HKO Political Thoughts 2024 10 24

Given everything that has been thrown at Trump- two impeachments, four major indictments and convictions, mass defections from establishment Republicans, widely brandished as a fascist, and a virulently hostile media- how is he still even close to victory? This is an...

DEI and Anti-Semitism

From Commentary Magazine, Campus Diversity Is Campus Jew-Hatred by Seth Mandel: By every metric, American Jewish campus life is a shadow of what it once was. The City University of New York is losing the last two Jewish members of its 80-member senior leadership...

2020 Election Questions

Was Donald Trump’s 2016 victory a rejection of Hillary Clinton or an ideological change? In The Great Revolt Selena Zito noted critical districts in the Midwest that had voted with substantial margins for Obama voted for Donald Trump with similar margins. Does this...

Information, Confirmation and Outrage

In Patriotic Grace author Peggy Noonan observed that the proliferation of news media has divided us. The growth in sources of information has not made us better informed, and certainly has not made us wiser. Low priced pocket computers bring the accumulated knowledge...