Kevin D. Williamson

There are missing pieces in the narrative concerning the lead-up to the tragic drone strike in Kabul.

The idea that jobs are the solution for people whose problems are not, at root, economic is a fantasy.

In a roundabout way that seems only fitting, Texas’s ‘heartbeat bill’ strikes at the ever-more-complex legal sophistry underpinning the constitutional ‘right’ to abortion.

Putin doesn’t think so.

Politically, it would be difficult to return the job’s focus to foreign affairs, as the Constitution intended. But it would do the nation a lot of good.

There is a growing, nigh-unbridgeable cultural gap over guns. But however big it grows, conservatives remain right on the Second Amendment.

What the national stock-up on guns and ammo says about America today

In the eyes of Scott’s Democratic critics, a black Republican is an outrageous anomaly — and fair game for racist abuse.

Scenes from an almost-debate.

Two decades of the conflict have shown us what American foreign-policy failure looks like. What success looks like remains unclear.

It is encouraging to see some gun-controllers taking halfway-sensible stances, and there is room for compromise. But there’s also reason to be wary.

The fact is that voters got us into this mess. Maybe the answer isn’t more voters.

Why you’re going to pay $24,000 too much for a house.

What does it say about America that the dominant political fantasy of our time is one of violent conflict between our two partisan tribes?

The Golden State is in such deep trouble that even Klein can dimly recognize the crisis. But he can’t or won’t recognize its causes.

Lessons from the plague year.

Those who seek a model of responsible manhood would do well to imitate Joseph, the nativity story’s forgotten man.

Our failure in Afghanistan is by and large a failure to understand the true nature of the enemy.

This holiday season, ignore the ‘buy-small/buy-local’ nonsense.

We should be cheerful, useful, modest, and patient, and ever mindful of those gifts and blessings that we could not possibly hope to deserve.

A family of four pays $4,200 for a weeklong pass to Disneyland but $35 for a week at Yellowstone. We can pay more for our natural treasures.

In Joe Biden, we have replaced Donald Trump with a more conventional and better-mannered embodiment of the same short-sighted thinking.

“This, too, shall pass” is a proverb that we remember during hard times, but it is equally illuminating advice for good times, too.

The fissure in U.S. politics also runs through Europe.

How socialism destroyed Venezuela’s economy and impoverished her people.

The more sophisticated method of creating money to spend is “monetizing debt,” i.e. having the government sell bonds while the central bank buys them.

Who says conservatives have lost California?

It isn’t black voters Harris is meant to court.

And the rise of something sinister.

Businesses large and small face crippling lawsuits.