Is the World of Journalism More Like Hollywood Than It Wants to Admit?

Jim Geraghty

At a recent gathering of conservative bloggers, a few of us joked about creating a “sexual impropriety pool” -- wagering on which public figure will next face accusations of improper or repulsive behavior. We concluded that too many of us had heard rumors through the grapevine to make it work; essentially every prediction would amount to insider trading.

Then again, none of us had Charlie Rose in the pool.

Eight women have told The Washington Post that longtime television host Charlie Rose made unwanted sexual advances toward them, including lewd phone calls, walking around naked in their presence, or groping their breasts, buttocks or genital areas.

The women were employees or aspired to work for Rose at the “Charlie Rose” show from the late 1990s to as recently as 2011. They ranged in age from 21 to 37 at the time of the alleged encounters. Rose, 75, whose show airs on ...

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When Virtue Carries a Cost

David French

Over the last few days, I’ve had a number of conversations with both right- and left-leaning friends about the political futures of Al Franken and Roy Moore. Without equating the severity of the...

The Founders Built Worse Than They Knew? Conservatives Rethink Free Markets

Ramesh Ponnuru

The Founders Built Worse Than They Knew? Conservatives Rethink Free Markets

Is Trump Restoring Separation of Powers?

Josh Blackman

Our Constitution carefully separates the legislative, executive, and judicial powers into three separate branches of government: Congress enacts laws, which the president enforces and the courts...

House and Senate Tax Plans: A Comparison

Jibran Khan

With the House version of the GOP tax reform passed and the Senate version approved by the Finance Committee, we are getting closer to landing a bill on the president’s desk. Once the Senate...

Use Tax-Advantaged Savings to Expand School Choice

Peter Murphy

The proposed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act currently making its way through Congress offers a unique opportunity to expand school choice in all 50 states — that is, unless the Senate blows the...

Why Do These Wars Never End?

Victor Davis Hanson

From the Punic Wars (264–146 b.c.) and the Hundred Years War (1337–1453) to the Arab–Israeli wars (1947–) and the so-called War on Terror (2001–), some wars never seem to end. The dilemma is...

March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 1

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

'The Red Wheel is a sprawling and fascinating mix of philosophical and moral discernment, literary inventiveness, and historical insight that sometimes strains the novelistic form, but is also one of the great works of moral and political instruction of the twentieth century.'
- Daniel J. Mahoney, co-editor, The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings

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