Rich Lowry

Every page of The Golden Thread is highly readable and brims with insight about the roots of Western Civ.

The will to believe the worst about their own country is very strong among these people.

Science fiction can be prescient, but we are not living in the plot of The Terminator.

Startling results are in from a test of teenage educational achievement around the world.

The former 49ers quarterback’s claim to fame is kneeling on the sidelines during some NFL games a decade ago.

Trump’s border czar was never waving the white flag on enforcement, and now he has the numbers to prove it.

President Trump’s tariffs aren’t popular, but he’s found a way to make them even less so.

Can we tolerate large-scale industry anymore?

Rolling back Flock won’t reverse this tectonic change that’s been decades in the making, but it will deny law enforcement a valuable asset.

His country is firmly within the China and Russia axis.

People in the U.S. with very low literacy make about as much as the average worker in the U.K.

Not only is this embarrassing, it is dangerous.

The most important movement within the Democratic Party is being infiltrated by actual Marxists.

That the United States would want a close working relationship with Israel on military technology is hardly surprising.

It’s true that Nolan modernizes the Greek hero for a contemporary audience, but what was he supposed to do?

The DSA has released a new program that calls for abolishing the Senate, the presidency, and the Supreme Court.

The socialist wave is less a proletarian phenomenon than a project of frustrated Ph.D. candidates and medium-grade professionals.

Trump has declared the so-called memorandum of understanding signed about a month ago a dead letter.

The Indiana Fever star has been treated like a virus that the league’s antibodies seek to reject.

His purported universalism is a pretext, a way to dress up his irrational animus toward Israel.

The intent of Congress was never to create an endlessly renewable de facto amnesty.

Trump is operating under constraints that routinely blunt his ambitions.

It’s not all about Trump. Democrats were less proud of the country than Republicans were even when Obama and Biden were president.

There is no reason to make an open-and-shut murder case into a race-based morality play.

Israel’s haters surely enjoy the perversity of accusing the Jewish state of the same enormity that contributed to its creation.

The Senate candidate is now backpedaling on statements about the nature of God, the number of sexes, and more.

The growing animus to these facilities is as irrational as the campaign to stop nuclear power.

The DNC autopsy is a thoroughly unimpressive, unfinished document that says more about the low state of the Democratic Party than any of its analysis does.

What the role most requires is luminous beauty, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with casting actors in roles that don’t match their ethnicity.

The stakes in 2028 actually could be existential.