JOURNALISM
The Resurrection of Donald J. Trump
Trump’s victory is a blow to political lawfare, critical race theory, woke campuses, legacy media, and Hollywood. It’s a win for a new generation of builders like Elon Musk.
Israel’s Iran Strike - And America’s Strategic Weakness
Once again, Israel appears to have ignored Washington’s advice. Once again, that decision has paid off.
My Journey from a Jerusalem of Ghosts to the Living Jerusalem
To make proper sense of the bloody events of the past 12 months in the Middle East, I had to go to Vilnius. That may strike you as bizarre, as Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania and roughly 1,600 miles from Tel Aviv. But Vilnius was once “the Jerusalem of the North”—that’s what Napoleon called it when he passed through in 1812.
Germany, Rearm!
There might be something scarier than German power. That’s German weakness in this dangerous moment for Europe—and the free world.
“I will probably be the first British historian in history to say this, but here it is: I fear German power less than I am beginning to fear its inactivity,” writes Niall Ferguson for The Free Press.
The Return of Anti-History
Podcasts are not reviving history, as is often claimed these days. They are mostly drowning it in a tidal wave of blather, at best sloppy, at worst mendacious.
Pano Kanelos with Niall Ferguson: A Revolution Begins in Austin, Texas
Three years ago, the University of Austin was announced in these pages. Yesterday, the school welcomed the class of 2028. This is what the president told them.
The ‘Barbenheimer’ Election
While Kamala Harris runs a campaign of unsurpassed vacuousness, on the other screen we have the dark, fissile energy of Donald Trump.
Welcome to Pandemonium
What the hell just happened to the market? This wasn’t the reaction to an underwhelming U.S. jobs report. This is something bigger.
A Shot at the President—And the Turn of History
Assassinations have often changed the course of a country. Would that have happened if the shooter had slightly better aim?