Donald Trump has reopened the debate on ius soli citizenship, or what people ignorant of both law and Latin insist on calling birthright citizenship. So much nonsense is being written by both sides of the question that it is probably a waste of time to say anything.
A conversation about the historical dimension of the Trump reelection: For all his real and terrible faults, he does not hate this country or its people. That makes him unique in my lifetime.
The People’s Republic of California, in its response to the LA fires, is a textbook case of globalism: To the citizens, it is always “easy to be hard.”
For a change Thousand Oaks is not burning. Our last burn in TO was the Woolsey fire in Nov 2018.
If a President Trump really hopes to engage in the gigantic battle to break the Deep State, to curb the dominant power of leftist bureaucrats and judges, his greatest obstacle will be the Republican party.
Refusal to fight may be cowardice and treason that darkens the soul of a single man, but the opposite mistake—an impetuous and reckless decision to make unnecessary war—may cost the lives of millions.
We have to deal with historical man, not the abstract man projected by libertarian economists, Marxist-Straussian theorists, or city-on-a-hill religious fanatics. Conservatives should always be on guard against the presumption that they have all the answers.
Every morning in Rome, I scanned the America news from my cellular telephone, and, as Donald Trump’s cabinet appointments rolled by, I felt as if I were watching a parade of freaks
An obvious defect of the U.S. national election system is it can’t eject an obviously demented president seeking World War III with Russia.
The day after Trump’s victory, a correspondent dropped me a note to ask if I agreed with a Chronicles contributor–whether current or former I do not recall–who told him that the country had turned the corner, and we could count on a counter-revolution that would fix the immigration crisis, restore law and order to the streets, and turn back the anti-human sexual revolution.
