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Yesterday — June 3rd 2024The Corner | National Review

Will It Be a Majority Party or a Trump Party?

By: Noah Rothman · Noah Rothman
Sticking it to Larry Hogan might make for some lively cable-news segments, but it sure doesn’t get the GOP any closer to winning the Senate. 

Maryland governor Larry Hogan leads a news conference at the Government House in Annapolis, Md., April 23, 2021.

How to Marry Rich, Per TikTok

By: Haley Strack · Haley Strack
Parents should know what foolish garbage social media introduces to their children. 

Adam Mazen, 17-year-old Jordanian TikTok star, looks at his TikTok account on a mobile phone at his home in Amman, Jordan, August 25, 2020.
Before yesterdayThe Corner | National Review

Shockingly, Hunter Biden Isn’t the Most Responsible Ex-Husband

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty
Go figure, the stripper-impregnating deadbeat dad who deducted the money he spent on prostitutes as a business expense isn’t a responsible ex-husband. 

Hunter Biden walks with family members in Nantucket, Mass., November 24, 2023.

Princeton Blames the Victim

By: George Leef · George Leef
The university gives the benefit of the doubt to a Hamas zealot who harassed a student.

Fauci Admits No Evidence for Distancing, Masking Kids

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty · Michael Brendan Dougherty
Front and center in the 2024 campaign should be a debate about how to reform the CDC and other institutions that fund and regulate scientific endeavors.

Remembering a Crucial Supreme Court Decision

By: George Leef · George Leef
In 1925, the Supreme Court said a state couldn’t require parents to send their children to government schools. How would a similar case turn out today?

Why Welcome to Wrexham Is Welcome

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty · Michael Brendan Dougherty
Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney hired great storytellers to drive attention to their Little Engine of a Team That Could. 

Wrexham co-owner Ryan Reynolds signs an autograph for a fan inside the stadium in Wrexham, Wales, April 22, 2023.

Raskin’s Recusal Analysis Is All Wrong

By: Dan McLaughlin · Dan McLaughlin
Does the congressman think Mrs. Alito could be criminally prosecuted for flying a flag the wrong way? 

House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md.) speaks during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee impeachment inquiry hearing into President Joe Biden, focused on his son Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 28, 2023.

An Authentically Jewish Defense of Israel

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty · Michael Brendan Dougherty
What is the use of Zionism if Jews do not take seriously the scriptural, historical, and ethical account of their own survival seriously?

Biden Labor Department Suggests Ways to Help ‘Menstruators’ at Work

By: Madeleine Kearns · Madeleine Kearns
This is yet another reminder that the Biden administration has been captured by transgender ideologues.

Biden’s Black Voter Problem Continues to Rankle Democrats

By: Audrey Fahlberg · Audrey Fahlberg
It’s now almost June, and many high-profile Democrats seem to be in full-blown panic mode over waning enthusiasm among black voters for Biden. 

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D., N.Y.) speaks during the National Action Network National Convention in New York City, April 7, 2022.

U.S. Blasts U.N. Remembrance of ‘Oppressor’ Iranian President Raisi

By: Jimmy Quinn · Jimmy Quinn
Washington will not send any officials to a U.N. event celebrating the memory of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi.

‘Tobacco-Free Generation’ Establishes Age-Based Ban on Sale of Tobacco — to Adults

By: Wesley J. Smith · Wesley J. Smith
Expect this proposal to be adopted by blue states and resisted by red — setting up black markets and sparking another front in the great American dividing. 

A pit crew member  smokes a cigarette during the Indianapolis 500 race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Ind., May 28, 2023.

‘Swifties for Palestine’ Take Up Their Cause with Taylor

By: Haley Strack · Haley Strack
Concert-goers are upset, granted . . . just not enraged enough to do more than hold a sign in $9,000 front-row seats. 

Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards in Newark, N.J., September 12, 2023.

The Cat Is Out of the Bragg

By: Andrew C. McCarthy · Andrew C. McCarthy
Prosecutors hid in the tall grass until summation and are now emphatically describing Trump as having blatantly violated federal campaign law.

The War on Prices Heating Up

By: George Leef · George Leef
We are seeing a surge in new governmental measures to control market prices, as politicians get edgy due to inflation.

Defending NATO’s East: Building a Drone ‘Wall’

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford
The sooner the better, I reckon. 

