Rich Lowry
opinionFebruary 10, 2021
Are the classics racist?It was only a matter of time before Cicero got canceled. The New York Times the other day profiled Princeton classicist Dan-el Padilla Peralta, who wants to destroy the study of classics as a blow for racial justice. The critique of classics as stultifying and priv...opinionFebruary 8, 2021
Don't quit on the GOPAfter losing a national election, it's natural that a political party goes through a period of soul-searching and internal turmoil. The Republican Party, though, has taken it to another level. President Donald Trump brought most of the GOP along for the ride during...opinionFebruary 3, 2021
Joe Biden's left-wing startJoe Biden is off to the most left-wing start of any Democratic president in recent memory. The dulcet tones of Biden's inaugural address already seem an artifact of a bygone era. Republicans will hammer him for the rest of his presidency for failing to deliver on h...opinionFebruary 1, 2021
Congress bows to the pen and the phonePresident Joe Biden has proved that, if nothing else, he has a pen and a phone.
According to The Economist, he signed more executive orders in his first two days than President Donald Trump signed in nearly his first two months.
And he was just getting started...opinionJanuary 27, 2021
'Free speech for me, but not for thee'Long a stalwart defender of the First Amendment, the American media is now having second thoughts. For decades, it was a commonplace sentiment among journalists that freedom of the press was one of the glories of our system. It helped to make the government account...opinionJanuary 25, 2021
No, there won't be unityInaugural addresses are meant to be aspirational, so President Joe Biden might as well have doubled down on his call for unity in his address.
After the events of Jan. 6, there’s much to be said for more unity, or at least less poisonous division, and Biden’s empha...opinionJanuary 22, 2021
Joe Biden wrong on Keystone XL pipelinePoor Justin Trudeau. The Canadian prime minister must have been relieved to be done with President Donald Trump, only to learn that Joe Biden plans to tell Canada to pound sand as one of his first priorities. Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline immediately, a p...opinionJanuary 13, 2021
Twitter deranged our politicsDonald Trump was the president of Twitter. What radio was to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and TV was to Ronald Reagan, communicating 280 characters at a time on a social media platform that is a watchword for hyperactive inanity was to President Donald Trump...opinionJanuary 11, 2021
Trump's disgusting codaThere’s a reason we expect presidents of the United States to say that they support the peaceful transfer of power.
Donald Trump has never committed to it, and we saw the bitter fruit on Wednesday afternoon when, shockingly, pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capit...opinionJanuary 6, 2021
Trump's shameful Georgia callPresident Donald Trump has turned a narrow electoral defeat into a bid for infamy. His goal in the postelection interlude has been more and more explicitly to overturn the results of the election. Indeed, a couple of weeks ago he tweeted simply, "#OVERTURN."...Don't miss the news !Get our daily emails with the latest news
