May 2025

Plus: a history of misguided pollsters

What’s significant for the American left today is not what keeps communism going, but what gets it started

Moscow yearns to carve up the world. But it will be a world where everybody’s knives come out

The President thinks the lawless Somalian pirate state would be perfect for the Palestinians

Trump has redirected the mighty regulatory powers of the civil-rights system against his political adversaries

The death of the biggest Muslim democracy in the region should be ringing serious alarm bells across the free world

In contrast to her predecessors, the Press Secretary refuses to carry a binder of notes

Hypersonic missiles pose a grave danger to America’s most important weapons system: its aircraft carriers

George is a large gray kitten with disproportionately big ears and I didn’t plan for him or want him

Tim fought a rat in a local Pizza Hut – with onlookers watching through the windows

A crazed press are constantly looking for another Watergate

Elon Musk is driving the left crazy

The whole question fascinated the ancient Greeks

I like being married. I like the clarity; one side of my life is resolved

Earthquakes are usually more a Burmese or a Javan thing

The causes of our discontent are complicated, but they’re rooted in our drift from traditional values

It is our weakness which they most despise. Our frailty and fallibility

The MAGA set share the predilections and tax brackets of the people they criticize

The facts that we know in 2025 are almost exactly the ones that the Dallas police discerned within hours of the assassination in 1963

Biden’s crackdown led to a predictable embrace by Republicans

The firm stands free of the embarrassments of over-priced and underperforming programs that burden the record of legacy defense giants

People have been led to believe is that gender ideology is simply a culture-bound syndrome like anorexia, or a medical scandal like the opioid crisis

Men may be hardwired to use displays of technical aptitude as a status signal

Generative AI soaks up a huge amount of computing power – and it’s thirsty