
		July 29 2019

What Manual Labor Taught Me

Michael Brendan Dougherty

Your food, your computers, and your government's arsenal of weapons are all cheaper or better because of little efficiencies that my father-in-law and men like him discovered in smelly places like that chemical-plant floor in Danbury. Read More


Top Stories

The Need for Foster Care Is Great, So Let Faith-Based Agencies Provide It

Kathryn Jean Lopez

Adults should not let their differences of opinion on social issues impede this essential service for children.

Two Cheers for Democracy

Kevin D. Williamson

My new book, The Smallest Minority, which will be published tomorrow, is currently the No. 1 new release in the "Democracy" category at Amazon. And it is a book that is about democracy — but it is not a celebration of it.

How Extreme Is the Equality Act?

John McCormack

It's reasonable to think that a bill backed by 2020 Democrats could force female beauticians to wax male genitals.

New York State Decriminalizes Marijuana, Expunges Conviction Records

Mairead McArdle

New York governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday signed a law that decriminalizes the recreational use of marijuana in the state.

A Free People

Daniel Johnson

A review of 'Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800–1906,' by David Cannadine.

American Movie Studios Are Wrong to Appease Chinese Censors

John Fund

To stay on Beijing's good side, U.S. filmmakers are kowtow to the nation's authoritarian regime.

Whither Evangelical Purity Culture? Thoughts on the Legacy of a Lost Pastor

David French

Repenting of his past legalism, Joshua Harris is leaving the faith, to which he did unintentional but great harm.

Is Biden Really Democrats' Best Bet?

Alexandra DeSanctis

Ahead of the second round of Democratic presidential-primary debates, former vice president Joe Biden shouldn't get too comfortable as his party's front-runner.

Al Sharpton: Trump Has 'Particular Venom for Blacks and People of Color'

Mairead McArdle

Reverend Al Sharpton fired back after President Trump accused him of racism, alleging that the president has 'venom for blacks and people of color.'


WHAT NR IS READING

The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics

Kevin D. Williamson

A dizzying tour through a world you'll be horrified to recognize as your own. With biting appraisals of social media, political hustlers, journalists and identity politics, The Smallest Minority is a defiant, funny, and terrifyingly insightful book about what we human beings have done to ourselves.

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