From the commentary, "All this frantic smiling is branding, not emotion. Or as Nietzsche might have put it, "Man learned to ...

Bribery, inflation, plagues, crumbling trade links, stalled innovation — all these negatives helped bring down the once-mighty Roman Empire. But Rome needed centuries of bad leadership to collapse.

Bribery, inflation, plagues, crumbling trade links, stalled innovation — all these negatives helped bring down the once-mighty Roman Empire. But Rome needed centuries of bad leadership to collapse.

From the commentary, "That show of inconsistency was so crashing, you can't help but suspect Trump's motive was to even ...

From the commentary, "New York may seem a natural place for the man who, before becoming president, styled himself as Mr. New ...

Thanksgiving is the most American of holidays. But there is something almost un-American about it. It is a day opposed to striving, to getting more. We stop adding up the numbers in our accounts. We ...

There’s no mystery why Zohran Mamdani wanted to get along with Donald Trump. The president threatened New York City with funding cuts, deployment of federal forces and other unpleasantries if ...

The central scandal in the Epstein sex abuse ring targeting children is not the sex. It’s the children. What powerful men do with grown-up women — that is, females 18 or older — bothers me little. I ...