New Year’s Eve gets people thinking about resolutions. Alas, when a year passes, a mothballed prosecutor finds himself thinking about the statute of limitations. As 2018 beckons, it has me thinking about Paul Combetta — the Platte River Networks technician who used the “BleachBit” program to destroy thousands of Hillary...
New Year’s Eve gets people thinking about resolutions. Alas, when a year passes, a mothballed prosecutor finds himself thinking about the statute of limitations. As 2018 beckons, it has me thinking about Paul Combetta — the Platte River Networks technician who used the “BleachBit” program to destroy thousands of Hillary...
Editor’s Note: The following piece first appeared in the December 18, 2017 issue of National Review.
At some point in the future, be it years, decades, or a century hence, the federal...
If I had to pick one of the most under-appreciated and under-reported stories of 2017, it would be that a post-Christian America is a more vicious America, and that the triumph of secularists is...
Cop critics who assiduously ignored the 20 percent increase in the national homicide rate over the previous two years have suddenly become enthusiastic purveyors of crime statistics. Fueling...
It started with ferries.
Lord Chief Justice Hale considered the question of ferry regulation in De Portibus Maris in 1670. Even if a man owns the land and docks on both sides of a river, and...
The cynical view of human behavior shared by two new movies, Phantom Thread and Downsizing, was to be expected. They represent the culmination of a cultural change that began as the 1980s indie...
The political year began with a development that I would have called virtually impossible (and, in fact, did) in October of 2016: the inauguration of Donald J. Trump, serial bankrupt, game-show...
'Impeccable . . . . The culinary and cultural journey Mr. Freedman has taken us on demonstrates the abiding qualities in our society ― its openness to new sources and sourcing, its diversity, its restlessness with the same old thing, its capacity for reinvention and assimilation ― all of which bode well for the future of America’s restaurants and its cuisine.' — Martin Rubin, Washington Times