I had a distinctly middle-aged moment when I picked up the galley proof of Norman Podhoretz’s Ex-Friends. The publisher’s blurb on the inside cover says: “[T]his memoir of some of the key intellectual battles of the last 30 years offers a rare, firsthand portrait of the New York intellectuals—’American Bloomsbury’ as they have been called—by one of the few surviving members.” […]
Except that the Trump administration killed Direct File, the IRS’s successful free program.
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In the fight for the Democratic nomination in Maine’s likely pivotal U.S. Senate race, Democrats seem to face a choice between the reckless and the listless.
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From threatening Denmark to belittling NATO, Trump has strained the alliance, but his affronts—including berating allies for not joining his Persian Gulf adventure—are speeding a European future without American leadership.
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The Hungarian strongman’s electoral manipulations created a system so volatile that a modest popular swing wiped out his supermajority.
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His proposed 250-foot arch near Arlington National Cemetery is pure Trump.
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Strongmen are weaker. Integrity endures. Peace is popular.
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