On Preventing War with North Korea

Jim Geraghty

In today’s Jolt, making the click-through worth your while: Trump’s critics forget how deterrence works, how Google radicalized New York Times columnist David Brooks, and why being an outrage-driven social justice warrior appeals to the lazy.

This is the last Jim-written Morning Jolt until August 21. I will return with either an awesome tale of an ambitious family vacation or just rocking back and forth and murmuring, “we’re never taking the kids on a long flight again, we’re never taking the kids on a long flight again.”

Convenient Amnesia on How Deterrence Works

This morning, President Trump tweeted, “Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely. Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path!” Unsurprisingly, this is causing Trump critics to freak out.

Begin with the assumption that we do not want to fight a war on the Korean peninsula. If we want to avoid that, we need to deter North Korea from taking any other actions that will be so provocative, they will require ...

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Polls Don’t Measure What You Think They Measure

Max Bloom

Another stupid poll has been making the rounds. Two professors, Ariel Malka and Yphtach Lelkes, claim to have found that 52 percent of Republicans would support postponing the 2020 election...

Immigration Is Mainly about Values, Not Economics

Max Bloom

Immigration Is Mainly about Values, Not Economics

Mueller Is Squeezing Manafort

Andrew C. McCarthy

The Washington Examiner catches some Trump Twitter intrigue: The president’s July 26 tweet grousing that acting FBI director Andrew McCabe should have been fired by Attorney General Jeff...

No, Conservatives Did Not Fire James Damore from His Google Job

Michael Brendan Dougherty

When you think about it, it was conservatives’ fault that Google engineer James Damore was sacked for contributing to an internal message board Google set up for soliciting ideas and feedback on...

The Francification of America: The American Le Pen and the French-style Realignment

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Editor’s Note: In a series of columns, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, a Paris-based conservative and Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, will write on an alarming trend, which he calls the...

The New York Times Botches a Climate-Change Story

Julie Kelly

If the day ends in a y, the New York Times will run at least one breathless, apocalyptic story about how man-made climate change is destroying the planet and the future of our children. The...

The Golden Pelican: A Novel

Gene Helveston

'The timeliness of The Golden Pelican blurs the distinction between fiction and real-time news. Helveston paints a scary scenario with a compelling plot, likable and despicable characters, and the right amount of CIA background information to make it understandable and suspenseful.' - Edward O’Malley

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