When faced with a major social issue or a crisis, Major League Baseball usually finds a way to do the right thing. It often produces a moment or a decision that transcends its circumstances.
Famously, baseball integrated before the U.S. Armed Forces. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, baseball took a respectful pause, and then resumed; Mike Piazza’s late home run for the New York Mets in their first game back gave many people in New York City a desperately needed emotional lift, a sign that life could be normal again. A Sunday Night Baseball game was in progress when news came down that Osama bin Laden had been killed by American special forces ...
When faced with a major social issue or a crisis, Major League Baseball usually finds a way to do the right thing. It often produces a moment or a decision that transcends its circumstances.
Famously, baseball integrated before the U.S. Armed Forces. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, baseball took a respectful pause, and...
‘Houston,” declared a Slate headline, “Doesn’t Showcase ‘America at Its Best.’” When a tweet promoting the article from the site’s official account went viral, and not in a good way, the editors...
The violent radical leftist group that goes by the Orwellian name “antifa” (anti-fascist) “is thuggish in its tactics and totalitarian in its sensibility,” as Rich Lowry forcefully put it in a...
Major bipartisan accomplishments in federal policy feel like a rarity these days. But it was just over 20 years ago that the parties came together to pass significant, positive reforms to our...
‘The Bard,” William Shakespeare, had a healthy distrust of the sort of mob hysteria typified by our current epidemics of statue-busting and name-changing.
In Shakespeare’s tragedy Julius...
In case you missed it, yes, Vogue has deemed Melania Trump out of touch for wearing a pair of stiletto heels on her walk on the tarmac to board the Texas-bound Air Force One.
But it wasn’t...
These days, when people ask me what I do, I tend to brace myself a bit, battening down the proverbial mental hatches. “Oh, I’m a writer,” I’ll say cheerily, warily scanning my new friend’s eyes,...
". . .gives the reader not only a new angle on the history of modern Conservatism but also more broadly makes sense of the rise of Constitutional Conservatism." - Fred Siegel, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute