Defying all expectations, America’s great economic renaissance is happening in the unlikeliest state of all: Louisiana. The Pelican State is going to host Meta’s new data center, the largest in the country, along with dozens of other projects that will create “47,000 potential direct jobs…
It’s a perfect, cloudless day here. The temperature is 78. Mild by recent standards. I was awake most of the night with intestinal problems. This is not at all unusual for me. As I have written lately, I used to have excellent meds for cruel…
At the onset of Penn State’s August Media Day, head coach Matt Campbell talked about how the Nittany Lions will approach the 2027 season and then quickly corrected himself in a Freudian slip of schedules. In his initial season as Penn State head coach, Campbell…
The recent news that total U.S. borrowing had broken the $40 trillion barrier has once again raised concerns about the country’s looming debt crisis.“There can be little question that [our] public finances are on an unsustainable path that will end in tears,” notes American Enterprise…
Two musicians from the New York Philharmonic attend a concert at Carnegie Hall introducing a young violinist from Vilna named Jascha Heifetz. “Kind of warm in here, wouldn’t you say?” one says, mopping his forehead and tugging at his collar.His friend smiles and says with…
One of the gravest evils facing the modern world is that of surrogacy. More than 100 years ago, Americans fought a brutal and bloody war that hinged largely on the issue of slavery. The purchase and sale of fellow human beings is an abominable practice,…
Exploring the murky depths of my laptop this last week, I came upon a provocative pamphlet from about a decade ago, perhaps.It’s provocative in a very good sense. The author, Dr. Tawfik Hamid, wrote passionately about the topic at hand, a passion that was palpable.…
Welcome back to the world of Mike Holman.If this is your first stop, here’s what you need to know: Mike Holman is the independent journalist, podcaster, and inveterate maker-of-enemies at the center of Scott McKay’s bitingly satirical thriller series — four novels (so far) chronicling…
Before the advent of television, and now other and far more intrusive forms of mass media, it was hard for slogans to get any traction. Yes, you might see a bit of parroting going on in newspapers, whose writers, under the pressure of daily deadlines,…
Mao Zedong, known as the “Great Helmsman,” was the most important founder of the People’s Republic of China. Nevertheless, after his death in 1976, the Chinese Communist Party tolerated criticism of his legacy. Even the CCP admitted that Mao had made mistakes, though it still…
The folkloric tandem of July and August ends, and relaxing September arrives. The September vacationer hates people but loves the places everyone else visits during the rest of the summer. They hate lines, outrageous prices, and crowded festivals. They like empty beaches, being able to…
By many indicators, American higher education is having its biggest crisis in the two-thirds of a century in which I have been involved with universities as a student or faculty member. The sector is very dependent on resources provided by its primary customers, students, and…
I have memorized Paradise Lost.When I was a graduate student, one of my professors, the courtly and mild-mannered medievalist George Kane, who seems now to have come from a lost world, told us of a neighbor of his when he was growing up on his…
Ukraine’s static war front has gone electronic. Even as news headlines focused on the dynamic U.S. air campaign over Iran, a threshold moment in military history was playing out in the frozen trenches of eastern Ukraine. For the first time, soldiers were surrendering to robots. Drone…
Suffice it to say, no one will ever mistake President Trump’s ability to respond on point to way-off-base critics.Take this latest headline from Fox News: “Trump blasts ‘treasonous’ munitions reports, says US has ‘far more than we could ever use.’”Fox reports:President Donald Trump declared Thursday…
The Department of Homeland Security announced 50,925 arrests of illegal aliens for August. The roundup amounts to the largest number of illegal aliens arrested in a single month in U.S. history. Those who headed for the exits included murderers, child molesters, and Milo Yiannopoulos.Has a…
During the course of researching so many books on Ronald Reagan, I’ve thought to myself numerous times: Wow, that would make a great movie.My colleague Mark Joseph thought the same. One day in 2004, he called about making one of my Reagan books a movie.…
Gloria Steinem died this week at 92, and this weekend I’ll bet you won’t find a single legacy corporate media outlet willing to print anything but hagiography about her.And that’s a shame, but of course it’s typical. The Left’s icons are forced down our throats…
The race for control of the Senate next January is a dead heat. Conventional wisdom suggests the contests in swingy states like Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina and Georgia could prove decisive. And they might.But it’s possible that the fate of the chamber known as the…
In addressing Jewish Democrats, Dana Nessel suggested that they should follow in the footsteps of their ancestor, Queen Esther, and “sacrifice the comfort, safety, and security, and even the very future of our own people” to support Abdul El-Sayed’s bid for the Senate. (RELATED: Abdul…
