F.H. Buckley
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Macron totally missed the point when condemning nationalism
French President Macron denounced nationalism and slapped President Trump at Sunday’s ceremony on the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Given the way in which the...
How a Democratic House can help finish the Trump agenda
So what happens next? We have two recent models for what presidents do when they lose the Congress or a branch of it. One model was Barack Obama in 2010...
Thanks to Dems and Trump, this year's campaigns mostly dodged the real issues
It’s been a stupid election. Stupid because, when we vote on Tuesday, the real issues that determine the outcome in 2016 will have been largely ignored. In 2016, Trump told...
Why Trump is right to fume at the Fed
President Trump is criticizing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for getting in the way of our recovery. “Every time we do something great, he raises the interest rates.” On this...
NAFTA 2.0 is just a warmup to Trump’s bout with China
NAFTA 1.0 wasn’t the terrible deal President Trump said it was, but NAFTA 2.0 is an improvement and, more importantly, it tells us good things about Trump’s skill at deal...
Justin Trudeau finally gets the trade trouble he deserves
If you’re trying to make sense out of the NAFTA negotiations, where Canada is suddenly rushing to avoid being shut out of a US-Mexico deal, consider this: With his insufferable...
Why the Alex Jones ban is no reason to break up Big Tech
The social-media giants — Facebook, Apple, Google — have ganged up to ban Alex Jones, and it’s gotten everyone in a tizzy. Jones is a hard-right Trump supporter. I don’t...
Why Trumpism beats Democratic socialism
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s primary victory in a Queens congressional race has been taken to signal a revolution in American politics, the emergence of Democratic socialism as a serious political movement. But...
Actually, 1968 said a lot less about America than 1969
Our minds fix on round numbers, and so we’ve noted that this is the 50th anniversary of 1968. We recall the protests, the assassinations and the riots, and ascribe a...
It's not Bernie who's holding the Democrats back — it's Obama
Politics has become so mindless I’m almost ready to watch soccer. On the left, Trump is the root of all evil. On the right, the pro-Trumpers mostly just repeat themselves....
What a good Trump-Putin deal would look like
President Trump will meet with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on July 16, and that gives rise to three questions: Should they be meeting at all? What are the non-negotiables for...
A smart way to trim the fat from the federal government
Last week President Trump proposed merging the departments of Education and Labor, and that’s got people thinking about reorganizing government. Any change would require the consent of Congress, which means...
Trump's trade war on Canada is just dumb
Team Trump’s silly fight with Canada over tariffs is igniting unprecedented blowback from our neighbor to the north. It’s unnecessary — and it misses the big picture. Start with Trump’s...
Americans actually like being the world's policeman
On Friday came the sad news that Charles Krauthammer hasn’t long to live. Long a fixture on Fox and in The Washington Post, he’s written his last column. But some...
The tragic end of an American car icon
Ford has announced that it’s going to stop selling sedans. It’ll continue to sell SUVs and its hugely popular F-series pickups, but it’s stopped producing its Taurus, Fusion and Fiesta...
How to make up for what schools have stopped doing
When I became a US citizen, I had to swear I would bear arms on behalf of the country when required by law. That didn’t much worry me. I had...
How the Left protects its campus cartel
You might have thought that America’s universities are hopelessly left-wing, progressive indoctrination factories where conservative speakers are routinely shouted down. If so, you’ve missed the real scandal, which is the...
The next push to soften parole: don't make them show up
If a parolee is late for an appointment with his parole officer, or if he looks like he violated the conditions of his release, he risks being sent to the...
When the president doesn't need to ask Congress before striking
Last week President Trump ordered US missiles into Syria. And he didn’t ask anyone’s permission to do so. That bothers those, like Sen. Rand Paul, who think Congress should’ve been...
Stay in Syria to block Iran
The successful allied air strike on chemical-weapons facilities in Syria has given President Trump a victory — but not a mission. The victory against Bashar al-Assad is a well-deserved response...