by Karl W. Smith President Joe Biden has been traveling the U.S. touting a manufacturing revival that he no doubt hopes will help his chances for reelection. Unfortunately, there is […]
Author: Syndicated Columnist
How I conquered the pool at 37
by Zach Przystup The calendar may have flipped to autumn, but I’m still clinging to my summer’s crowning achievement: At the tender age of 37, I finally learned how to […]
Want a cure for cynicism? Dig holes and plant trees
by Colleen Kujawa I spent the last Saturday in September digging and standing in holes. I walked home sore, sweaty and happy. And buoyed against the naysaying that goes hand […]
Those campus rallies aren’t justpro-Palestinian. They’re anti-colonial
by LZ Granderson Abe Baker-Butler, a junior at Yale University, was working on an essay in the library on Oct. 7 when his phone began buzzing and wouldn’t stop. Israel […]
An early ‘October Surprise’
by Steven Roberts As the violence in the Middle East escalates, attention has focused, and rightly so, on the devastating impact the conflict is having on innocent civilians across the […]
Judge’s gag order on Trump may be satisfying but it’s not constitutional
by Erwin Chemerinsky Although I often wish that Donald Trump would shut up, he has a constitutional right not to. A federal judge went too far in restricting his free […]
Israel and Ukraine? It’s the same war on two fronts
by Jonah Goldberg In normal times, domestic political fights over foreign policy breakdown more or less along a conventional left-right divide. These are not normal times. The right is largely […]
House Republicans should stop following Netanyahu’s chaotic example
by Jackie Calmes A grieving and besieged Israel offers a warning for Americans, if only we’d heed it. Sound the alarm: When politicians stoke domestic divisions for political gain — […]
We’ve always known how to make good public schools
by John M. Crisp Let’s talk about school choice. But first consider this old saw: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and […]
Why don’t women make as much as men?
Economist Claudia Goldin has Nobel Prize-winning answers by Robin Abcarian An American woman has won the Nobel Prize in economics for her work studying the economic lives of American women. […]




