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Quote of the day | Power Line
I first became aware of Holy Cross political science professor emeritus David Lewis Schaefer at a 1974 event hosted for students over several days by a conservative organization at a college campus outside Philadelphia. I’m…
Quote of the day
Normandale College history professor emeritus Chuck Chalberg reviews Douglas Murray’s On Democracies and Death Cults for the Imaginative Conservative in “Israel and the Future of Civilization.” Professor…
Viral video shows Barnes & Noble with entire section for LGBT children’s books
Tue Jul 15, 2025 - 6:20 pm EDT (LifeSiteNews) – A video has gone viral exposing dominant U.S. book retailer Barnes & Noble for devoting an entire stand to LGBT books aimed at children. The video, taken by two…
Thinking about natural disasters | Power Line
When the flash floods hit Texas and wiped out the lives of so many beautiful young people, I thought of Voltaire’s account of the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 in Chapter V of Candide. The earthquake killed thousands of people.…
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Andrew Stuttaford is the editor of National Review’s Capital Matters. This is from his review of John Cassidy’s Capitalism and Its Critics in the May 17-18 Review section of the Wall Street Journal, which appeared…
Still funny after all these years
The title of Walter Blair’s out-of-print classic is unfortunately obsolete, but I believe it remains a useful work. Originally published in 1937 as Native American Humor (1800-1900), it was updated and republished in 1960…
MacArthur Park is melting in Karen Bass’s dark
ICE conducted some kind of sweep through MacArthur Park in Los Angeles yesterday. It was at the least a show of force in a hotbed of illegal immigrant crime. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass did not approve of the operation and…
The fate of humor | Power Line
Traveling today, I would like to continue what Chris Flannery has started in his posts on Mark Twain for us. I want to return to Mark Twain from the perspective afforded by the end of his career and the man who who taught me…
His Salena’s “Butler” | Power Line
David Garrow is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Martin Luther King Jr. biography Bearing the Cross and Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. He has also become my favorite reviewer in the weekend Beacon’s…
Chris Flannery: Mark Twain & Sir Walter Scott
Christopher Flannery is a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute and a contributing editor of the Claremont Review of Books. With the publication of Ron Chernow’s new biography, this is once again the season of Mark Twain.…
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