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December 25, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Merry Christmas to our Christian readers, and to all who are enjoying the holiday. I hope everyone’s holiday will be as blessed as ours. All six of our grandchildren will be with us today, and I need to sign off to start wrapping Christmas presents. Never let it be said that I leave anything to the last minute!
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December 6, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Yesterday the presidents of Harvard, MIT and Penn provoked outrage when, in the course of testimony before a House committee, they wouldn’t say whether a call for genocide against Jews would violate their universities’ policies. The blowback from donors and alumni must have been nuclear, as today both President Claudine Gay of Harvard and President Liz Magill of Penn released statements recanting yesterday’s testimony: Actually it was Gay who “confused
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December 2, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Last year, as many readers will recall, I was fortunate to have the privilege of appearing on C-SPAN’s “In-Depth” series, a two hour program where the host takes you through your entire corpus of work. Well, our podcast partner, and my frequent classroom partner, John Yoo was jealous, and is appearing tomorrow at noon eastern (9 am Pacific) on In-Depth. He encourages all Power Line readers to tune in, and
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December 1, 2023 — Steven Hayward
I was fortunate yesterday to take in part of a two-day conference at AEI in Washington DC in honor of Princeton’s Prof. Robert P. George (Robbie to his friends, but still “Professor George” to me and most other mortals), and in particular a retrospective of his early book published thirty years ago, before he had achieved tenure in Princeton’s political science department, entitled Making Men Moral. It set out a
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November 27, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Behold our current secretary of education, who couldn’t get anything more backward if he took LSD and tried really hard: Education Secretary Miguel Cardona: "I think it was President Reagan who said, 'We're from the government. We're here to help!'" Here's the actual quote: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help." pic.twitter.com/Hgxpt2Xdoh — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) November 27, 2023
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November 24, 2023 — Steven Hayward
A couple months back we reported here about how the woke media was concerned to discover that lots of young males spend a lot of time and mental energy thinking about the Roman empire, and this is obviously a gateway to racism, sexism, homophobia, and every other deplorable trait of toxic masculinity. The Washington Post dredged up Lewis Webb, a Cambridge historian of ancient Rome, to provide the necessary coda:
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November 24, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The Evangelical Lutheran Church In America, of which I was a member until recently, has become a left-wing political organization rather than a religious one. So what was the ELCA’s proclamation for Thanksgiving, a holiday that is intended to express gratitude to the Almighty? Yup, it’s a National Day of Mourning. No gratitude to God for bringing Europeans to begin new lives in the New World. On the contrary. (And,
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November 14, 2023 — Lloyd Billingsley
“Who you are and who you know yourself to be is valid. We want you to be your authentic self every day.” That was Andrea Palm, Deputy Secretary for Health and Human Services, in an official video announcing new HHS gender identity, non-discrimination and inclusion policy. Who is this Deputy Secretary, viewers have a right to wonder, who is so wise in the ways of authenticity? According to her HHS
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November 13, 2023 — Steven Hayward
When a bunch of bedraggled and unkempt hippie protestors in the 1960s paraded signs near Governor Reagan reading “Make love, not war,” Reagan responded with his usual biting wit: “Doesn’t look like they’re capable of either.” Behold the current equivalent of dissolute youth—you could hardly come up with a deliberate parody this good if you tried: The circle of life can be summed up like this: you’re born, you work,
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November 10, 2023 — Lloyd Billingsley
“Hymietown Revisited,” starring Eddie Murphy as the Rev. Jesse Jackson, recalled other sketches from a time when Saturday Night Live was fearless, funny and non-partisan. Favorites included, “White Like Me” and “Dukakis After Dark,” and another classic. “The Beverly Hillbillies,” with Buddy Ebsen, Max Baer Jr., Donna Douglas and Irene Ryan, ran from 1962 to 1971. The show was hard to satirize but on December 8, 1979, SNL answered the
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November 10, 2023 — Steven Hayward
The headline comes from a David Burge (“Iowahawk”) Tweet about this letter from Jewish students about events on campus at MIT yesterday: To all students at MIT, Today, Jewish and Israeli MIT students were physically prevented from attending class by a hostile group of pro-Hamas and anti-Israel MIT students that call themselves the CAA [Coalition Against Apartheid, apparently]. This is after students from the CAA harassed MIT staff members in
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November 8, 2023 — John Hinderaker
If Democrats re-nominate Joe Biden, the 2024 election could resemble the 1980 contest between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. Why? Because a large majority of Americans are worse off today than they were before Joe Biden took office. This CBS News poll illustrates the point. There is a lot of interesting information at the link, but let’s focus on what I think are the most important points. First, how are
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November 8, 2023 — Steven Hayward
I suppose this could be filed just as well under “News You Can Use,” but if you are in the mood for hunting wild hogs, you may want to keep this map in your glove box, or on a laminated card attached to the gun rack on your pickup:
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November 4, 2023 — Lloyd Billingsley
Folksinger Buffy Sainte-Marie got her start in the Greenwich Village scene and during the 1960s became an indigenous icon. In 1975 she showed up on “Sesame Street” proclaiming, “We want kids to understand that Indians exist. We really are real.” And as Buffy explained, “Cree Indians are my tribe, and we live in Canada.” That nation showered Sainte-Marie with awards, made her a companion of the Order of Canada, and
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October 30, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Ever since David Horowitz broke from the radical left back in the 1980s, he has been trying to warn conservatives that they don’t really understand the core principle of the left, and the depths of the left’s power-mad depravity. Conservatives too often think that the Israel-Palestine conflict, or civil rights, crime, income inequality, transgender ideology, climate change, etc, etc., are discrete issues to be argued against the left with reason
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October 26, 2023 — Steven Hayward
As noted earlier in the week, I was on campus at Berkeley yesterday to host a guest lecture at the law school from Hadley Arkes about his latest book Mere Natural Law (podcast forthcoming), but yesterday happened to coincide with the “National Walkout” in favor of Hamas called for on college campuses nationwide. I decided to take in some of the scene down at Sproul Plaza, the main site for
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October 22, 2023 — Lloyd Billingsley
On October 10, three days after the Hamas attack on Israel, Joe Biden said 14 Americans had been killed in Israel, but he named not a single one. As of October 19, according to the State Department, Hamas killed 32 Americans in October 7 attack. Joe Biden was recently in Israel but it’s hard to find a statement where he names any of the American victims. For the Delaware Democrat,
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