled with immense, overwhelming gratitude.
The lessons of 2023

The lessons of 2023

The lessons of 2023

EDITOR ’S NOTE: Laura Hollis is off this week. We hope readers will enjoy the following guest column by Ben Shapiro. 2 023 was a rather bad year. Not as bad as 2024 is likely to be, or as 2020 was. But bad. Nonetheless, we ought to learn from the bad as well as the good.
Christmas gifts: newest target of the activists for climate change

Christmas gifts: newest target of the activists for climate change

Christmas gifts: newest target of the activists for climate change

People need to realize the Left is using the alleged “existential” threat of global warming to wage war against liberty, against the Western world’s (not China’s) economy and against joy. The automobile, that magnificent enhancement to human freedom and joy, is a target.
National Defense Authorization Act does not defend life, children

National Defense Authorization Act does not defend life, children

National Defense Authorization Act does not defend life, children

When the U.S. House of Representatives was considering the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act in July, the American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to members of the House. It expressed opposition to a number of amendments being considered for the act.