THE IDLE AMERICAN: Uncle Mort on keeping up
The late Will Rogers claimed that all he knew, he read in the newspapers.
My aged Uncle Mort—whose routine includes puttering down the lane to...
ESTRICH: Something’s happening here
No one on the pro-choice side wanted Dobbs to be decided and the abortion issue left to the 50 states to decide, with all...
HART: Back to merit-based admissions
The Supreme Court, which is the only counterbalance to the bonzo Biden Administration’s policies, essentially got rid of “affirmative action” in college admissions. In...
STOSSEL: One man versus China
By John Stossel
This week, while we celebrate the work of America’s founders, I honor a living freedom fighter: billionaire businessman Jimmy Lai.
When Communist China...
SULLUM: A post-clemency prosecution shines a light on a broken system
A month before he left office, then-President Donald Trump freed Philip Esformes, a Florida nursing home operator who had served nearly five years of...
ESTRICH: Diversity without affirmative action
I’ve never been a huge fan of affirmative action. There’s something about objective standards — however arbitrary they may be — that gives kids...
TONI SAYS: Medicare’s magic words for enrolling in Part B correctly
By Toni King
Dear Toni:
I’m losing the battle with Social Security about me and my wife enrolling in Medicare Part B since I am losing...
CHAREN: How to read polls without terror
Experts will advise you never to eat meat with cream sauce at a buffet; always to lock your car even when just dashing into...
ESTRICH: What’s wrong with us?
Like most Americans, like people around the world, I was glued to the news about the five adventurers who went to the ocean floor...
THE IDLE AMERICAN: A life of service
Dr. Russell H. Dilday, Jr. — for 16 years president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth — died recently in Dallas, leaving...