A newly-built large screen and a stage in the Russian town of Ivangorod, is seen from across the river, in Narva, Estonia, May 9, 2023.

Terror and Courage

By: Jay Nordlinger · Jay Nordlinger
Notes on Ukraine and Russia, cont. 

A firefighter washes his face as he works at the compound of a printworks hit by Russian missile strikes in Kharkiv, Ukraine, May 23, 2024.

Sunak’s Campaign: From Bad to Worse

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford
The Tory party — the party of lockdowns, net zero, penal taxation, and social-media censorship — has shown itself to be a party of the authoritarian state. 

British prime minister and Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak holds a Q&A with the staff of a West William distribution center as part of a campaign event ahead of a general election in Ilkeston, England, May 23, 2024.

Demographic Conservatism

By: Mark Krikorian · Mark Krikorian
Wanting to change more slowly is the core of the conservative temperament. 

President Calvin Coolidge is seated at his desk in the Oval Office, August 15, 1923.

Smith Responds to Trump’s Absurd Lethal-Force Rant with Absurd Gag-Order Motion

By: Andrew C. McCarthy · Andrew C. McCarthy
Legally, there is no constitutional basis for a gag order. Politically, gagging Trump is the last thing Democrats should be doing. 

U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith makes a statement to reporters after a grand jury returned an indictment of former president Donald Trump, at Smith’s offices in Washington, D.C., August 1, 2023.

AI: To a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford
The story that OpenAI may have ‘borrowed’ the voice of Scarlett Johansson is not an edifying one.

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, speaks during a talk at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 5, 2023.

MBD: Trump’s Bronx Rally Might Be Remembered as a Genius Move 

By: Sarah Schutte · Sarah Schutte
‘It’s just a bad sign for Biden in that this is deep-blue Democratic turf that Trump is campaigning in.’ 

Former President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at Crotona Park in the Bronx borough of New York, May 23, 2024.

Voice of America Still Struggles to Report the Truth about Hamas

By: Jimmy Quinn · Jimmy Quinn
Why did the VOA temporarily remove a video for containing ‘debunked claims’ about October 7 that were certainly true and correct? 

Hamas fighters take part in a military parade in the central Gaza Strip, July 19, 2023.

AI Is Sexist, UN Women Claims

By: Haley Strack · Haley Strack
Technological ‘gender bias’ reflects certain realities.

The Problem of Central Bank Independence

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru
The Fed can be made more politically accountable while also being free from presidential interference if Congress gives clearer guidance. 

Council of Economic Advisers Chair Cecilia Rouse participate in a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 10, 2023.

Warner Bros. Deal with Chinese Propaganda Organ Spurs Bill to Ban Federal Cooperation

By: Jimmy Quinn · Jimmy Quinn
The arrangement fed into broader congressional concern that Beijing has exercised some degree of control over America’s entertainment industry. 

The exterior of the Warner Bros Discovery Atlanta campus in Atlanta, Ga., May 2, 2023.

Junior Enlisted Could See a 19.5 Percent Pay Raise

By: Luther Ray Abel · Luther Ray Abel
E-nothings rejoice. The FY25 NDAA promises to be the best thing to happen to seamen, corporals, and airmen since Zyn went on sale at the NEX. 

U.S. Navy Lieutenant Junior Grade Andres Andrade stands watch aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS <i>Carney</i> (DDG-64) during a transit of the Suez Canal, November 6, 2023.

Chinese Government Shocked to Learn They Can’t Trust the Taliban

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty
Chinese diplomats complain that the Taliban stabbed them in the back by failing to restrain terrorist groups that have killed Chinese workers in Afghanistan. 

Taliban fighters celebrate the first anniversary of the fall of Kabul on a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15, 2022.

Another Leftist Myth Exploded

By: George Leef · George Leef
Even if a few flaming hot leftist profs leave their jobs teaching politicized subjects, so what? They’re easily replaced.

Gallagher Thanks Communist China for Its Recognition of His Work

By: Jimmy Quinn · Jimmy Quinn
‘My only request is that the MFA send a formal sanction certificate so that I laminate it and put it on my refrigerator for motivation.’ 

Then-Rep. Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.) speaks during a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., April 19, 2023.

U.K. Contempt of Court Law Is in ‘Defiance of Open Justice’

By: Madeleine Kearns · Madeleine Kearns
And urgently needs to be reformed. 

