The President's Achy Breaky Heart

Jim Geraghty

Making today’s click-through worthwhile: the strangely irrelevant controversy about the president’s health, a misleading headline about how corporate America is responding to tax reform, and the danger of giving 22-year-olds access to a wide audience without editors or wiser mentors.

An Odd National Debate About the President’s Non-Metaphorical Heart

The New York Times talks to cardiologists who contend that Dr. Ronny L. Jackson, a rear admiral and the White House physician, was way too optimistic in his assessment of the president’s health.

Cardiologists not associated with the White House said Wednesday that President Trump’s physical exam revealed serious heart concerns, including very high levels of so-called bad cholesterol, which raises the risk that Mr. Trump could have a heart attack while in office.

What exactly are we supposed to do with these disputing interpretations of the president’s health information?

Look, the thing about health, ...

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Cory Booker’s Rant Exposed the Left’s Gender Hypocrisy

David French

This summer, I learned a new term. I’d heard of “mansplaining” and “manspreading.” But “manterrupting” was new to me. I’m sure you’ll be shocked to learn that in two different hearings, male...

Germany Must Meet Its Obligation to NATO

Charles V. Peña

Germany Must Meet Its Obligation to NATO

Three Billboards Meets Backlash

Theodore Kupfer

Editor’s note: This piece contains plot spoilers. People liked Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, at least at first. Written and directed by Martin McDonagh, the movie grossed a tidy...

One man’s coaches, &c.

Jay Nordlinger

Like most guys named Stan, Stan Van Gundy is sometimes called “Stan the Man” — by Clyde Frazier, for example — and he is certainly my man. Van Gundy is the coach of the Detroit Pistons, which is...

Real Message of #Metoo: The Sexual Revolution Has Not Been Kind to Women

Mona Charen

The feminist website Babe published an account of a date gone bad. The pushback has been swift and sharp. I share some of the concerns of the critics, but I also think young women are sending a...

The Trillion-Dollar Chameleon

Victor Davis Hanson

Twenty years ago, no one had heard of either Facebook or Google, neither of which existed yet. For that matter, no one knew much about social media or search engines in general. Cell phones...

Northern Armageddon: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Making of the American Revolution

D. Peter MacLeod

"Definitive . . . superb in its combination of individual perspective and strategic narrative . . . This book tells us – brilliantly – both how the battle was fought, and what it meant."
- Eliot A. Cohen, author of Conquered into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles Along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War

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