Al Franken Over the past month, 156 women stood on a podium in a small Lansing courtroom, microphones to their mouths, weights in their chests. Standing there, all eyes on them, they faced a monster — a monster many of them did not know was theirs to face. Larry Nassar, a once nationally-renowned sports doctor,...
Dear Editor, If you attended the 45th annual March for Life in Washington D.C. last Friday or somehow managed to hear about it on the news, you’d think the pro-life movement in America is going strong and gaining steam. But that’s just one side of the story. The reality is that there...
President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital by ordering the United States Embassy to move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Dec. 6, 2017. Despite predictions that Palestinian violence would explode with the president’s decision, Israel saw little violence as a result of Trump’s actions. I was in Israel over Christmas break and my...
The typical globalist passionately declares that the age of the modern nation-state is over and the age of a global political organization has already begun; the holdouts are nostalgic boomers clinging to the bygone era of national glory. Look at the state of the world today, they say. The most pressing issues — a transnational...
O, you who turn the ship of state and look to windward, consider liberalism, which has failed. In his new manifesto, “Why Liberalism Failed,” the Notre Dame political philosopher argues that the dominating political project of the past 300 years has always been doomed to fail, that a political and social order designed...