(Charles Mostoller) Further breaking of higher education to the saddle of the state is an imprudent objective. The earnest improvers at the College Board, which administers the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), should ponder Abraham Maslow’s law of the instrument. In 1966, Maslow, a psychologist, said essentially this: If the only tool you have is a

(Shutterstock) 2008—With opinions about to be issued concerning the en banc petition in Ricci v. DeStefano, Second Circuit judge Sonia Sotomayor and her panel colleagues—fellow Clinton appointees Rosemary Pooler and Robert Sack—evidently realize that they have failed in their bid to bury the claims by 19 white firefighters and one Hispanic firefighter that New Haven

President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the White House in Washington, D.C., May 16, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) I frequently disagree with The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer, but late last year he wrote a piece that should resonate with any person who’s been in the crosshairs of the MAGA right. A fundamental aspect of truly Trumpist political

Martin Longman hurls various forms of abuse at me that begin with a simple misunderstanding of a simple post of mine. I quoted Paul Waldman, who was arguing that a constitutional right is meaningless without the means to exercise it and so, if the Constitution protects a right to abortion, the government must provide funding

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks at her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill, April 4, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) This is just a game. Oh the games people play! So, Speaker Pelosi (a/k/a “Nervous Nancy”) says she wants to see President Trump behind bars. “I want to see him in prison,” the speaker told a group

Senator James Jeffords of Vermont announces that he is leaving the Republican party to become an independant, May 24, 2001. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) In addition to the anniversary of D-Day, June 6 also marks the date on which Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont switched parties to hand Senate control to the Democrats. The year was 2001,

At the time of the Roe v. Wade decision, I was a college student — an anti-war, mother-earth, feminist, hippie college student. That particular January I was taking a semester off, living in the D.C. area and volunteering at the feminist “underground newspaper” Off Our Backs. As you’d guess, I was … Read More

At the time of the Roe v. Wade decision, I was a college student — an anti-war, mother-earth, feminist, hippie college student. That particular January I was taking a semester off, living in the D.C. area and volunteering at the feminist “underground newspaper” Off Our Backs. As you’d guess, I was … Read More

As progressive states enact bills to legalize abortion up until birth, and pro-life states pass legislation to protect the unborn earlier in pregnancy, many observers think the Supreme Court may soon reconsider its holdings in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Democratic politicians, abortion-rights advocates, and activist groups like Planned Parenthood and NARAL insist that if Roe were

Some deem President Donald Trump so contemptible that it’s morally acceptable, even required, to suspend ordinary rules of civility toward him. I’m not saying Trump should be off limits; no one is, and certainly not the president of the United States. But it’s ironic that the very people who sanctimoniously condemn him for his supposed

President Donald Trump delivers a speech during the commemoration ceremony for the 75th anniversary of D-Day at the American cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer in Normandy, France, June 6, 2019. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) The president makes the case for national spirit, sovereignty, and strength on the 75th anniversary of the Normandy landings. President Trump gave one of the

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the introduction of the Climate Action Now Act on Capitol Hill, March 27, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that she would like to see President Trump “in prison” while trying to rebuff Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler’s request to open an impeachment inquiry. “I don’t want to

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., an advocate for a $15 minimum wage, returned to work as a bartender for one day. Ocasio-Cortez said: “All labor has dignity, and the way that we give labor dignity is by paying people the respect and the value that they are worth at minimum. We have to make one fair

North Carolina governor Roy Cooper (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) The North Carolina House of Representatives on Wednesday failed to override Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of the state’s “born alive” abortion bill that would have imposed criminal penalties on doctors who refuse to give the same level of care to an infant born alive during an

A man inspects a handgun during the National Rifle Association annual meeting in Indianapolis, Ind., April 28, 2019. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The Pennsylvania supreme court rules that legal gun owners aren’t second-class constitutional citizens. SCOTUS, take note. Earlier this week, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court delivered a message that the United States Supreme Court desperately needs to

President Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May hold a joint news conference in London, England, June 4, 2019. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) The run-up to Brexit is no time for political pettiness. As the U.K. moves toward breaking from the EU, the special relationship becomes increasingly critical. But Trumpian diplomacy, especially in the age of Twitter,