Members of the media work near a large screen showing a picture of convicted hospital nurse Lucy Letby, ahead of her sentencing, outside the Manchester Crown Court in Manchester, England, August 21, 2023.

It Would Be Easier to Stop Worrying about AI If Its Apostles Weren’t So Creepy

By: Jeffrey Blehar · Jeffrey Blehar
Scarlett Johansson said no to Sam Altman and Open AI for good reason. AI’s capacity to warp us as humans should have us all worried. 

Left: Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 18, 2024. Right: Scarlett Johansson attends a press conference at the 76th Cannes Film Festival Cannes in Cannes, France, May 24, 2023.

Trump’s Veep Pick: It Won’t Be Pence Again but Could Be Pompeo

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty
While a third Trump-Pence campaign is unthinkable, Mike Pompeo would represent a Trump running mate for a turbulent world. 

Then-president Donald Trump addresses his administration's daily coronavirus task force briefing as  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence listen at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 20, 2020.

Which Palestinian State Have Ireland, Spain, and Norway Recognized?

By: Noah Rothman · Noah Rothman
These European countries called on Israel to abandon its goal of neutralizing Hamas in the Gaza Strip and submit to the prospect of future terrorist massacres. 

People attend a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Dublin, Ireland, November 18, 2023.

John Fetterman Is Right: The House Is a Circus Overstocked with Clowns

By: Jeffrey Blehar · Jeffrey Blehar
It has become the new Jerry Springer Show, right down to the kayfabe and the transparent staging. 

Sen. John Fetterman (D., Pa.) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., April 18, 2023.

ASU Sides with the Hamasniks

By: George Leef · George Leef
Over a verbal altercation off campus, Arizona State University professor Jonathan Yudelman will likely lose his job.

On the Resurgence of Protectionism

By: George Leef · George Leef
I’d like to add that protectionist policies are not really made to improve the economy, any more than gun-control measures are offered to prevent violence. 

President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump

McConnell vs. Orbán

By: Jay Nordlinger · Jay Nordlinger
In a blunt and significant floor speech, Senator Mitch McConnell took on the Hungarian leader, Viktor Orbán. 

Left: Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) in November 2023. Right: Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán in February 2024.

An Activist Indiana Court Botches the Meaning of ‘Sandwich’

By: Natan Ehrenreich · Natan Ehrenreich
In a brazen attempt to legislate from the bench, the judge ruled that tacos are sandwiches. 

Workers at a Subway restaurant in New York City, November 23, 2021.

Remember What’s Behind the Alito Attacks

By: Jeffrey Blehar · Jeffrey Blehar
It’s not about flags or beer. 

Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito poses during a group photo of the Justices at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., April 23, 2021.

It Turns Out Republican Voters Don’t Actually Care about Ukraine Aid

By: Noah Rothman · Noah Rothman
Perhaps J. D. Vance, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and their anti-Kyiv allies will take the hint and stop presuming to speak for voters they don’t appear to understand. 

Senator J. D. Vance (R., Ohio) walks at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., September 12, 2023.

Trump vs. Biden, in One Simple Chart

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty
If you look at Americans’ household net worth, adjusted for inflation, you see two dramatically different stories for Trump and Biden. 

Left: President Joe Biden  in Washington, D.C., February 23, 2024. Right: Former president Donald Trump in Greenville, S.C., February 20, 2024.

Mike Pence Used Alternative to IVF, Warns of ‘Ill-Considered’ Law

By: Madeleine Kearns · Madeleine Kearns
Pence and his wife struggled with infertility in the 1990s and have firsthand experience of the deep heartache it can cause. 

Former vice president Mike Pence speaks with reporters at a Pizza Ranch restaurant in Waukee, Iowa, June 8, 2023.

Examining the New Campus Fad: ‘Belonging’

By: George Leef · George Leef
The ‘belonging’ movement not only infantilizes young adults, but undermines the purpose of college education to foster inquiry.

Finally (Probably), a Dutch Government

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford
That Wilders’s ascendancy owes a great deal to the EU establishment’s handling of migration, multiculturalism, and, now, environmentalism does not seem to concern Timmermans. 

Dutch politician and leader of the PVV party Geert Wilders gives a first reaction as he meets with the press in The Hague, Netherlands, November 24, 2023.

Harrison Butker’s Grave Mistake concerning the Jews

By: Natan Ehrenreich · Natan Ehrenreich
Especially in today’s world, there is no place for falsely claiming that stating a belief, true or false, about the Jews will land one in jail. 

Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker speaks during a press conference at DFB Campus in Frankfurt, Germany, November 3, 2023.

James Buckley and the ‘Population Bomb’ That Never Went Off

By: Jack Butler · Jack Butler
The late Buckley countered the Malthusianism of his day and prophetically wondered if underpopulation might eventually become a bigger problem. 

James L. Buckley at the National Review Institute Ideas Summit in 2019.

Let Harrison Butker Be Himself

By: Dan McLaughlin · Dan McLaughlin
His opinions are outgrowths of virtues in short supply: faith, fidelity to the traditional family, and respect for the different roles of husbands and wives. 

Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker speaks during a press conference at DFB Campus in Frankfurt, Germany, November 3, 2023.

MBD: Butker Was Right to Affirm Masculinity 

By: Sarah Schutte · Sarah Schutte
‘Compared to the political speech we’re hearing out of Columbia University lately, I mean, this qualifies as . . . almost Abrahamic wisdom.’ 

Kansas City Chiefs' Harrison Butker celebrates with his kids after winning Super Bowl LVII against the Philadelphia Eagles, February 12, 2023.

House Ways and Means Committee Targets DOL’s Julie Su for ‘Serious Conflict of Interest’

By: Will Swaim · Will Swaim
Su ignored years of warnings from the state’s auditor that her Employment Development Division was uniquely vulnerable to unemployment fraud. 

Julie Su testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., April 20, 2023.

College Football Back in the News — with Lawsuits

By: George Leef · George Leef
Clemson and Florida State are suing the Atlantic Coast Conference to escape from their commitment to the conference until 2036.

Your Congress at Work

By: Rich Lowry · Rich Lowry
We need less stupid politics.

Race, etc. Quotas. Again.

By: Peter Kirsanow · Peter Kirsanow
The proposed American Privacy Rights Act of 2024 appears to give universities a green light to engage in racial discrimination under the guise of ‘diversity.’

The Biden (and Trump) Debate High-Wire Act

By: Dan McLaughlin · Dan McLaughlin
There’s a lot going on in the Biden-Trump posturing over debates. 

Left: President Joe Biden delivers remarks at an event in Fort Liberty, N.C., June 9, 2023. Right: Former president Donald Trump delivers remarks during an event at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., June 13, 2023.

Biden Says He’ll Debate Trump. Don’t Hold Your Breath

By: Dan McLaughlin · Dan McLaughlin
We have one candidate whose doctors don’t want him walking, and one whose lawyers don’t want him talking. 

Left: President Joe Biden holds a press conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, September 10, 2023. Right: Former president Donald Trump attends the Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee's 2023 Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., September 15, 2023.

A MAGA Faceplant in Nebraska

By: Noah Rothman · Noah Rothman
Nebraska’s populists did not reflect the will of the people for whom they presumed to speak. 

Senator Pete Ricketts (R., Neb.) is sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 23, 2023.

Pour One Out for David Trone

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino
He gave up his life as the wealthy owner of a chain of wine stores to spend $107 million of his own money on campaigns that didn’t go much of anywhere. 

Congressman David J. Trone (D., Md.) delivers remarks during the National Second Chance Townhall at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C., April 24, 2023.

Anti-Israel Campus LARPing Is Not ‘The New Jewishness’

By: Natan Ehrenreich · Natan Ehrenreich
Real Judaism does not recognize the existence of such things as ‘capitalist time.’ 

Pro-Palestinian students take part in a protest in support of the Palestinians amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza, at Columbia University in New York City, October 12, 2023.

Airports Are Not Public Goods

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino
American airports provide economic value to paying customers, like grocery stores and movie theaters do. They should not be government projects.

An American Airlines jet lands in front of planes backed up waiting to depart on the runway after flights earlier were grounded during an FAA system outage at Laguardia Airport in New York City, January 11, 2023.

The Biden Administration’s Commitment to Self-Sabotage

By: Noah Rothman · Noah Rothman
On Israel, the administration speaks not in one voice but in a cacophony of asynchronous soloists. 

President Joe Biden delivers remarks as he visits Israel amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 18, 2023.

Electric Vehicles: Ford Runs Down Batteries

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford
Less demand for EVs means less demand for EV batteries.

A Ford dealership in Alexandria, Va., July 23, 2009

In Chicago, the Most Predictable Civic Disaster in Recent Memory Beckons

By: Jeffrey Blehar · Jeffrey Blehar
We’re in a gloomy mood over here in the Windy City. 

