Steven F. Hayward
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This is President Trump’s boldest move so far — even Reagan chickened out on it
Trump has now gone where even the Reagan Revolution feared to tread.
Don't fear a brokered convention: the 'smoke-filled room' could be Dems' boon
Instead of fearing the risks of the unknown, Democrats should consider an open convention as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to change American politics for the better.
Biden the political opportunist might sell out Israel to save his own hide
Biden is moving to sell out Israel, with a UN Security Council resolution calling for a “temporary” cease-fire and opposition to an Israeli attack on the last major Hamas stronghold.
Why Biden is losing to Trump in the polls despite a 'booming' economy
President Biden ought to be cruising to an easy re-election. But recent polls, especially NBC News’ this week, show him slipping further behind near-certain GOP nominee Donald Trump.
Firing Ivy League presidents should only be the beginning
The hypocrisy and moral imbecility of the three Ivy League presidents before Congress last week points to two deeper problems of university leadership today.
Will universities clean house of antisemitic profs? Don't bet on it
Our universities are so far gone and the number of professors deserving of dismissal so large that every school will shrink in terror from the controversies any housecleaning will cause....
Reaction to Hamas massacre shows it’s time to decolonize the campus
Nothing has so vividly revealed the moral rot of our elite universities as the reaction to Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre of Jews.
Biden's tall tales encapsulate the liberal mentality
By now it is apparent President Joe Biden is a special-needs child of political vanity. Nearly all politicians exaggerate or tell tall tales about themselves. It’s practically a requirement of...
Why are Republicans aiding the left in stoking racial animosity?
We should not be surprised Vice President Kamala Harris has attempted to play a new variation of the race card because it always works so well against Republicans. Her recent...
Some cold water for eco warriors: This heat wave isn't that abnormal
A heatwave this week in the northern hemisphere has set off the “climate crisis” cabal telling us that the end is nigh unless we hand over our car keys to Al...
The Unabomber is dead — but his dangerous ideas live on
Theodore Kaczynski’s homicidal rage and hermetic existence in a tiny shack that doubled as a bomb factory in rural Montana reminds us that the dividing line between brilliance and madness...
This Pride Month, it's the Revolt of the 'Normies' as Americans reject extremism
For American institutions that have indulged this extremism, perhaps we should say that Pride Month goeth before the fall.
Biden's indecisive Ukraine policy risks defeat and humiliation
The belated decision to provide F-16 fighters after months of refusal to do so is merely the latest Biden reversal.
Behind the left's utterly bogus bid to take down Clarence Thomas
The manufactured “scandal” of Justice Clarence Thomas’ relationship with philanthropist Harlan Crow unites two of the left’s chief bigotries today — a hatred of black conservatives and a hatred of...
My 'low confidence' in media's climate change propagandists
Question: How often do the major media ever mention the “low confidence” ratings attached to many findings in climate science? Almost never.
Reparation abomination would prove to be unaffordable and unfair
Today’s woke creed has replaced class conflict with race conflict, and pitting racial groups against each other for state-delivered spoils is a certain recipe for rising civil animosity that might...
Could eco-terrorists be behind the attacks on America's power stations?
One can’t help but speculate whether targeting the grid is the newest front in ecoterrorism.
Welcome to the ‘desperate housewives’ midterm election
The latest Wall Street Journal survey found that suburban women — a key swing voting bloc in the last three national elections — had swung a net 27 points toward...
How the media will get the Cold War wrong in covering Mikhail Gorbachev's death
Gorbachev’s passing Tuesday at age 91 represents the last link to that momentous closing chapter of the Cold War, whose peaceful end was nothing short of miraculous.
Out-to-lunch Joe Biden has the worst G7 summit since Jimmy Carter
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”