Writing for Christianity Today, Russell Moore unpacked how the evangelical subculture rejected virtue, “driven specifically by the very same white evangelical subculture that once insisted that personal character—virtue, to use a now distant-sounding word the American founders knew well—matters.” He continued: “Part of the vulgarizatio...

MAGA Menace “[A]re you aware how much the constant threat of violence, principally from MAGA sources, is now warping American politics? If you wonder why so few people in red America seem to stand up directly against the MAGA movement, are you aware of the price they might pay if they did?” David French, who “has the receipts”: • Georg...

“I think I detest Donald Trump as much as the next guy, but Trumpian populism does represent some very legitimate values: the fear of imperial overreach; the need to preserve social cohesion amid mass migration; the need to protect working-class wages from the pressures of globalization. The struggle against Trump the man is a good-ver...

Of the Evangelicals who attack their fellow-Evangelicals for not supporting Trump enough: Is it their position that nobody of sound mind and morals could support a senile Democrat over a toxic narcissist with a documented history of sexual assaults who has promised to upend our treaties and fill his administration with Certified Sycoph...

“[T]rying to disqualify Trump through a dubious, convoluted 14th Amendment process after discouraging the Senate from doing so via a quick, clean, legally sound conviction mirrors the eternal shortsightedness of the Republican establishment in dealing with Trump. There’s always some other institution, and some other time, that’s better...

“Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt, and assume that Biden senses [that he’s too old and frail to serve a second term, and that his age and frailty are driving voters to Trump], but he feels trapped by his own terrible vice-presidential choice. If he drops out and anoints Kamala Harris, she’s even more likely to lose to Donald Tru...

“And so, goodbye, Donald J. Trump, the man who wanted to be Conrad Hilton but turned out to be Paris Hilton. Au revoir, Ivanka and Jared, Uday and Qusay — there’s a table for four reserved for you at Dorsia. So long, Melania — it’s still not entirely clear what you got out of this, but I hope it was worth it. A fond farewell to Ted Cru...

I thought “‘Clinton versus Trump’ has God’s judgment written all over it.” I wasn’t wrong, but I think He’s writing in bigger letters this time: “Doddering Biden versus ‘I am your retribution’ Trump who now understands the system a bit better and has plans to keep grown-ups out of the room.” Something like that.

Steven Calabresi has overcome my presumption that Donald Trump deserves every jot and tittle of every lawsuit against him. New York’s Civil Lawsuit Against Trump Is Unconstitutional. That still doesn’t make him POTUSworthy.

Trump famously said he could shoot someone in Times Square and get away with it politically. It now seems there are countless Republicans who’d volunteer to get shot, consider it an honor, and rise from their sick bed to vote for him.

Could I have been dogmatically wrong about Florida Man? “I have a different take on Trump’s behavior: Oppositional Defiant Disorder, which begins in childhood, explains most of his deviancy. The distinct feature of this disorder is the refusal to follow any directions requested by anyone. Those with ODD see an order or request as someo...

I've always liked the story with the punchline "What the hell is water?" But I don't think I'd ever read the full commencement address from which I got it. Quite good, with anticipations of Iain McGillchrist and of "pay attention to what you're paying attention to;" but David Foster Wa’llace’s way may be better.

“Lisa Borden is credited with the oft-bumper-stickered aphorism “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.” Maybe not, but I would counter that, if you’re not rejoicing, you’re not really paying attention either.” Eric McLaughlin, Christ Mirrors Back Our World

I implore my conservative readers to consider two ideas: 1. Donald Trump is unfit for the Presidency of the United States. 2. The Democrats (and substantial portions of the civil service) have treated Donald Trump very shabbily. For sake of argument only, I’ll include the federal criminal indictment in that. Now here’s the point, which...