In July 2018, Commentary published an article by Yuval Levin that caused everyone who thinks about the balance of power among the branches in …
There are many things we don’t talk about. Some are too personal and would embarrass. Some are too painful to even think about and we fill our…
Sometimes the timing of events is so auspicious that it is hard to attribute it to coincidence.
It was yet another epic failure of political punditry. Go back to the early months of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign and read what the cons…
Remember the old sitcom "Father Knows Best"? While focusing on a father’s role to the exclusion of mothers is old-fashioned, most people agree…
For most Americans, conservatism basically means the stuff Republicans are for, and liberalism means whatever Democrats are for. I don't mean …
With the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration/death camp less than a week away, it’s still nearly i…
Here’s the scenario. It’s a Friday night slumber party. All the cool eighth-grade girls are there, and somehow, so are you. Things are fairly …
In recent days both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have carried reports on one of the most important geopolitical facts of the…
After spending so many years in corrections, law enforcement and the study of crime have always been a big part of my life. Anything that pert…
When the economy shows signs of weakness, Wall Street analysts expect to see what they call a "flight to safety." Investors sell stocks and bu…
In March 2020, the Supreme Court will rule on the constitutionality of Louisiana's new abortion law, which requires that physicians doing abor…
This is a golden age for “Theyism.” This is the belief that there is some malevolent, elite “they” out there and “they” are destroying life fo…
President Donald J. Trump was impeached on Thursday.
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After a very slow start, the news business in North Dakota is now making the digital transformation at warp speed.
North Dakota people have long been involved in the struggle for civil rights. On Monday, there will be a celebration honoring Dr. Martin Luthe…
When my friend Austin sees posts of my latest columns, he almost always texts me with some sarcastic variation of “what kind of fake news are …
There's an old story -- apocryphal, as the best stories always seem to be -- that Richard Nixon asked Chinese premier Zhou Enlai what he thoug…
The muted reaction of leading Democratic politicians to the elimination of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani reinforces my sense of what divid…
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Donald Trump is impulse-driven, ignorant, narcissistic and intellectually dishonest. So you’d think that those of us in the anti-Trump camp wo…
For now we seem to have averted an all-out shooting war between the United States and Iran.
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
The Bismarck Park Board is considering changing the name of Custer Park. The board is wisely taking its time on the issue, recognizing how com…
The killing of Qassem Soleimani, commander of the elite Quds force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in Baghdad takes to a new extr…
Americans are understandably war-weary and President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise of disengagement from the endless wars in the Mideas…
"The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history." So says my good friend, the distinguished historian Niall Ferguson. We a…
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