Tag: Viewpoints

The DeSantis vs. Newsom Duel

Commentary In recent months, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) have been crisscrossing the country. They are offering dueling narratives regarding the upsides of their own states while lambasting the downsides of their opponent’s states. Why are these two governors sniping at one another? Are they raising their national profiles…


Navy Needs More Shipyards to Meet Legal Requirement to Grow

Commentary The U.S. Navy has been struggling for years to maintain the production and maintenance throughput of its four government shipyards and approximately eight major private sector yards. The chief of naval operations, Adm. Michael Gilday, has established the clear, quantifiable shortfall. Until the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), two Arleigh Burke destroyers and…


Thinking Smartly About Climate Change

Commentary The following is adapted from a speech delivered at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar on April 24, 2023, in Irving, Texas. In a recent survey of Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries—i.e., all the rich countries in the world—about 60 percent of respondents said they believe that global warming will likely…


Chinese Military May Have Had COVID-19 Virus in Its Possession as Early as September 2019

Commentary According to the World Health Organization, there have been 6,947,192 confirmed COVID-19 deaths globally as of June 28. Of those, 1,127,152 occurred in the United States, making the number of Americans killed by the virus more than 19 times the number of American soldiers killed in the Vietnam War. And yet, over three years…


The Emperor’s Tutor

Commentary The following is a condensed version of “The Emperor’s Tutor” by Ralph L. DeFalco III, published at Law & Liberty. In 1988, Wang Huning was a well-known political scientist and professor of international affairs at China’s Fudan University. That same year, Wang embarked on a trip that took him to the United States as a visiting…


Republicans to Blinken: Act Against China’s Organ Harvesting

Commentary Rep. Michelle Steel, a California Republican whose parents fled communist North Korea and raised her in Japan, says it’s past time for the federal government to take action to prevent U.S. complicity or even assistance in China’s gruesome organ-harvesting practices. Steel and GOP Rep. Neal Dunn of Florida last week called on Secretary of…


The General Store That Cultivated a Community One Friday at a Time

LANSING, North Carolina—Nestled in the rolling farmland in Ashe County is a tidy white-clad building whose wistful charm beckons you to stop. It’s the kind of place you may only spot if you set your navigation app to avoid highways. And even if you’re trying to make good time down Silas Creek Road, you will…


Charity, Beauty, and Dedication Are Civilization’s Building Blocks

Commentary I was three weeks late from the peak of the season, but many of the roses at Elizabeth Park in Hartford, Connecticut, were still in bloom when I visited. The experience provokes deep reflection on core issues such as how beauty, charity, and commitment are so crucial to the good society. In all my…


U.S. Government Says Inability to Censor You Causes It ‘Irreparable Harm’

Commentary The U.S. government betrayed its total and utter contempt for the First Amendment in a recent filing (pdf) in the landmark Missouri v. Biden free speech case. The filing—a motion responding to U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty’s bombshell Independence Day injunction freezing federal government-led speech policing—calls for the judge to permit the federal government…