Then-Cook County commissioner and mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson campaigns a day ahead of the runoff election in Chicago, Ill., April 3, 2023.

Welcome Signs of Humility at Marvel

By: David Zimmermann · David Zimmermann
While its executives are owning up to some of their failures, Marvel Studios has a long way to go before it can win audiences back. 

Chris Hemsworth poses on the red carpet at the premiere of Marvel Studios <i>Thor: Love and Thunder</i> at the El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles, Calif., June 23, 2022.

U.N. Vote on Palestinian Membership Could Prompt U.S. Funding Cutoff

By: Jimmy Quinn · Jimmy Quinn
The move would dramatically increase the likelihood that the U.S. enacts steep cuts to its funding for the U.N. 

The results of a vote to adopt a draft resolution  on a display during an emergency special session of the U.N. General Assembly on the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas at U.N. headquarters in New York City, October 27, 2023.

A Win for Civil Forfeiture, but the Supreme Court Is Skeptical

By: Dan McLaughlin · Dan McLaughlin
Forfeiture may have won the day today, but law enforcement should beware that the Court might seize it in the future. 

Law enforcement officers stand guard  outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., June 24, 2023.

The Truth Is Out There, Jamaal Bowman

By: Jeffrey Blehar · Jeffrey Blehar
The House Democrats’ greatest source of accidental humor has been on the conspiracy-theory beat for decades. 

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D., N.Y.) speaks prior to President Joe Biden delivering remarks on the federal government's debt limit during a visit to SUNY Westchester Community College Valhalla in Valhalla, N.Y., May 10, 2023.

Scotland’s New Leader Moves the Party to the Center

By: Madeleine Kearns · Madeleine Kearns
Kate Forbes, a Scottish politician who holds traditional Christian beliefs, has been appointed Deputy First Minister of Scotland. 

Kate Forbes speaks as she attends the SNP leadership hustings in Aberdeen, Scotland, March 12, 2023.

Who Knew?

By: Andrew C. McCarthy · Andrew C. McCarthy
Oh, so Stormy Daniels isn’t central to the prosecution’s case against Trump?

R.I.P. Boy Scouts

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty · Michael Brendan Dougherty
Scouting America, like all other organizations dedicated to progressive values, offers no compelling reason to join or maintain it. 

Trent Torres of Boy Scouts of America Troop 959 salutes after placing an American flag on a gravesite at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in preparation for Memorial Day in Point Loma, San Diego, Calif., May 27, 2023.

Cooke: If Colleges Are So Useful, Why Do We Need to Bail Them Out?

By: Sarah Schutte · Sarah Schutte
‘You cannot bail out an industry that doesn’t do what it says it will do forever.’ 

Students walk past Princeton University's Nassau Hall in Princeton, N.J.

Stop Greenlighting High-School Walkouts

By: Stanley Kurtz · Stanley Kurtz
When public schools abandon political restraint and impose ideological partisanship on students, it results in bias, pressure, manipulation, and division. 

Students stage a walk out from Hillsborough High School to protest after Florida education officials voted to ban classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in all public school grades, in Tampa, Fla., April 21, 2023.

AI, Graduates, and Jobs

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford
Questions about AI’s effects on jobs have not gone away.

Graduating seniors line up to receive their diplomas during Commencement at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass., May 26, 2017.

House Oversight Seeks More Briefings on U.S. Government Response to China’s ‘Political Warfare’

By: Jimmy Quinn · Jimmy Quinn
NR obtained letters sent to the FBI, the State Department, DOJ, and other agencies. 

Rep. James Comer (R., Ky.) attends a hearing in Washington, D.C., April 26, 2023.

What Holocaust Remembrance Means

By: Natan Ehrenreich · Natan Ehrenreich
Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day reminds us what the IDF is fighting for. 

An Israeli flag is seen near the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem's Old City, Israel, December 6, 2017

Tim Scott’s Gotta Make You Nervous 

By: Rich Lowry · Rich Lowry
Scott was okay on Meet the Press yesterday, but allowed himself to get cornered on accepting the 2024 election results.

If Trump Wants to Alienate Women with His VP Pick, He Should Definitely Choose Kristi Noem

By: Rich Lowry · Rich Lowry
If Cricket didn’t finish off Noem’s VP chances, her interview yesterday on CBS should do it.
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