Both Republican and Democratic politicians want government to “do more” to give parents paid time off. “This is not a women’s issue. It’s a family issue,” says Ivanka Trump. “(E)very worker in America should be guaranteed at least 12 weeks,” says Sen. Bernie Sanders. “That’s a very arbitrary number! Why not 14 weeks? Why not

The columnist uses various analogies to try to justify exposing unborn children to lethal violence. All of them are inapposite. We would not legally require a father to give up his liver to save his child, or force people to donate kidneys to others who need them, because we typically value bodily integrity and autonomy.

(Pixabay) Euthanasia advocates claim it is “compassion.” But it is really abandonment most foul. A teenager, who was raped by two men when she was 14, will never live to adulthood or overcome the severe depression the attack caused. Instead, she was euthanized as a “treatment” for her anorexia, and severe PTSD. From the News.com.AU

This past weekend, Americans learned of another mass shooting, this time by an employee who decided to murder as many of the people he had worked with for years as possible. As of this writing, the murder toll is 12 people. Every American asks why. What was the killer’s motive? When we read there is

NORTH VERSAILLES, Penn. — Starr DeJesus admits she learned a lot about both the generosity of the American people and her own potential from an immigrant who spoke to her civics class. “I didn’t know it was just an America thing to tip servers,” the high school senior and part-time Denny’s server said. “We rarely

The Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pa. (Charles Mostoller/Reuters) Conservatives have long debated the conflict between liberty and tradition. Editor’s Note: The following piece first appeared in the May 11, 1979 issue of National Review. If you asked the average conservative, any time during the last few decades, to sketch a group portrait of his intellectual

After eleven rounds of negotiations lasting almost one year, China and the U.S. were supposed to be reaching the finish line this month. Instead, the talks collapsed amid American charges of Chinese retrogression, tweets from President Trump, and an emergency trip to D.C. by Chinese negotiators. Having spent much of my professional life in Chinese

John Dean, White House Counsel for President Richard Nixon from July 1970 to April 1973, poses in an undated photo. (Nixon Presidential Library and Museum/Handout via Reuters) Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee announced Monday that they will call John Dean, the former White House counsel to President Richard Nixon, as their first witness in

(Kacper Pempel/Reuters) Titillation and cruelty have become a business model for publications chasing clicks. Last month, a manipulated video circulated broadly on social media that made House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seem drunk. Vloggers Diamond and Silk made mention of it in a Fox and Friends segment. Rudy Giuliani mentioned it on Twitter. Shame on all

Workers load blue agave hearts into an oven for distillation to make tequila at a factory in Amatitan, Jalisco, Mexico, in 2017. (Carlos Jasso/Reuters) American consumers of tequila and tech could pay more. President Trump effectively opened a new trade war last week by imposing a 5 percent tariff on all Mexican imports — and

Pro-choice protesters in front of the Alabama State House in Montgomery, Ala., May 14, 2019. (Chris Aluka Berry/Reuters) It should come as no surprise that pro-life legislators are now standing behind an unlimited right to life. Advocates of laws permitting late-term abortion have pushed the boundaries too far by advocating for late-term abortion — essentially,

Sen. Elizabeth Warren makes speaks in Fairfield, Iowa, May 26, 2019. (Rachel Mummey/Reuters) The Left has endorsed a new form of corporate paternalism. ‘Corporatism” is one of the most misunderstood words in the political vocabulary. American progressives use it to indicate the domination of the state by business interests, when in fact it means something

Since she first stood alone in front of the Swedish parliament last August protesting insufficient action in fighting climate change, 16-year-old Greta Thunberg has literally become the poster child for a worldwide student movement. Holding a “school strike for climate change” sign, the then 15-year-old said she was refusing to attend classes until Swedish politicians

As tensions intensify between the U.S. and Iran, shady behavior by a rogue member of the Kuwaiti royal family is threatening to endanger America’s relationship with one of our most important allies in the Middle East. In recent weeks, a pro-Iranian militia allegedly fired a rocket that landed near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, and U.S. National Security